I've read that they should continue to work seamlessly; such apps make a call to a generic authentication process that, in the case of the X, is FaceID and on earlier phones is TouchID. Let's hope that's the case.
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iPhone X Review Roundup: Face ID Works Well as Life Without Home Button Takes Getting Used To
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He didn't. Those were legitimate gripes--brought up in some of the reviews.
It's OK that there is a (potentially not great) new iPhone that you ARE buying. You don't have to insist everyone else is making up problems to make yourself feel better.
You are exaggerating. Overall he thought FaceID worked well. It isn’t perfect, but neither was TouchID.
I’m not seeing that. Most of the reviews I’ve seen say it’s close to flawless and doesn’t make them miss Touch ID. When Touch ID first came out it wasn’t flawless either. One thing I am optimistic about is every review I’ve seen so far suggests unlock and swipe up to home screen happen simultaneously so there isn’t an extra step from Touch ID.
The Verge's experience with FaceID is very concerning. If it's fickle in different lighting conditions--and with no option to get into the phone other than using a passcode that will get annoying real quick.
he's the only who saying this and is getting called out on twitter by those who have no issue
bare that in mind
Not one reviewer had taken an iPhone Plus and an X and put them side by side, and loaded a safari page with just text on it, enabled with the same text size, and compared how much more or less readable text you have.
I don't take a lot of pictures of people jumping around, but I do read a lot on my iPhone. Guess I'll have to wait until Friday.
I don't take a lot of pictures of people jumping around, but I do read a lot on my iPhone. Guess I'll have to wait until Friday.
The hell are you talking about? That's the exact opposite of reality.
And how well does Touch ID work with wet or very dry/cracked fingers? I’m not expecting Face ID to work under every conceivable situation. I don’t think Apple has promised that either.
Very true if this is the case then only one person can unlock the phone! I do this all the time with my wife's iPhone using one of my fingers in the touch of. Looks like Face ID going to eliminate this option
or use them and see whether your own use cases work with FaceID, safe in the knowledge you have 14 days to return it?
One It’s The Verge. Two, I’m seeing lots of other reviews on Twitter that haven’t experienced what he did. I’d say his is more of an outlier. I don’t trust The Verge much anymore. Nilay has turned it into a clickbait site and a lot of their pieces read like company PR fluff pieces. Recently they wrote this long story about how Google is a serious hardware player now and then we get the reports of all the issues with the Pixel 2 XL.
As far as I can tell, you'll get the same amount of text visible as on an iphone 8. Just a smidge larger.
It’s not about “blame”, it’s about the user experience obviously. That’s the purpose of a review.
Yep that works, it was sort of done during the Keynote when Face ID didn't work at first. He put the password in, then logged in with Face ID. Back when people claimed Face ID was garbage and didn't work. Oh wait.. people are still doing that. There are obvious issues with it however, it does work and is version 1. Same thing was said with Touch ID.. slow.. unresponsive at times.. suddenly 2.0 came out and those issues for the most part went away. Same will be the case here.
R.E.L.A.X dude. Not everyone in here, at least not me, shows the blind love-fest towards Apple. Prowling this board to counterpoint each post that you feel is questioning an Apple feature is what is "nauseating", using your own words.
I get it, maybe you do not. The OP you refuted has a very valid point, in my opinion.
This is a first-gen FaceID. Apple will refine further, no doubt. FaceID is a major accomplishment, but it is first-gen and will see iterative improvements. Eventually FaceID will allow multiple face profiles to allow in-family sharing -- same as TouchID does today, with multiple finger profiles.
So I ask?
When Apple magically launches FaceID Release 2.0 with multiple face profiles, what will you then say?
Just my opinion.
The verge and CNET gave some realistic reviews scenarios of how face ID might not work but Oh well
Add to that the extra step in opening the phone, swiping after face ID does recognize you. I can see this getting annoying after doing it dozens of times per day.
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That's a good point. When conditions are not optimal I find that touch ID fails a LOT, it's pretty much guaranteed to fail with even very mild conditions as you state. Although I share others fears about face ID being annoying, when put into perspective it probably won't have a worse fail rate than touch ID.