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iPhone 8 Facial Recognition Appears to Support Payments, Multiple Faces and Third-Party Apps
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Oh my god......a Trump phone. Orange with front screen ringed with white like raccoon.
SWEET!!!!
I knew Apple was going to be pro active instead of reactive about that.
It helps, especially with little kids playing on their parents' phones.
So does this mean that all my banking apps and other apps that took forever to intigrate Touch ID are now going to take forever to adapt to facial recognition?
You ignored the second half of my comment...their face detection algorithms suck in a totally static picture, let alone in the real world when I may change my facial hair, have glasses on, be making a strange face, etc. Why can’t my brother (or identical twin if I had one) get into my phone since face detection always confuses us?
It's completely normal in the software world.
It is much easier for apple to just take iOS and install it in the homepod and turn of the features it would not use than write or cherry pick only parts of iOS that it needs for the homepod.
Maybe that’s true, but Apple doesn’t get excused for selling an inferior UX because they couldn’t get the tech ready in time.
I've never said 'an opinion can't be incorrect'. You should really pay attention to context. I was specifically quoting and repeating someone when I typed that. I then proceeded to destroy his rationale that an opinion cannot be incorrect. 99.9% of opinions throughout time have been incorrect. That's called a hypothesis and virtually all hypotheses are not fully correct.
Understand?
Lmao Apple has done a rocker style button many times. Just so you're informed. And by the way, I feel so so sorry for the guys that say 'Apple is working to remove buttons'. No. Apple is NOT working to remove the physical buttons on the SIDE of the device. Anyone REMOTELY intelligent knows exactly why those will remain physical buttons.
I'll explain it for you anyway though:
iPhone control when in the pocket. When in the dark. For those with handicaps. For software resetting. For the purposes of being INCAPABLE of adding Taptic engines toward the top of the device where the buttons are. See a Taptic response at the bottom is worthless for buttons at the top.
Thanks for your understanding
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No I haven't. It's that you don't understand how Apple's implementation works. And, a static two dimension photograph will not work.
One thing is to scan a 2D image and using an algorithm to extrapolate datapoints aka photo app faces.
A totally diferente world is to measure 3d data points from a 3d sensing infrared camera feed and compare them to the 3d model of your facial features.
Your line of thought is the same as comparing a photocopy of your thumb with your real thumb and expecting Touch ID wouldn’t work, because anyone can copy your finger or whatever.
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Yes, and as soon as they turn it back around to use it... locked again.Until until they point it at you? Yeah, seems like an unlikely scenario.
I don't care, I'm still not getting into a driverless car speeding down freeway at 70 MPH. How many times has you phone, iPad, computer frozen up? Think about it.
Now if we can get a phone the size of the 7plus with bezels the size of the new phone we'll be golden.
As soon as they turn the phone around to use the phone, it will lock because it detects the correct user is no longer using it.
Perhaps...why, then, can Samsung’s and Microsoft’s implementations be fooled by a photograph? I love Apple as much as anyone but I find it hard to believe they’ve made it many times better. And what about identical twins? Or even siblings that look very much alike? The whole thing seems very questionable to me...but I guess we’ll see what happens in September.
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Nobody here understands how Apple’s implementation works since they haven’t announced it yet...
So how much of all these mock outrage is going to be proven invalid once the iPhone is released?
Apple isn't perfect, but my experience with Touch ID has shown that Apple can and will sweat the details when it comes to something as crucial as security on your phone.
Apple isn't perfect, but my experience with Touch ID has shown that Apple can and will sweat the details when it comes to something as crucial as security on your phone.
Obviously because it is not the same implementation...
Although we really have no idea of what we are talking about...don’t for a single moment think you are more clever than the biggest consumer electronics company in the world.
Every problem that can cross your mind surely has been worked out. If it isn’t, obviously Apple won’t implement It...
And identical twins are not identical...The fact that we can’t easily notice a difference doesn’t mean they aren’t different.
The distance between there eyes varies as many other features that can easily be measured just not seen upfront.
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Of course nobody knows, but it’s certainly worthy discussing. Apple has made mistakes in the past and will certainly make mistakes in the future, so while I don’t think I’m more clever I also don’t think they’re perfect.
As for the last part, care to cite a source? Identical twins are formed from the same cell and contain identical DNA. As time goes on they tend to age and be affected by their environments differently, but they are typically born precisely the same. Surely there are sets of “identical” twins with subtly different faces, but the vast majority are physically indistinguishable.
Recognition is performed based on a captured 3 dimensional image whose many facial metrics are compared with previously stored 3-d facial feature sets. It's not rocket science. And it will be more secure than fingerprint TouchId.
With respect to twins... Even monozygotic twins are not identical in all aspects; fingerprints being an example. Subtle non-genetic features are developed over time based based upon environmental factors. Some are cast during pregnancy.
If Samsung and Microsoft facial recognition tech can be fooled by a photograph it is not very sophisticated.
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Don’t worry about that, if you are not to old you will still live to the day when selfdriving cars are the only legal option.
Probably driving is the riskest activity that normal people do.
So, when autonomous vehicles are statistically safer than a person, nany state will get sure you won’t hurt yourself or the ones that surround you.
Pessimisticaly, I would give 7 years for the technology to get to that point (which already is but has to be tested for a lot more time)
10 years on top of that for autonomous cars to be prevalent on big city’s.
After that is just a question of when...but it would be the next logical step for a nany state.
Until until they point it at you? Yeah, seems like an unlikely scenario.
Incorrect.
Face ID apparently auto-locks the phone intermittently if the person using it isn't recognized, possibly quietly scanning each time a new app is opened. So it's actually safer in this regard, because Touch ID can't keep asking you to place your finger on the phone constantly, but Face ID can intermittently authenticate you as you use it.
For sharing your phone with others, my best guess is there will be a share mode, perhaps accessible in control center or the new function bar. You tap it, enter your passcode, and pass it to a friend or your kids. But I'm not an Apple engineer and perhaps they had a better idea.
Of course the tradeoff being that for the 95% of the time you aren't passing your phone to a friend, like I was saying, with Face ID you need to take zero actions for your phone to instantly authenticate your identity when it's needed. It's much more efficient. Most of the time when you pass your phone to somebody you have to authenticate for them anyway.