It still required to do its thing, whether if it takes a millisecond or a 5 seconds. FaceID doesn't work by you just looking at the screen while it's chilling on a desk. That's what some of us expected with FaceID.
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iPhone X Face ID is Preventing Me From Buying an iPhone X - Anyone Else?
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It still required to do its thing, whether if it takes a millisecond or a 5 seconds. FaceID doesn't work by you just looking at the screen while it's chilling on a desk. That's what some of us expected with FaceID.
Only if iPhone X included the home button. Could had easily add a little bezel on the bottom with a small rectangular button. I would had been ecstatic. Instead, we get feature removal in touch ID and in the case of iphone 7, headphone jack removal and a price increase on top of everything. Really kills the excitement. Face ID can certainly come in handy in many situations but removing touch id is not the answer. Removing the home button means relearning ios all over again. Wonder how many people would instinctively reach for the home button instead of swiping up. Face ID only - meh, Face ID and Touch ID - WINNER!!!
The more the merrier! Less people for me to struggle with when I preorder.
And Craig laid out exactly why that’s a problematic approach:
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2017/09/15/ep-200
I suggest you give it a listen.
Idc what Craig has to say. I already told you many times that if it doesn't work like Samsung or LG, I am not interested.
“The TrueDepth camera automatically looks for your face when you wake iPhone X by raising it or tapping the screen, as well as when iPhone X attempts to authenticate you to display an incoming notification or when a supported app requests Face ID authentication. When a face is detected, Face ID confirms attention and intent to unlock by detecting that your eyes are open and directed at your device”
This from the white paper on Face ID released by Apple.
https://images.apple.com/business/docs/FaceID_Security_Guide.pdf
Not worth the listen, it's a very superficial discussion.
The fundamental difference between Touch ID and Face ID is that your fingers are quite mobile and agile and your face is not. You can move your finger 3 feet away from your body to an off-angle orientation and still hit your phone to unlock it but you can't move your face in the same manner. So instead of sending your finger on a trip to unlock a phone, you are now sending your phone on a trip to your face. This is far from convenient, unless of course you have a 3 foot long neck.
As an anesthesiologist I'm wearing a surgical mask a lot of the time when at work, and I assume Face ID won't work with that since it covers my nose and mouth. It would be annoying to have to remove the mask every time I want to unlock the phone. I don't want to go to Android, but if Touch ID doesn't come back next year, I might have to..
Speaking for myself, when you need to be wearing a surgical mask I hope you won’t be anywhere near your phone.
Someone who hates TouchID...ok.
So I'm assuming many times you press the home button and it's not detecting a match to your fingerprint.
Are your fingers greasy or sweaty a lot?
If we eliminate those issues, the problem lies in the orientation of the finger when you set up TouchID.
The key when registering your fingerprint is not to hold your finger at 0° offset.
TouchID works better when the finger at least 30-45°. My thumbprint is registered at nearly 80°.
TouchID works 100% of the time for me. I kid you not! And I unlock my phone constantly because I run it exclusively in low-power mode.
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It not being available for preorder yet is preventing me from buying the iPhone X. 
Okay. Now that I got the smartassery out of the way, I have to say I don't really like having IR dots beamed at my face. It all may be perfectly safe but the iris scanner light hurts the heck out of my eyes so I stopped using it on my Samsung. So I'm not super thrilled about anything remotely similar on the iPhone. However I hope it will be far less obnoxious on the iPhone. It's not really trying to scan my iris, after all. Oh well maybe we will all luck out and find that the dots erase wrinkles. The new Age-Defying iPhone!
I think my biggest reservation at the moment is that I can't preorder an unlocked version.
My next smaller reservation comes from the whole iPhone 8/8 Plus line having some phones plagued with the clicks and crackles. I had hoped that with the familiar form factor there would be no odd rude surprises like that, but apparently such things are inescapable. Iphone X will be a whole new ballgame. I don't mind spending a lot of money on an iPhone but I already sort of beta tested Samsung phones two seasons in a row. I'd kind of like to settle down and have it all just work.
And heck, right now my trusty IPhone 7 Plus is having some hiccups on iOS 11. The battery life plummeted. I ended up with a dead battery by dinner time for the first time in...ever. I'm down to 65% and I barely used the phone today. That's not typical for my IPhone.
I'm glad the preorder date is still weeks away. I'm not ready to make this decision yet.
Okay. Now that I got the smartassery out of the way, I have to say I don't really like having IR dots beamed at my face. It all may be perfectly safe but the iris scanner light hurts the heck out of my eyes so I stopped using it on my Samsung. So I'm not super thrilled about anything remotely similar on the iPhone. However I hope it will be far less obnoxious on the iPhone. It's not really trying to scan my iris, after all. Oh well maybe we will all luck out and find that the dots erase wrinkles. The new Age-Defying iPhone!
I think my biggest reservation at the moment is that I can't preorder an unlocked version.
My next smaller reservation comes from the whole iPhone 8/8 Plus line having some phones plagued with the clicks and crackles. I had hoped that with the familiar form factor there would be no odd rude surprises like that, but apparently such things are inescapable. Iphone X will be a whole new ballgame. I don't mind spending a lot of money on an iPhone but I already sort of beta tested Samsung phones two seasons in a row. I'd kind of like to settle down and have it all just work.
And heck, right now my trusty IPhone 7 Plus is having some hiccups on iOS 11. The battery life plummeted. I ended up with a dead battery by dinner time for the first time in...ever. I'm down to 65% and I barely used the phone today. That's not typical for my IPhone.
I'm glad the preorder date is still weeks away. I'm not ready to make this decision yet.
Your comment above details what I'd call "sunglasses mode" where you can disable Face ID's need to see your eyes for authentication.
It does not address "flat on a table" mode where the sensors are pointed directly at the ceiling and one is sitting at a 90 degree angle to the sensors. I don't see how an iPhone X lying on a conference table is going to see my face from 3 feet away at a very sharp angle. From all I've seen of people using the X both at the keynote and at the postgame events, it has to be held up as if you're taking a selfie.
people are too lazy to pick up their phone now? we are slowly approaching wall-e levels here.
Me, I use TouchID for everything except to unlock my phone. I have no problem entering my passcode many times a day
Ok...so you choose not to use TouchID?
From what you wrote...it's because you want more security by having to enter the passcode.
Perfectly understandable.