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HomePod Firmware Suggests iPhone 8 Will Be Able to Scan Your Face Even While Device is Lying Flat
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It will be interesting to see how this facial scanning technology adapts to sunglasses. I'm sure Apple's thought of that scenario and has a solution for it.
NAh. I still don't like it. Don't wanna have to scan my face at any angle everytime i wanna unlock my phone or use apple pay. How annoying. Touch id is so much simpler. Why you making it difficult Apple? Just cause you can? If touch ID isnt included on the iphone 8, i have no problem going with the iphone 7s plus instead.
Certainly regretting releasing unredacted firmware into the wild. Further scrutiny will probably reveal the 10-year product plan.
It will say buy. Since the phone knows it's an authorized user the purchase will be processed in one click as opposed to before where the user has to hold their finger on the touch ID
I think it is, as there does not appear to be any evidence of Touch ID in the firmware...
More of the same concerns in this forum as when Touch ID was introduced. Now we can’t live without Touch ID. Let’s give it a chance everyone.
Either Apple is trolling, or the homepod firmware is incredibly bloated with unnecessary codes.Apple trolling everyone would be so funny
I just can't see this working well enough not to be a pain in the butt. What about a person who sometimes wears eye glasses, sometimes wears contacts or sometimes wears sunglasses? What if that person also sometimes wears baseball caps or fedoras?
I think the best thing is to allow Apple to demonstrate its capabilities first. Followed by user and critic reviews will analyze every possible scenario possible with facial recognition. Interesting times.
You know, I'm starting to wonder if we've been going about this the wrong way. We've all been thinking of this as "facial recognition" but what if it uses your face's thermal signature which is considerably more unique than just facial features? And your thermal signature would be identifiable through masks, glasses, and clothes. Just a thought but the IR sensors seem to support that.
Facescan to log on....gonna be tough for teenagers with a ever changing pattern of zits. It is scary as it gets ever more personal just to log on. What next?; face, finger, voice, and retina ALL required? When is too much just too much?....happy just typing in a code.
Gotta love the idea so much. Glasses, no glasses, sunglasses, getting a piercing, colored contact lenses, wearing a hat, changing your hair enough(?), go crazy with makeup and whatever else. If the device can still recognise you from an awkward angle I'm pretty sure it'd open right away even for my cat.
Not to mention the new courageous way to make app purchases. "Look away quickly unless you want to purchase two thousand diamonds! *Beep* Too slow! Thank you for your purchase!".
I'm sure Apple has the courage to introduce something as harebrained as face recognition while dropping touch id but it still doesn't make it a good idea.
Not to mention the new courageous way to make app purchases. "Look away quickly unless you want to purchase two thousand diamonds! *Beep* Too slow! Thank you for your purchase!".
I'm sure Apple has the courage to introduce something as harebrained as face recognition while dropping touch id but it still doesn't make it a good idea.
I don't see that image as showing "no touch id" at all. It looks like an image of the back of the screen. There's a huge chunk missing at the bottom, which is exactly where you would need a space in the metal sheeting to mount a touch ID sensor behind the screen. Why is this image being touted as showing no Touch ID?
Seems a bit of a leap here. "Resting" could mean a lot of things in that context, only one of which is "lying flat". It's also assuming that all these strings are tied to features. Some could be detritus of abandoned concepts.
What really gets me is statements like this:
It's not like Apple to roll out something half baked, so I'll wait to pass judgement, but I can think of too many ways that something like this could be foiled. Hats, glasses, facial hair, facial distortion from emotion or exercise... Any data on how well facial recognition does in discriminating among twins compared to fingerprints?
What really gets me is statements like this:
More data points doesn't make something more secure unless those data points are less noisy, more strongly correlated to identity, more discriminative against false positives, and more likely to be used regularly and not circumvented.
It's not like Apple to roll out something half baked, so I'll wait to pass judgement, but I can think of too many ways that something like this could be foiled. Hats, glasses, facial hair, facial distortion from emotion or exercise... Any data on how well facial recognition does in discriminating among twins compared to fingerprints?
Or eye glasses vs contacts on the same person? Eye glasses have the added problem that they're designed to bend light passing through them...
+1. cause what about in the dark? like, when you pick up your phone from bedside table in middle of night? are they saying that it will shine IR light and unlock with that? hm. i suppose that could actually work. i'm skeptical at moment, but..
What about if you have no hands to use touchid? :hypotheticalsarebeinghypothesised
The difference for some of us is that I feel when something or someone touches any part of me. If you no longer need to have any physical contact with the device then that's not good. Often any little sound could wake me but some times I sleep hard and hear nothing. But I will always feel if something comes into contact with me.
That's something I'm concerned about. You know how the photos app has a folder with different people from facial recognition? Well most of my 10k pics on my 7 plus thinks I'm 11 different people.
Uh, where have you been the last 10 years? Apple Maps? Apple Music? Apple Watch? Heck even the OS on the first iPhone was barely functional.