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Face ID Unlocks an iPhone More Slowly Than Touch ID, but is Faster in Day-to-Day Usage
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It may be faster for responding to notifications, but it can’t be anything but slower for starting an app, since TouchID takes 0.00 seconds (because it has unlocked on its way from your pocket, so is already unlocked when it enters your field of view). And since I generally respond to notifications on my Apple Watch, it’s just going to be slower for me. And yet, I still have to have one 
Why does it need to be an argument versus a valid point? I'm not following your argument here. What I said is exactly an accurate analogy of how technology evolves.
Because 'Said 'future' of anything technology related is a revolving door of a maturity process to make a refinements needed to become more efficient overtime. It's also a natural aspect that somebody would expect Apple to make the product better to refine a feature that ultimately needs maturity. In the case of Face ID, this is a first generation product with technology that they're implementing for the first time to the masses, which will require updates to the software and hardware to make it better.
This is confusing. You do go to the home screen after unlocking with FaceID, unless you tap on a notificaiton. Are you saying you think the swipe action should go away? You want to look at the phone and have it open without needing to touch anything? The swipe is the exact same thing as clicking the home button once you unlock with TouchID. If you don't click, you stay on the lock screen.
This might be the dumbest thing I've ever read on here, and I've read a lot of dumb things.
Were you expecting technology to get worse year-over-year.
Huh? Quite the opposite. With my 8 Plus I can pick up my phone, look at the screen, and set it back down without unlocking it.
It appears you can't do this with the X and FaceID. You pick it up and look at it and it unlocks whether you actually want it to or not.
Yeah. Why didn’t Apple just release the iPhone X in 2007? They were just holding it back to make money.
It seems Spoonauer using it wrong. That’s not how you’re supposed to unlock the iPhone X, you’re not supposed to tap the side button. You just need to let rise-to-wake turn on the display and swipe up. You don’t even have to wait for the padlock animation, just swipe up and by the time you’ve done that, Face ID will have unlocked the phone for you.
It seems that Spoonauer is creating his own extra step in the process. But yet, his article will be picked up around the internet and the ‘fact’ that "FaceID is slower than TouchID” will prevail.
It seems that Spoonauer is creating his own extra step in the process. But yet, his article will be picked up around the internet and the ‘fact’ that "FaceID is slower than TouchID” will prevail.
Biggest gripe is it won’t work while phone is landscape.
I thought this was going to be great at the gym. If I can unlock by looking at the phone while using the elliptical or treadmill, it would be awesome.
But most of the time I’m using it in landscape mode. So that won’t work. Or do I need to tilt my neck 60-90 degrees
I thought this was going to be great at the gym. If I can unlock by looking at the phone while using the elliptical or treadmill, it would be awesome.
But most of the time I’m using it in landscape mode. So that won’t work. Or do I need to tilt my neck 60-90 degrees
I'm skipping this year. I'd like to see how it turns out for everyone. Being an early adopter has not paid off. So I'll just have to keep myself busy with the hundreds of threads here.
or you could just be normal and not use a passcode, thats the fastest way, ever since the iPod in 2010 ive been doing that
Apple's new Face ID facial recognition system coming in the iPhone X unlocks an iPhone more slowly than Touch ID did, according to Tom's Guide.
Tom's Guide is one of the sites that was provided with an iPhone X for evaluation this week, and reviewer Mark Spoonauer compared Face ID and Touch ID unlocking times with a stopwatch.
It took 1.2 seconds for Spoonauer to unlock the iPhone X from pressing the side button on the side of the device and another 0.4 seconds to swipe up to get to the lock screen, while getting to the Home screen on an iPhone 7 Plus using Touch ID took 0.91 seconds.
When using Raise to Wake and swiping up on the display as the iPhone is recognizing a face (as Face ID is meant to be used, according to John Gruber), unlocking was faster at a total of 1.16, but Spoonaeur still found it to be slower than Touch ID.
In a raw comparison like that, Touch ID seems like the faster unlocking method, but as TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino points out, in actual day-to-day usage, Face ID has benefits over Touch ID because it's a more streamlined interaction.
With Touch ID, to do something like open up a notification, you need to tap the notification and then use Touch ID to open the notification, a two step gesture. With Face ID, it recognizes your face as the phone is raised while you're tapping the notification, a quicker, less involved action.
Panzarino says that while Face ID is slower when placed head to head with Touch ID, it's "much more fluid and faster to actually 'do things.'"
Face ID is a first-generation technology, and early Touch ID was also much slower than it is today. In the future, Face ID will improve and get much faster, but even in the interim, it seems to be a more natural biometric authentication method that won't require thought or attention once users become accustomed to the way that it works.
Right now, Face ID is only available to a select number of people who have been provided with early iPhone X review units, but once it launches on Friday, we'll have a much better understanding of just how it works and how it compares to Touch ID in real world usage.
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The spinning is already starting and the product isn't even in the population's hands yet. I need to stock up on popcorn for next week.
I see a lot of people running around at the gym with their smartphones strapped to their upper arm, or their hip, etc.. will be interesting to see how that works out for them while running and trying to unlock their phone. With TouchID, they can reach over and touch it.
Biggest gripe is it won’t work while phone is landscape.
I thought this was going to be great at the gym. If I can unlock by looking at the phone while using the elliptical or treadmill, it would be awesome.
But most of the time I’m using it in landscape mode. So that won’t work. Or do I need to tilt my neck 60-90 degrees
I see a lot of people running around at the gym with their smartphones strapped to their upper arm, or their hip, etc.. will be interesting to see how that works out for them while running and trying to unlock their phone. With TouchID, they can reach over and touch it.
Of course things evolve through iteration, and things can be iterated on behind closed doors just saying, but singing the praises of something that is implemented now because you see it as a natural step to greater things in future products smacks of "taking one for the team". The thread is about Face ID being slower than Touch ID so imagine this:
"Hey Bill check out my face unlocking my iPhone X"
"Ermm I was expecting faster"
"Don't worry when I spend another $1000 on the next version it'll be there"
Doesn't make a great advert does it?
You could, given that the phone will be right in front of you, keep it unlocked while you're on the treadmill/elliptical. It may use a little more battery, but...Biggest gripe is it won’t work while phone is landscape.
I thought this was going to be great at the gym. If I can unlock by looking at the phone while using the elliptical or treadmill, it would be awesome.
But most of the time I’m using it in landscape mode. So that won’t work. Or do I need to tilt my neck 60-90 degrees
It may be faster for responding to notifications, but it can’t be anything but slower for starting an app, since TouchID takes 0.00 seconds (because it has unlocked on its way from your pocket, so is already unlocked when it enters your field of view). And since I generally respond to notifications on my Apple Watch, it’s just going to be slower for me. And yet, I still have to have one
when sitting at work, my iPhone is on the desk in front of me. Presumably faceID will be faster because it will always see me and be unlocked, vs. me having to reach for the home button.
In Hawaii we don't really worry too much about gloved usage lol.
My question is, if you just want to glance at the phone and not unlock it, how soon does it re-lock itself once you set it back down/stick it in your pocket/etc?
My question is, if you just want to glance at the phone and not unlock it, how soon does it re-lock itself once you set it back down/stick it in your pocket/etc?
Not an option for many people, even if they aren't inherently paranoid. Many entire professions require there be a passcode. My employer, and many others, requires it if you want to read work emails on the phone, and it is enforced by the software.
Love how people are like “I’ll skip this year when it’s faster or not half-baked”... No, your skipping because your poor-ass can’t afford it!
The real question is - which is faster and less annoying when making purchases?
Whether one is slightly better than the other with regards to my personal interactions with my phone is less important.
Whether one is slightly better than the other with regards to my personal interactions with my phone is less important.