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iPhone 8 Said to Feature Iris Scanner to Authenticate With Your Eyes
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You don't do any kind of banking or financial stuff? Credit card statements?
You should be using a flip phone, grandpa!
Agree. Lazy thumb or finger on touch id is waaaay more convenient that picking up my phone and staring at it.
It wouldn't work like that. It would instantly unlock as soon as you picked it up - you wouldn't have to hold it in front of your face.
It would be much faster than fingerprint recognition
How is that not wireless charging?
If you go somewhere were the table is the charger and has no visible wires does that no count? If you use a car that has a bay with no visible wires does that not count?
If your criticism is that wireless charging is only truly wireless as long as no wires of any kind are involved than Apple will not solve that either because somewhere in the vicinity of the phone a mechanism will be connected to a power grid using wires.
For that matter Wi-Fi is not "wireless" internet either because the router or modem is connected to the backbone by wires ...
Clever, but as things stand it's almost pointless. Unlocking my phone and using Apple pay is so simple that I don't even have to look at the phone. A double click as I slide my phone out of my pocket and my phone is unlocked with Apple pay at the ready. A quick swipe over the terminal to pay and my phone is back in my pocket with a few seconds. If I had to stand there and hold the thing up to my eye... Well I simply wouldn't. Not only will it take longer, I'd also look like a right plum!
I cant really think of a scenario at the moment where Iris scanning would be easier than a fingerprint scan. BUT! if Apple remove the home button and put the scanner behind the display it will be harder to locate the exact spot to place my thumb to scan, so I'd have to glance at it. Maybe if an iris scanner is so good that a quick glance is all you need, then maybe? We shall see.
I cant really think of a scenario at the moment where Iris scanning would be easier than a fingerprint scan. BUT! if Apple remove the home button and put the scanner behind the display it will be harder to locate the exact spot to place my thumb to scan, so I'd have to glance at it. Maybe if an iris scanner is so good that a quick glance is all you need, then maybe? We shall see.
Sorry about that, meant it for the fellow below.
You don't do any kind of banking or financial stuff? Credit card statements?
You should be using a flip phone, grandpa!
Can anyone help me understand use cases where an iris scanner is more desirable than a fingerprint scan? I can think of many times when I've unlocked my phone where holding it up to my face wouldn't have been convenient.
The use cases I can think of right now are for banking apps or areas where there are more sensitive information, such as Safari storing my passwords or credit cards - I'd want to unlock that with facial recognition (if that was an available option).
The use cases I can think of right now are for banking apps or areas where there are more sensitive information, such as Safari storing my passwords or credit cards - I'd want to unlock that with facial recognition (if that was an available option).
that's what I thought as well, until I had to take my gloves off to unlock my phone. That's an inconvenient in winter time. Also, I have around 5 devices, all use TouchID. I added a couple of fingers for each device and than I forgot which finger I should use for which device. Of course I have a default (middle) finger for all devices (lol), but an iris scan is better when I don't have to think about which finger or how I have to place the finger on the screen. So, I think there're a couple of usefulness for an iris scanner. Plus, nobody can hack an iris like the finger print.
See my use cases above.
I'm not familiar with it. Can you elaborate on how it work?
Maybe you're not a long time Apple fan, but Apple rarely is the 1st in anything. They're always the later, but once they're in, they change the game and other begin to follow. E.g. Finger print has always been there but it worked like crap and nobody want to use it. Then Apple brought their TouchID and now it's everywhere and other companies are following.
You greatly overestimate the current state of iris recognition technology....
What about the common scenario where you are picking up your phone to look at notifications (or check a widget)? Wouldn't it be nice if it automatically authenticated the moment you looked at the screen so you could just reply to a notification or launch an app immediately? Surely doing nothing is easier than even a lazy thumb touch to the home button.
Ideally, Apple would keep touchID so you could still immediately get to the homescreen without looking if that's what you want to do. But eye recognition is a big friction reducer for the common case of interacting with notifications or widgets.
Difference is with Wi-Fi you don't have to keep your phone touching the router to maintain an internet connection.
In short, the issue is range.
You haven't considered that Apple is/has/would test this technology with all scenarios?
If Samsung does it first. MacRumors thinks it's s gimmick.
Why would you keep a separate finger for each idevice? Just add the same ones to each device.... The gloves thing is a valid complaint but otherwise your use cases are nonsensical.
While it is, in theory, more secure, scanning the iris of the eye is much slower than reading a fingerprint, especially with the latest TouchID sensors. Not for me, thank you.
What if I want to just check the time? I don't always pick up my phone needing to unlock it. And now here I have to go out of my way to unlock it every time. It just introduces a new security risk.
