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iPhone X iPhone X: The five worst features in Apple's best phone

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iPhone X: The five worst features in Apple's best phone

Some of the article details may be a bit nick-picky but when you're talking about a 1,000 dollar phone that is supposed to be a flagship model, I think its fair game being nit-picky

Face ID never works when I most need it
Face ID, Apple's replacement for the secure fingerprint reader, uses the iPhone X's front-facing camera to approve mobile purchases and unlock the phone.

It works by making a 3D map of your eyes, nose and mouth -- except when it doesn't. Face ID recognizes me often, but fails enough times to make me notice. For example, I have about a 50-50 success rate while wearing my polarized sunglasses.
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Samsung S9 may combine face unlock and iris scanner to
offer an ‘Intelligent Scan’ feature.
 
MacDawg said:
Today's world loves to find things to pick at and to generate traffic, and that is what this comes across as to me
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By the same token, spending > 1,000 for a phone and not have one of its premier features work only 80% of time is a bit disappointing. I realize for many people it works extremely well, but I'm in the camp (as the author is), in that it doesn't always work. He stated I beleive 50%, I on the other hand find it it having a failure rate about 20%
 
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I definitely find myself checking to see if the alarm is on more often now. Hopefully, the icon will come back in an update. I find myself reaching for my iPad more than my phone so I don't have to deal with faceID first thing in the morning. FaceID sucks for me first thing in the morning.
 
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All aforementioned issues are those which I can’t agree more. Notch, failed Face ID, weird gesture system and some other smaller annoyances.
Is it really that necessary to sacrifice so much just for pleasing those bezeless lovers? Did they really want a phone that is essentially a piece of fragile glass and nothing else? I don’t know.
 
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Shirasaki said:
All aforementioned issues are those which I can’t agree more. Notch, failed Face ID, weird gesture system and some other smaller annoyances.
Is it really that necessary to sacrifice so much just for pleasing those bezeless lovers? Did they really want a phone that is essentially a piece of fragile glass and nothing else? I don’t know.
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I am so happy with my iphone X. I wanted a phone that was edge to edge without the bar on top and the bottom with ios. A weird gesture system? Do you have an X? It comes so naturally and for me I had watched so many youtube videos while waiting on my phone that when I got it the end of November, I had no issues from out of the box. But however when I pick up my ipad I find I try to swipe up instead of hitting the home button. I personally do not miss that home button at all. I have kept a case on my from day one and haven't had a problem.

As for face ID, it can be a bit glitchy but I just either type in my number or drop it and lift it to try again and this usually works. I had problems at first but i reset the face id scanner making sure my head is dropped really low. I think sometimes it doesn't want to work because people haven't set it up right.
 
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maflynn said:
By the same token, spending > 1,000 for a phone and not have one of its premier features work only 80% of time is a bit disappointing. I realize for many people it works extremely well, but I'm in the camp (as the author is), in that it doesn't always work. He stated I beleive 50%, I on the other hand find it it having a failure rate about 20%
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I am in the same camp. In my opinion, as much as I love the idea of FaceID, in its current form, it is not superior to ToucID. Its tough to make sense as to why FaceID works well for some and fails for others. Is it pure fanboyism with many folks, defending apple at all costs? Is it how differently the phones are used daily? Is it possibly faulty equipment? Is the 3D mapping unreliable for many? One of my issues is that FaceID will fail due to orientation or distance. And now I must think as to how to position my X better to allow faceID to unlock. I never had to think about how to unlock my phone with TouchID. Am I spouting doom and gloom? No, of course not. FaceID will only get better.
 
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maflynn said:
By the same token, spending > 1,000 for a phone and not have one of its premier features work only 80% of time is a bit disappointing. I realize for many people it works extremely well, but I'm in the camp (as the author is), in that it doesn't always work. He stated I beleive 50%, I on the other hand find it it having a failure rate about 20%
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Face ID, battery, gestures, etc. just haven't been the issue with me as apparently it is with others
Then again, I'm not a blogger who needs a story either
 
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MacDawg said:
Face ID, battery, gestures, etc. just haven't been the issue with me as apparently it is with others
Then again, I'm not a blogger who needs a story either
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I'm not a blogger either, but I am dealing with it.
 
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Raist3001 said:
I am in the same camp. In my opinion, as much as I love the idea of FaceID, in its current form, it is not superior to ToucID. Its tough to make sense as to why FaceID works well for some and fails for others. Is it pure fanboyism with many folks, defending apple at all costs? Is it how differently the phones are used daily? Is it possibly faulty equipment? Is the 3D mapping unreliable for many? One of my issues is that FaceID will fail due to orientation or distance. And now I must think as to how to position my X better to allow faceID to unlock. I never had to think about how to unlock my phone with TouchID. Am I spouting doom and gloom? No, of course not. FaceID will only get better.
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It's definitely not perfect and can be improved. I have some issues in the morning when I am holding too close to my face, but besides that it works reasonably well. I really like the attention aware feature and how it fills passwords and such. I think version 2 will work in landscape and more extreme angles.
 
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Maybe I'm just butt ugly, but mornings sometimes takes a couple of tries to make Face ID work. lol Anyway, the NOTCH is the worst thing ever. Watching full screen next to others shows how ridiculous the NOTCH is on full screen video.
 
kagharaht said:
Maybe I'm just butt ugly, but mornings sometimes takes a couple of tries to make Face ID work. lol Anyway, the NOTCH is the worst thing ever. Watching full screen next to others shows how ridiculous the NOTCH is on full screen video.
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I also agree with this. I have never been a fan of the notch. I don't mind the notch when I am using the phone for anything other than video. Honestly it does disappear. The moment I play a video, there is no ignoring the fact that the notch is intruding on video space. If I crop the video, now I have black bars on either side. Defeats the purpose of the all screen display. I understand why the notch is there. This does not mean in my opinion, that apple could not have thought of a better way to incorporate and hide the necessary technology. I would have much preferred to have a thin bezel at the top. The notch to me seems to be form over function, as it was a way to distinguish the X rorm all other phones.
 
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Raist3001 said:
I also agree with this. I have never been a fan of the notch. I don't mind the notch when I am using the phone for anything other than video. Honestly it does disappear. The moment I play a video, there is no ignoring the fact that the notch is intruding on video space. If I crop the video, now I have black bars on either side. Defeats the purpose of the all screen display. I understand why the notch is there. This does not mean in my opinion, that apple could not have thought of a better way to incorporate and hide the necessary technology. I would have much preferred to have a thin bezel at the top. The notch to me seems to be form over function, as it was a way to distinguish the X rorm all other phones.
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Prolly why the notch never bothers me... cause I never watch videos on my phone
 
maflynn said:
By the same token, spending > 1,000 for a phone and not have one of its premier features work only 80% of time is a bit disappointing. I realize for many people it works extremely well, but I'm in the camp (as the author is), in that it doesn't always work. He stated I beleive 50%, I on the other hand find it it having a failure rate about 20%
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So? Touch ID also never worked 100% flawlessly for absolutely everyone, but for some reason suddenly it's no problem, while Face ID is (generally speaking) a failure.
 
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Unfortunately, this is what happens with Steve Jobs is out of the picture. His vision was one of simplicity and ease of use. As the article basically says, in 10 years we've gone from something anyone could just pick up and intuitively use to needing a tutorial on complex gesture controls.
 
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Samsung S9 may combine face unlock and iris scanner to
offer an ‘Intelligent Scan’ feature.
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And it still won’t work with different head/eye wear, or dark light conditions
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ericgtr12 said:
Unfortunately, this is what happens with Steve Jobs is out of the picture. His vision was one of simplicity and ease of use. As the article basically says, in 10 years we've gone from something anyone could just pick up and intuitively use to needing a tutorial on complex gesture controls.
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They are not complicated, Took me max a day to learn - if those simple gestures are hard to learn, then its about time to get that brain exercised :p
 
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