Indeed. Biometrics is starting to shape the future for Mobile phones with Iris and facial recognition becoming more prominent. It's just a matter of refining this technology with the right security measures and reliability. Both of those ingredients are crucial. The other battle for some is accepting this technology as it becomes more prevalent.
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iPhone 8 Facial Recognition Will Likely Work With Apple Pay According to HomePod Firmware
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Indeed. Biometrics is starting to shape the future for Mobile phones with Iris and facial recognition becoming more prominent. It's just a matter of refining this technology with the right security measures and reliability. Both of those ingredients are crucial. The other battle for some is accepting this technology as it becomes more prevalent.
Seems like Touch-id will be entirely replaced by "Face-ID" in iPhone 8. hoping it will be as fast and accurate as Touch-ID.
Many of the iPhone 8 rumors this year have brought to mind the tear drop shaped iPhone 5 incident a number of years ago. So many people where so sure of the leaks that manufacturers were mass producing cases for it, then it never happened.
Ah great !
I have D. Trump's face - but I use to sit on it. Might work for ApplePay though (...)
I have D. Trump's face - but I use to sit on it. Might work for ApplePay though (...)
The home button will be implemented as a software asset, likely activated by a 3D Touch press and accompanied by the phone’s Taptic Engine to create the illusion of pressing a physical button.
Much like how the current iPhone 7’s home button works — it isn’t a real button, but the Taptic Engine vibrates in such a way that it feels like a real button. In the iPhone 8, it will be the same principal, only using an entirely virtual button that responds to a 3D Touch. This would be to avoid accidental “clicks” by simply touching the home button’s area.
I can't imaging they would be intentionally 'trying' to eliminate TouchID. In fact, they are probably hard at work figuring out how to put it under the screen. *IF* these findings from the HomePod are true, then it may be nothing more sinister than Apple not making it work in time.
Besides... what about the scenarios where TouchID is not the best? What if you don't have hands? (no... not a joke) Having a second option for biometrics is not necessarily a bad idea.
Personally, I'm looking forward to voice prints. Just ask Siri to do something and she'll know who you are! Further, imagine a phone that knows it's YOU holding it versus someone else?
The more I hear this, the more upset I get. I don't use Apple Pay, but Touch ID has become so flawless and easy, and I do not see facial recognition being better or easier to use. If this comes to fruition, I will look at other mobile options. A fingerprint sensor on the back is better than none at all.
So, wiping the oil/sweat/gunk off your finger to get Touch ID to work well will be replaced by take your sunglasses/hat/wig off for Face ID to work ...
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Facial recognition isn't looking at your face per se. It's the math of your face not how you look. Coupled with the rumored IR camera, day/night, shave/no shave won't matter.
I suspect that the facial recognition will utilize infrared (as reported) to detect if it's a real face, combined with 3-D modelling. So flat photos will not work.
I don't think you have to hover over your phone at a perfect angle like Dracula to get it to work, even though it would be hilarious.
Just a slight tilt towards your face right after you take it out of your pocket and it should work. That seems to be what they are hinting at when they say faster than Touch ID....I hope.
Hopefully identical twins all trust each other. . But seriously this doesn't feel super secure to me. Then again anyone can just steal your wallet and start tap paying with your debit and credit card, at least here in Canada. Though I'm pretty sure credit card companies all cover fraudulent charges here as if your card/card info is stolen/compromised.
I've never used Apple Pay but I'm assuming it only works for up to a certain amount under $100?
. But seriously this doesn't feel super secure to me. Then again anyone can just steal your wallet and start tap paying with your debit and credit card, at least here in Canada. Though I'm pretty sure credit card companies all cover fraudulent charges here as if your card/card info is stolen/compromised. I've never used Apple Pay but I'm assuming it only works for up to a certain amount under $100?
Facial recognition being more Fast isn't as important to me as having the security measures being important first. I would rather have facial recognition be slower than Touch ID, as long it works efficiently and my identity is protected.
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u wink at it
I can see it now. Got an annoying itch...*wink, wink*... phone takes you back to Home screen in the middle of your important business transaction... "dammit!"
I wonder how Apple will activate the facial scan feature? Will it be "always on" or only start scanning when you do some action on-screen? I know there are times when TouchID isn't the easiest to use, such as when I'm at my desk and my iPhone is on the charger stand and I have to bend my arm to get my thumb or finger to touch it without pushing the phone over or back. It would be pretty slick if I could just glance at the iPhone and have it unlock automatically.
What if it's dark like paying in a bar or club?
What if it's Halloween?
What if your wearing your bike helmet?
What if you grow a beard?
This won't work for any turnstyles i.e., the tube contactless payments. I can imagine all the business peoples headbutting the contactless machine to get to the underground looking like idiots.
Sometimes contactless machines are in arms reach away. Facial recognition won't work trying to line up angles of the camera sensing your face etc. This I'm sure will take massive amounts of processing as well as lightning neede to be instant as touch ID
Plus I miss slipping my arm out of my bed to unlock my phone because I can't open my eyes from the lack of sleep.
What if it's Halloween?
What if your wearing your bike helmet?
What if you grow a beard?
This won't work for any turnstyles i.e., the tube contactless payments. I can imagine all the business peoples headbutting the contactless machine to get to the underground looking like idiots.
Sometimes contactless machines are in arms reach away. Facial recognition won't work trying to line up angles of the camera sensing your face etc. This I'm sure will take massive amounts of processing as well as lightning neede to be instant as touch ID
Plus I miss slipping my arm out of my bed to unlock my phone because I can't open my eyes from the lack of sleep.
Or maybe Apple is not actually playing some imagined, epic four dimensional game of chess with us and their competition, and this is just a simple leak of a future firmware update for an upcoming product.
It's really hard to see how that could be anything other than a big step backwards in terms of usability.
I know haha, apparently endless leaks of confirmed information from Apple on the new iPhone, leaked by Apple 'accidentally'...apparently.. I don't believe it either. It's either a deliberate leak to survey reactions or false information. Their has been NO iPhone 7S information offered by these people going through the firmware....
Ha. The first thing I thought of, was "pearls before swine".
Which, considering all the whining about facial recognition, might not be that far off
Look very sternly at the screen.
Or, as someone pointed out, use the virtual home button which will likely be on the bottom part of the extra long display... just like is done on Android.
Facial can work from pretty far away.
I suspect you'd only have to glance down at the phone in your hand once, and it'll pre-arm Apple Pay authentication.
Is this just a HomePod firmware or Biff Tannen's Alamanac
This HomePod firmware wasn't a leak by Apple, it's an official beta release by Apple. Hence the theory this is no accident the information is in the firmware.
