How to Measure Someone's Height with Your iPhone's Camera

[apparatchik]

In metric Tinder you would find girls asking for 1.80 mts, Im taller than that but refuse both to state my height in Tinder and to swipe right such girls which as said are usually 1.60-1.65 mts tops.

 

[ghostface147]

My wife is 4’11. It measured her at 5’1. She took off her crocs and was still measured at 5’1.

 

[dotnet]

Doesn’t work, it’s not doing anything other than saying “move closer” or “move further away”.

 

[vatter69]

Same here.

 

[x-evil-x]

This is a girls most wanted feature. Guys under 5’9 ewwww

 

[chublet]

5’9”!? Wow! Never mind the measurement feature how do we activate the travel back in time 300 years to the time when Roman measuremeant systems were relevant!? 😂😒

53 years old and i have never heard anyone use metric to describe size or weight or distance, except in the media, even my kids all use feet, stone, miles, so i guess those pesky imperial measurements are here to stay...

 

[Star Brood]

If it's a pro-only feature, then I'll wait until another one or two years until it finds its way into the sub-500 phone market. I could use an upgrade from my S8 with such a feature for interior designing, but not for these prices.

 

[Corbets1979]

A few girls' bios say "you must be 6' tall" even if they're much shorter. Only a few but enough to be a meme. It can go the other way too, girls who are 6' saying they're 5'11.

No further comment.

Hmm. I had rather assumed everyone was hinting at measuring at the 6-8 inches scale, but ok, that makes sense too.

 

[MozMan68]

Hmm. I had rather assumed everyone was hinting at measuring at the 6-8 inches scale, but ok, that makes sense too.

Apple needs a new photo editing app just for this purpose...

...or not! If it keeps adding an inch or two...

 

[DocPeti]

I have the same problem as others, it never works. Tried with different people, light and background conditions... Is there an easy way to test if the Lidar sensor is OK? (Without installing apps.)

 

[aknabi]

I call this the iPhone's new "Tinder Profile Verification" feature.

Indeed! Though when Withings added the Tinder verification for their weight scale there was an uproar about body shaming.

 

[sparkinstx]

This feature reminds me of the Apple Watch feature that times you when washing your hands

My experience so far with the handwashing feature is that it's utterly useless. It rarely comes on when I'm washing my hands, and when it does, it's usually frozen at 18, 17, or 16 seconds. It was a nice thought...

 

[nostresshere]

i can see it being a fun gimmick feature with american units, but i’m sure it’s gonna be way off in metric units, lidar is very low quality to be exact to 1 cm

WRONG

Accuracy will be the same in inches, feet, CM... etc. As to the percentage "off" - it will be the same for any of them.

 

[sparkinstx]

That girl needs some new pants.

 

[MozMan68]

My experience so far with the handwashing feature is that it's utterly useless. It rarely comes on when I'm washing my hands, and when it does, it's usually frozen at 18, 17, or 16 seconds. It was a nice thought...

Works every time for me...and still freaks me out.

 

[farmboy]

53 years old and i have never heard anyone use metric to describe size or weight or distance, except in the media, even my kids all use feet, stone, miles, so i guess those pesky imperial measurements are here to stay...

Yeah, it seems that places that used Imperial measurements "before" still use them, albeit sometimes interspersed with metric. My exposure to UK and Canadian television finds imperial to be ubiquitous. I use both at work, and I really don't see the need for purity of thought on one or the other. Liters are fine, so are gallons.

 

[ZhenyaF]

tried on 3 people - all were accurate

 

[Neepman]

A few girls' bios say "you must be 6' tall" even if they're much shorter. Only a few but enough to be a meme. It can go the other way too, girls who are 6' saying they're 5'11.

No further comment.

5'9" is entry-level minimum height for males for internet dating or hookups. If you are 5' 7" , don't even bother.

 

[Delta-NC]

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[zaneliu]

I have the same problem as others, it never works. Tried with different people, light and background conditions... Is there an easy way to test if the Lidar sensor is OK? (Without installing apps.)

Yeah I couldn't get it to work either. I wonder why as I can't find a way to debug it

 

[uzimt]

Yeah I couldn't get it to work either. I wonder why as I can't find a way to debug it

Someone posted in Reddit to reset all settings. Not the erase all content and setting. I have tried it and it works for me

 

[CarlJ]

It blows my mind how this works, where is the reference point, how does it know what and Inch/cm is?

With Lidar it can tell precisely how far something is. And it’s fairly good now at identifying objects, like standing people, so it can find the top of one’s head and bottom of one’s feet. it can accurately measure the angle between those two points in-camera. After that it’s simple trigonometry to take distance and angle and calculate the length of the far side of the triangle.

 

[kajh]

I tried it, but I couldn’t get it to work. It just kept telling me to move further away or closer. Tried different lighting and backgrounds, nothing.

Same issue here. Have you fond any solution?

If not, please see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251954411 and feel free to report your issue in that thread.

 

[zaneliu]

Someone posted in Reddit to reset all settings. Not the erase all content and setting. I have tried it and it works for me

I really don't want to go through and redo all my settings. I'm hoping this is a bug that can be fixed on apple's side.

 

[Delta-NC]

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