iPhone 11 Pro I was a doubter. Not anymore. I love FaceID.

[GloriousAndrew]

Coming from a fingerprint scanner, Face ID is so much better. A fingerprint scanner sucks at the gym or after a run when your fingers are sweaty and when you are cooking and your fingers are dirtier.
After using Face ID, I can never go back to a fingerprint reader even if they added an in display reader.

 

[4sallypat]

I love my new 11 face ID coming from a 7+ with touch ID.

Switching over to the 11 was natural as my other phone is an Xs Max which I got so used to using the face ID for Apple card purchases.

 

[blairh]

I prefer Touch ID. (Used Face ID for two years.) I can unlock from a flat surface and while driving. (Yes you can use your phone safely while driving. Need to consider factors like speed, traffic, highway versus residential, etc.)

 

[Arndroid]

My first foray into Face ID is great. I enjoy it much more than Touch ID. 90% of the time I’m not even aware of it compared to being aware of Touch ID 100%.

 

[KelliBlue]

For a couple years now I've pissed and moaned about the home button going away. I've held off upgrading because of my beloved TouchID and how much I thought FaceID was ridiculous.

But this year I decided it was finally time and got my iPhone 11 Pro Max. After using it for two minutes I was hooked. FaceID is incredible. It's so nice not to have to TouchID constantly to log into sites, autofill passwords, and so on. It's so fast and reliable that sometimes it recognizes my face unintentionally when I'm just checking the time real quick at an odd angle.

It's awesome and I'm not sure I ever want to go back to TouchID.

I'm sorry for being such a doubting mustafa. I should be more open minded about this stuff from now on.

(I could write a similar post about OLED too but I'll save ya'll the spam. All I can say is "WHOAH!" about the display.)

Having worked in a law office we have and still do recommend people to protect their devices with an actual passcode and not a fingerprint nor faceid.

The reason for this is that law enforcement can, even without a warrant or court order, compel you to open your phone if it is locked with a biometric feature, but they cannot compel you to “divulge knowledge” (disclose a passcode).

Most people will say, “I’m not a criminal, I don’t care if they look in my phone”, this is because most people don’t realize that they way laws are written today, and with overlapping jurisdictions, EVERYONE has, at one time or another, done something they could be arrested for.

Use a passcode.

 

[Wokis]

Hmm? Is my face that ugly? I am of the opposite opinion completely. It seems really finicky about what distance and angle I keep the phone at and the experience has thus not been seamless at all..

I also dislike the fact that as long as it isn’t sure that I’m the one staring at the phone, it won’t display the content of messages and such which are sent to me and supposed to be displayed on the lock screen. A security feature for sure, but.. I’d rather not have it. Not sure if it can be disabled or something. I’ve tried checking and unchecking all “when locked allow” features but to no avail.

edit: found it in notification settings! Yay

especially noticeable that it sometimes has to check again when I bring the phone up, so I get some kind of haptic shake that it is in doubt.

 

[internetrando]

I love FaceID and have yet to miss the home button or TouchID after the initial “reprogramming” period.

I will say that it has gotten considerably faster than it was when it launched.
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Having worked in a law office we have and still do recommend people to protect their devices with an actual passcode and not a fingerprint nor faceid.

The reason for this is that law enforcement can, even without a warrant or court order, compel you to open your phone if it is locked with a biometric feature, but they cannot compel you to “divulge knowledge” (disclose a passcode).

Most people will say, “I’m not a criminal, I don’t care if they look in my phone”, this is because most people don’t realize that they way laws are written today, and with overlapping jurisdictions, EVERYONE has, at one time or another, done something they could be arrested for.

Use a passcode.

A custom password is even better if you’re worried about it. It also takes about one second to disable the biometric entry features with the volume down and power button.

 

[naturalguy]

I prefer Touch ID. (Used Face ID for two years.) I can unlock from a flat surface and while driving. (Yes you can use your phone safely while driving. Need to consider factors like speed, traffic, highway versus residential, etc.)

I personally never touch my phone while driving, with Car Play it’s completely unnecessary though I realize not everyone has Car Play.

 

[mantan]

Coming from a fingerprint scanner, Face ID is so much better. A fingerprint scanner sucks at the gym or after a run when your fingers are sweaty and when you are cooking and your fingers are dirtier.
After using Face ID, I can never go back to a fingerprint reader even if they added an in display reader.

That was a big one for me as a runner. Once I got sweaty it was hard to open my phone to change playlists. And it was nearly impossible in the winter when I had gloves on.

 

[Gathomblipoob]

It's a bit worse in the car, but you shouldn't use your phone there anyways so no real loss there. Outside of that I'm loving it so far, flawless in normal usage for me and feels super intuitive. I wouldn't say no to both an under display fingerprint reader and faceID combo though.

I set up an alternate Face ID for the car. Works great.

 

[Pipper99]

They had me at "no home button". I've been wanting a phone without having to click a home button and using swipe gestures since I had a jailbreak app that provided this functionality (no FaceID with that tweak, just swipe gestures). I loved just swiping up to go home. FaceID has been terrific for me. I'd hate to go back to a home button, and I'm so glad that the new iPad Pros have FaceID.

 

[now i see it]

Make no mistake, TouchID and FaceID are compromised authentication features designed for lazy people

 

[Supermallet]

The issue I had With faceid on my phone can’t really be resolved. Using an iPhone with touchid for all these years I am conditioned that when grabbing it out of my pocket, or off the desk or whatever I naturally place my thumb on the home button and my phone is unlocked long before it ever has to see my face. So in that case faceid “seems” painfully slow.

I did this all the time with my TouchID phones, but I still find FaceID far more convenient and useful day to day. I was a naysayer about the tech as well but from the moment I tried it on the Xs Max I knew I was completely wrong and now I get so annoyed with my iPad that still has TouchID.

 

[jsmith1]

I thought I wouldn’t like it coming from 6s to X and put off little because of it...turned out for the phone is was one of the best features and wouldn’t go back even after few days.....on the other hand, the few days I had the iPad 11 pro before sending it back due to other issues, I hated it.....I like the home button for iPad way better due to how it’s used I believe...phone is mobile easy and convenient to use...for me iPad needs home button...not looking forward to the day I have to switch on iPad.

 

[danny842003]

I’ve got a new 11 Pro, having come from an 8. I’m slowly getting the hang of FaceID, it works most of the time. However, it doesn’t seem to work so well in low light/at night. Bit annoying really.

its not possible for that to be the case. I can only assume there’s some other cause like the angle your holding the phone at, possiblyin bed/on a sofa etc.

 

[Bethanie21]

its not possible for that to be the case. I can only assume there’s some other cause like the angle your holding the phone at, possiblyin bed/on a sofa etc.

Nope, I was sat up, the phone was right in front of me. I reset FaceID and it’s not really improved

 

[danny842003]

Nope, I was sat up, the phone was right in front of me. I reset FaceID and it’s not really improved

well either way it’s not the dark it doesn’t work like that.

 

[zorinlynx]

Having worked in a law office we have and still do recommend people to protect their devices with an actual passcode and not a fingerprint nor faceid.

The reason for this is that law enforcement can, even without a warrant or court order, compel you to open your phone if it is locked with a biometric feature, but they cannot compel you to “divulge knowledge” (disclose a passcode).

Most people will say, “I’m not a criminal, I don’t care if they look in my phone”, this is because most people don’t realize that they way laws are written today, and with overlapping jurisdictions, EVERYONE has, at one time or another, done something they could be arrested for.

Use a passcode.

It only takes moments to disable FaceID by holding lock and volume down. On older phones you hit power 5 times.

You can do this when you get pulled over before talking to the police. This is also why I recommend people carry physical insurance cards and IDs; even if it's legal to have them in your phone, handing your unlocked phone to police so they can look at them is a horrible idea.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

I would say in about 75% of use cases that FaceID is superior for me. There are still multiple times per day that I would prefer Touch ID like when I’m using my phone at my desk at work and when I’m using my phone in bed in the morning.

I would love to see a phone with both.

 

[MisterSavage]

It only takes moments to disable FaceID by holding lock and volume down. On older phones you hit power 5 times.

You can do this when you get pulled over before talking to the police. This is also why I recommend people carry physical insurance cards and IDs; even if it's legal to have them in your phone, handing your unlocked phone to police so they can look at them is a horrible idea.

Not only that I believe Face ID disables itself if you haven't used it in 48 hours.

 

[QCassidy352]

I don’t have a faceID device, but my wife does. It’s great. But TouchID is also great. Each technology is better than the other in certain situations, so what I’d really love is an iPhone that has both.

 

[Ahmed7]

Face ID is the best thing to happen to iPhone in my opinion. Its so seamless you forget you even have a password.

However, since iOS13 it gets disabled every couple of hours and doesn't work again until I restart it. I have to restart my phone a minimum of 5 times a day.

 

[zorinlynx]

However, since iOS13 it gets disabled every couple of hours and doesn't work again until I restart it. I have to restart my phone a minimum of 5 times a day.

I haven't had this issue. Could your phone be defective? This may be worth taking it to Apple for.

 

[craigio85]

I was initially a doubter and got an 8 Plus instead of going for the X.

But FaceID has been truly excellent. Can’t fault it - miss rate is incredibly low. We’re talking about once a week and usually because I’m yawning or trying to unlock with a huge mug of tea half obscuring my face. With TouchID, I would have several fails each day in the winter due to dry skin on my thumbs. Wasn’t a big deal at the time, but once I’d had a few hours with the better solution (in my opinion), no way would I go back.

 

[MisterSavage]

I was initially a doubter and got an 8 Plus instead of going for the X.

But FaceID has been truly excellent. Can’t fault it - miss rate is incredibly low. We’re talking about once a week and usually because I’m yawning or trying to unlock with a huge mug of tea half obscuring my face. With TouchID, I would have several fails each day in the winter due to dry skin on my thumbs. Wasn’t a big deal at the time, but once I’d had a few hours with the better solution (in my opinion), no way would I go back.

Same here. I apparently have the skin of a desiccated corpse in the winter. I had failures all the time with Touch ID. No way I would go back.