Works much better than touch ID for me. So much easier to just grab your phone and unlock. Makes notifications better I think. I like how it works with passwords, logins and apple pay.
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Face ID in iPhone X vs. 'Face Unlock' Facial Recognition in OnePlus 5T
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Face ID rocks. The overwhelming majority of the time, it recognizes me by the time I pick up the phone and focus my attention on the screen. I tried to fool it by putting on big glasses and draping a towel over my head, and it works fine. Now I'm spoiled and the Touch ID on my iPad seems antiquated. I've also quickly adapted to the new gestures, to the point where the same tasks on the Touch ID device seem slow and clunky.
So you are laying in bed, face half snuggled down into the pillow, you reach across to the table next to your bed, holding the phone and it unlocks perfectly?
Literally within a few hours of my iPhone X arriving at my door, a massive brushfire broke just a few miles from my home (you might have seen something about this on the news). Anyway I immediately got a chance to find out if FaceID worked in the dark with a bandana covering the lower half of my face. Not all the time. What were they thinking? This is completely unacceptable! I am returning it immediately!
I completely agree - the gestures on iPhone X are significantly more natural feeling than pressing a button to perform actions. And Face ID is great - it works, i'd say 85% of the time on the first try (that being immediately touching the phone to wake it up), and if for some reason it doesn't get a great view of my face, but the time I've swiped it figures out it's me and opens up, bringing to usable success rate to 95% of the time.
The primary instances where I notice Face ID not working are:
- When mounted in my car, i'm off to the side (and sitting back) of the phone quite a bit, and it struggles to recognize me.
- When I'm laying in bed with my face half-covered by a pillow.
What do you expect when you compare it to a phone that costs half as much using a face unlock feature that's declared a convenience. Do a proper comparison against:
- Iris scanner
- Windows Hello with IR depth sensing and Iris scanner
- Iris scanner
- Windows Hello with IR depth sensing and Iris scanner
Not even remotely related regardless. Two different forms of biometric security. Face ID uses a 3D render scan of the users Face, which can't be hacked by a photograph. Iris scanning uses 2D.
Furthermore, in the world of security, Faster isn't sequential to having a better form of security, accuracy and encryption are.
Except it hasn’t been fooled.
Just a bunch of phonies looking for their 15 minutes of fame making unsubstantiated claims.
Let me know when someone posts a full beginning-to-end video of FaceID getting hacked. If they don’t, then nothing they say can be taken seriously.
A lot easier than that. You just need an image of the eye, which there are a ton of eye pictures out there. Government agencies require eye scans when you enter the country.
Love FaceID but it does have more steps to confirm a purchase w/Apple Pay or iTunes. I guess because, you're already looking at your phone so it wants to confirm that you actually want to pay/buy and not just looking at your phone accidentally. Makes sense.
Other than that, no issues. Occasional failure because I blocked the camera or the way I am sleeping and have the phone close to my face because I just woke up.
Other than that, no issues. Occasional failure because I blocked the camera or the way I am sleeping and have the phone close to my face because I just woke up.
Is there any way to have the apparatus rotate inside the notch when the iPad/iPhone is rotated?
Facial unlock on the S8/Note 8 and the Iris scanning are different things altogether.
Who would have thought how you unlock your phone would be one of the primary reasons for buying the phone. When I purchased my home one of the first things I looked for was how to unlock the doors!
It's quite well documented by Apple that this is how Face ID adapts to rapid changes in the face.
If Face ID were to fail at recognizing you and you enter your passcode after, if your face isnt too dissimilar, Face ID takes that information and meshes it with the existing face data to get a better read the next time or to help in situational settings.
This... and its remarcable how many people think they need Fort Knox level encryption on their phones, as if they are walking around with secrets of the world in there...
When you shopped for your home did you pick a neighborhood you thought was secure?
If you're referring to the Chaos Computer club fooling it with a dummy eye thats not much different to FaceID being spoofed with a mask is it?