iPhone X iPhone X users - do you miss Touch ID?

[TorontoSS]

Hi everyone - just as the question says, (particularly iPhone 6s and 7 users since there was faster Touch ID)

Do you miss Touch ID? This is the main thing holding me back from upgrading my 7.

I use Touch ID all the time for things like coffees and apps for banking and also using the London Underground.

I’m travelling to Canada this Christmas so the phone will be a BIT cheaper than the UK, just wondering if I’ll miss my 7?

Thoughts?

Is Face ID cumbersome compared to Touch ID?

 

[Zune55]

Hi everyone - just as the question says, (particularly iPhone 6s and 7 users since there was faster Touch ID)

Do you miss Touch ID? This is the main thing holding me back from upgrading my 7.

I use Touch ID all the time for things like coffees and apps for banking and also using the London Underground.

I’m travelling to Canada this Christmas so the phone will be a BIT cheaper than the UK, just wondering if I’ll miss my 7?

Thoughts?

Is Face ID cumbersome compared to Touch ID?

To be honest Face ID is much faster and convenient then Touch ID. Not missing touch ID at all.

 

[webbuzz]

I don’t miss it at all.

 

[Tosic]

Nope don’t miss it one bit.

 

[Newtons Apple]

Maybe at first but not after a few days. Now I do not even think about it as it has worked so well.

 

[CharlesShaw]

Let X = X

I don’t miss it a bit and face id has been placed in some very handy places.

 

[Type4O]

Nope. Face ID is much faster and unobtrusive. Apple Pay is more convenient.

 

[DiveKitty]

Not at all.

Face ID works for all those apps you say you use Touch ID for...banking apps, Apple Pay, and is much more convenient, in my opinion and experience. Lots of people only seem to think of Face ID for the unlocking (mainly those who do not have it) but the true wonder of it is in when actually interacting with your phone day to day.

I actually look at my iPad's and resent they don't have Face ID.

 

[TorontoSS]

That is very interesting NONE of you miss it. So when you pay for coffee for example, you have to look at your phone right? That takes less time than Touch ID?

 

[DiveKitty]

That is very interesting NONE of you miss it. So when you pay for coffee for example, you have to look at your phone right? That takes less time than Touch ID?

So, if I want to pay with Apple Pay for example...I just tap the side button twice, it recognizes my face almost immediately, then I just hold to the reader. Done. I find it very fast.

Face ID even gets better as you use it, as it is machine learning. If it fails you use passcode (don't cancel or reset) and it will take that data information (from the angle, and so on) and use it for the future.

 

[TorontoSS]

So, if I want to pay with Apple Pay for example...I just tap the side button twice, it recognizes my face almost immediately, then I just hold to the reader. Done. I find it very fast.

Face ID even gets better as you use it, as it is machine learning. If it fails you use passcode (don't cancel or reset) and it will take that data information (from the angle, and so on) and use it for the future.

Wow that is pretty cool. So it appears no one misses the finger print! And all of your banking apps use Face ID such as say PayPal?

 

[jtrue28]

Not one bit.

Actually find myself trying to swipe up when I'm messing with my wife's 8+.

 

[testcard]

Don’t miss it at all. For me, Face ID is much faster than Touch ID. I would have problems on very cold, dry days with my fingerprints not being recognised at the first attempt. Two days with my X and Face ID hasn’t failed once. It’s also great having a couple of apps, including 1Password, working with Face ID to log in.

 

[applewatch]

Nope. Not at all.

 

[mcarthon]

thats the one thing i thought i would miss but faceid works better all around with bank apps and all that stuff

 

[Sirious]

I do miss it - especially when Face ID fails...

 

[iapplelove]

Not at all.

 

[ray737]

Hi everyone - just as the question says, (particularly iPhone 6s and 7 users since there was faster Touch ID)

Do you miss Touch ID? This is the main thing holding me back from upgrading my 7.

I use Touch ID all the time for things like coffees and apps for banking and also using the London Underground.

I’m travelling to Canada this Christmas so the phone will be a BIT cheaper than the UK, just wondering if I’ll miss my 7?

Thoughts?

Is Face ID cumbersome compared to Touch ID?

I had an iPhone 7 Plus. I do not miss Touch ID at all. To me Face ID is even faster. The only thing I had to adjust to was using Apple Pay. With Apple Pay u must unlock first with Face ID then place the phone next to the card reader.

 

[RJEvans]

Yes!

When FaceID works, it’s faster than TouchID. However, I find about 1/5 scans fail to unlock because I’m either too close or too far or on the wrong angle in relation to my phone. I never had that problem with TouchID. No matter how close, far or what angle I was in relation to my phone, TouchID worked. TouchID failed to unlock once in a blue moon. So technically, if you were to total up the time FaceID failed and I had to enter the passcode, it is way more inconvenient than TouchID.

 

[andyw715]

Nope. Its especially nice when either
A) on the other phone when the finger id button had smudges on it
B) fingers aren't totally clean/dry/etc

Don't have to worry about that. And since I don't wear a Halloween mask all the time the opportunity for failure is much less.

 

[TorontoSS]

I had an iPhone 7 Plus. I do not miss Touch ID at all. To me Face ID is even faster. The only thing I had to adjust to was using Apple Pay. With Apple Pay u must unlock first with Face ID then place the phone next to the card reader.

With Touch ID you double click on the home button - and with Face ID you double click the side right - is the unlocking more annoying with Face ID then?
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Yes!

When FaceID works, it’s faster than TouchID. However, I find about 1/5 scans fail to unlock because I’m either too close or too far or on the wrong angle in relation to my phone. I never had that problem with TouchID. No matter how close, far or what angle I was in relation to my phone, TouchID worked. TouchID failed to unlock once in a blue moon. So technically, if you were to total up the time FaceID failed and I had to enter the passcode, it is way more inconvenient than TouchID.

So you miss it? How long have you had the X?

 

[thejadedmonkey]

My wife loves it when it works. Which isn't all of the time.
I don't like it that much, mostly because I can't register my face on my wife's phone, and have to enter the password all of the time. All things considered, it seems like a step backwards.

 

[MDF314159265]

I don't like it that much, mostly because I can't register my face on my wife's phone, and have to enter the password all of the time.

Da*n... trust issues??


I love Face ID. Touch ID was nice, but this is clearly the next step. It works like an  product should.

 

[D.T.]

So when you pay for coffee for example, you have to look at your phone right? That takes less time than Touch ID?

For the most part, because while you don't necessarily _have_ to look at your phone during a transaction (using TID), the experience in actual use is, you do! With FID, it's not much different: I pull out my phone, double click while glancing at it to confirm the card/operation, it auths, ready to complete the transaction.

It's kind of hard to describe unless you've had some hands on with it, but it's _way_ more natural and fluid than I think some people realize. It's not like really discrete steps, with one being holding the phone straight out, directly in front of you, pausing, clicking, staring at it with very specific attention.

Where FID really gets slick is the seamless 2-step auth for apps like DropBox, PP, even banking apps (my two primaries have updated to support FID). You can slide to the app using the button switch gesture and it just opens without any active authentication step.

 

[RJEvans]

So you miss it? How long have you had the X?

Yes, I do miss it. Coming from the 6S. Had it since launch. I've adjusted how to use it. Remembering to hold it a certain distance. I have been impressed with the speed and that it works in pitch black. But I often have to either rescan or enter the passcode when I'm laying down or sitting (with phone resting on the table). That's added time to unlock. So when people say it's faster, sure, when it works. But in aggregate, for me, no. I've spent more time putting in passcodes in the last two weeks with the iPhone X than I did during the 2 years I owned the 6S. I'm happy with the device otherwise. I'm not returning the phone. I'm just going to adjust.