crap, i never read the whole article)) if this doesn't work for making payments - that's just lame.
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iOS 14.5 Adds an Option to Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch if You're Wearing a Mask
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If you have your Apple Watch on and are wearing a mask, there’s a much easier way to make Apple Pay payments that doesn’t require unlocking your phone.
Use your Apple Watch.
naturally, but it can be quite uncomfortable reaching under the various plastic covers that are place on counters nowadays.
Not sure what covers you are referring to, but I don’t see how using your phone instead of your watch solves that problem. Either way, you are bringing a device within reach of a POS terminal.
these kind. yes i realize that, but it's much easier to reach a terminal that is under one of those covers with a phone that is in your hand, rather than with a watch that is on your wrist.
Ah, thanks. I’ve never seen such a thing. Around here, the POS terminal is just located in front of any partition, or off to the side. Nobody reaching under anything.
yea, you'd think they would consider the way this is meant to work, but i am surprised by how often they don't. it's all good, none of this is that important, but apple is all about convenience, so...
Ernly Apple can duh thus - take an integrated and working solution (touchID) away and bring it back for an additional purchase.
Great, just in time to stop wearing masks!
Im adopting the Asian culture, 4 months before the pandemic I was on a bus with somebody sneezing and coughing directly on me and was pissed at how they weren’t even taught to cover their mouth with an arm (I then got sick and it almost ruined my vacation).The west can do better even with normal cold and flu. We don’t have to accept tons of sick days and lost productivity.
From now on if you feel sick wear a freaking mask. It’s common courtesy no matter what you have, why make somebody else miserable for no reason?
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I’m in complete agreement, hence my winking face (which was also referencing how long it took Apple to implement this way to unlock).
Yes manually turn Bluetooth on and off on the watch and it’ll fix it!
So this is working for me faster than FaceID by fractions of a second but doing AB tests it is a bit faster which is bonkers that it can detect I’m wearing a mask and look for watch to unlock faster than the standard FaceID
Finally. However, the passcode for my watch is four digits so I may need to see if I can up that security. This sounds great.
I hate masks a plenty and this is one of the reasons.
I hate masks a plenty and this is one of the reasons.
I think that instead of using FaceID or entering a passcode, you can press some button on your Apple Watch to unlike the phone. So if your wife grabs your phone, and you PRESS a button on your watch, then the phone is unlocked. No need for her to look at the phone at all.
Doing that your phone thinks that some stranger looked at the phone for the last 200 days. Might easily happen if you and your spouse have the same iPhone model in the same colour. You need to look at the screen, then enter the passcode immediately. That makes the phone think "the legitimate owner looked at the screen, but I didn't recognise them. Maybe I should adapt". Depending on your mask, there may be just not enough information to recognise you anyway.
And remember that FaceID isn't just supposed to let YOU into the phone, it is also supposed to keep EVERYONE ELSE out.