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citivolus

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Sad face. Wonder if this will be enabled via hardware in the new iPhone this year.
 

macduke

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Jun 27, 2007
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Honestly I would just take a higher success rate over horizontal scanning at this point. But I'd think scanning from different angles would help improve the overall scanning reliability.
 

citivolus

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That won’t be the beta because the only reason to have FaceID in landscape is the iPads and thus including it would be a huge leak before the hardware is announced.
Well I definitely have a need to use FaceId in landscape mode with my iPhone X. Whenever my phone is in my car cradle it is in landscape mode and I have to take it out of the cradle to unlock it.
 

dk001

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Oct 3, 2014
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The dot matrix is as far as I know hardware driven, not software driven, When I was testing the X, I tried different orientations and only the expected vertical upright orientation was successful.
 

BlankStar

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Aug 13, 2004
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Why would they be leaking new hardware? We all know FaceID is coming to the new iPads one way or another.

As stated above, I would like my iPhone X to unlock in landscape, for example in the car.
 

rjp1

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Dang, I was hoping this was coming to the X. I just assumed it was when I heard them mention it for iPad.
 

JPack

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That won’t be the beta because the only reason to have FaceID in landscape is the iPads and thus including it would be a huge leak before the hardware is announced.

It's already been leaked.

The clock on iOS 12 beta has moved to the side for iPad, leaving a wide open space for a notch. Also, developers have found references to Face ID Unlock on iPad.

More than likely, horizontal Face ID only works on Face ID 2.0 hardware coming this fall.
 

MistrSynistr

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May 15, 2014
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Apple will seriously use this as a "feature" in an upcoming model. Tech has stalled so much that things that should simply be a given will now be features. I mean, Memoji? Like they couldn't of added that with Animojis? Face ID was touted as a feature. It's a way to unlock your phone, that takes as long as Touch ID. lol.
 
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