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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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Wait What?? LOL doesnt makes sense at all. Also the video posted to show the speed is sooo biased towards FaceID because you can start waking up the phone with the home button while you also bring it to your face. BS, stop defending it, they should have included touchid, even if in the back.
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well assuming you can swipe-up using gloves. is that possible on the X?
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well assuming you can swipe-up using gloves. is that possible on the X?
OK let me try this analogy, and see if you actually get it.
Which of these is more secure?
a) A front door that I can stand in front of, that remains locked until I unlock it with a key when I want to walk through it
b) A front door that is unlocked all the while I'm stood in front of it, regardless of whether I want to walk through it or not
Apple has a pretty good track record. More so with Steve under the helm product wise than Tim cook. Apple’s decisions under Tim Cook have been worrying me not just as a investor for the long term. But in pertaining to their products as well as some of their business decisions.
Unfortunately intelligent responses like yours never get attention. People blast through with stupid remarks, never to realize the short sidedness of their view.
Why would a thief possibly go through the trouble of taking your phone in the brief time that you have unlocked it but not went to the home screen? They could just steal it from you when making a call, writing an email or browsing the web. Even if they did this, they still need your password to disable find my iPhone or your pin to disable FaceID. Unless they plan to keep the phone turned on indefinitely and assume your persona.
Dude, are you for real? Seriously? You compare the front door of your home with a mobile device you got at your hand or pocket?
You didn’t answer my questions earlier. What is your issue with an unlocked phone at your hand or at your desk? Really! What you afraid of? Someone grabbing it an running away? If someone wants to grab your phone and run they would do it regardless of it being locked or unlocked.
I swear, some people would look for issues and when they can’t find one, they would fantasise one.
I use it and don't think its a joke at all. I find the circles to be pretty useful because it guides you to muscle memory vs. having no idea why it might not have worked. It also works if you are close, so they don't have to be perfectly aligned. From what I'm hearing on the early use of FaceID, people are saying that have to hold it up in front of their face. What's the difference?
But as you said, FPS is also available on Samsung. While you might find cases where one of the other isn't as good as FaceID or TouchID, having both is better for the broad set of use cases that I run into daily. And I've trained myself to often do them both simultaneously, so it is a race and the first one done first unlocks. FaceID could be the best facial rec ever done, and it still is just facial so any use case where you can't get your face out in front of the phone is going to fail. There are a lot of them too.
I hope so. One of the reviews seemed to suggest it did work from the table, another that it had to be pointed at you square on. If the latter is true it’ll be a bit pants.
That’s why Apple makes you swipe up to get to the home screen. It’ll unlock when it sees you, but you have to swipe the lock screen up to get to the home screen.
But the phone is unlocked regardless of whether you swipe up or not? That's my issue.
how can you exclude the first step on one and not the other. and if ur argument is that you don't need to press the power button on the touch id device, u dont have to press it on the iphone x as well. and the second step is not a step. u literally raise the phone, swipe up. vs raising the phone and pressing the button. its all equal
Actually, Apple has already said the goal of FaceID was to be at least faster than TouchID 1.0, but probably would not be able to achieve the speed of Touch 2.0. In other words, fall in the middle. That's exactly where it is. FaceID is very slightly behind Touch 2.0. So this article is actually true -- and Apple knows it is a bit slower than 2.0. But it's not a ton slower, so who cares? For me, that's cool. I'm fine with that. Fast enough. Plus all the other benefits of FaceID, like logging into website, the notifications, etc. All that will be faster.
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Isn't that why Apple makes you swipe up with FaceID? It doesn't unlock just by looking at it.
Raise phone to wake.
It’s already unlocked because I will be looking at it.
Swipe up to go to home screen.
Not really any slower than pushing down on a home button (since you will be raising the phone to your face to use it anyways).
That said, am I the only one whose realizes that you'll be swiping right on whatever notification has come up as Face ID is recognising you. Once it does, you'll be put right into whatever app had the notification.
This is 2-3 times faster than Touch ID. With which you have to swipe the notification, THEN place finger on button; or vice versa, to be placed into the app. Face Id eliminates an entire step or more if you just go to home screen THEN into the app that had the notification.
Damn, now my 8+ sounds old.
I think people misinterpret FaceID. The idea isn't to spend time analyzing how or why it works or whether it's slower than TouchID or not. The idea is that it blurs the perception of needing authentication at all to unlock your phone. You shouldn’t have to consciously align your eyes into two circles for it to work.
I think what Apple was going for was using FaceID to take care of all the security stuff behind the scenes so you don't have too. It removes having to think about authenticating to access something because faceID has already detected that it is you.
What you're left with is a phone that is as easy to access as one without a passcode. No longer do you have to go through security checks because it is all done automatically. It seems pretty seamless when it works, and we're still only in V1, compared to Touch ID which has had 4 years of improvement.
Further illustrates the difference in design philosophy between Apple and the rest of the competition. This is precisely what I am paying for when I buy an Apple product - the extra thought that goes into designing it.
Swiping works, fingerprint recognition doesn’t. I spend most of my working day in nitrile gloves and FaceID will save me from typing in my pin every time I use my phone.
Right which I why I’m turning attention off. So I don’t even need to look at it and it will unlock. Sweet.Raise phone to wake.
It’s already unlocked because I will be looking at it.
Swipe up to go to home screen.
Not really any slower than pushing down on a home button (since you will be raising the phone to your face to use it anyways).
That said, am I the only one whose realizes that you'll be swiping right on whatever notification has come up as Face ID is recognising you. Once it does, you'll be put right into whatever app had the notification.
This is 2-3 times faster than Touch ID. With which you have to swipe the notification, THEN place finger on button; or vice versa, to be placed into the app. Face Id eliminates an entire step or more if you just go to home screen THEN into the app that had the notification.
Damn, now my 8+ sounds old.
I think people misinterpret FaceID. The idea isn't to spend time analyzing how or why it works or whether it's slower than TouchID or not. The idea is that it blurs the perception of needing authentication at all to unlock your phone. You shouldn’t have to consciously align your eyes into two circles for it to work.
I think what Apple was going for was using FaceID to take care of all the security stuff behind the scenes so you don't have too. It removes having to think about authenticating to access something because faceID has already detected that it is you.
What you're left with is a phone that is as easy to access as one without a passcode. No longer do you have to go through security checks because it is all done automatically. It seems pretty seamless when it works, and we're still only in V1, compared to Touch ID which has had 4 years of improvement.
Further illustrates the difference in design philosophy between Apple and the rest of the competition. This is precisely what I am paying for when I buy an Apple product - the extra thought that goes into designing it.
