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iPhone X iPhone X users - do you miss Touch ID?
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Not saying it shouldn’t, just for me it’s not something I’d want to use.
In my week’s experience with Face ID it doesn’t seem quite as reliable as Touch ID was on my 6S+, but then it’s a first generation implementation when on the 6S+ Touch ID was several generations old.
Op, what touch id loses in convenience to Face id, it makes up for in convenience in having the battery percentage indicator on the home screen. Face id = notch = no battery percentage on the home screen. Looking at our percentage is something we all do many times a day. So not only do you have to open control centre to check how much battery you have left, which in itself, is wasting battery, you gotta use two hands to do it because its a pull down from the top. Not to mention all the other things you may want to toggle from control centre. You can use reachability, but again that's an extra step.
All these people who have said its so much more convenient are only telling you half the story. There's always 2 sides to a story. Everything has a trade off.
All these people who have said its so much more convenient are only telling you half the story. There's always 2 sides to a story. Everything has a trade off.
rotlex
macrumors 6502a
I've had the X now for only a day, but so far, I'm very impressed with face id. I've been able to try it in a bunch of situations over the last day including light, dark, in car, in car at night, using Apple Pay etc. It has pretty much worked flawlessly on all occasions. So much so that I handed it to my wife then kids to make sure it wouldn't just unlock for them, lol.
Seriously though. It's been working beyond my expectations. The most surprising to me was last night in the car. I had it sitting on the console and at a traffic light, touched the screen and just glanced down at it. It unlocked. Honestly, maybe I just have an easy face to read, but I do not miss Touch ID at ALL at this point.
Seriously though. It's been working beyond my expectations. The most surprising to me was last night in the car. I had it sitting on the console and at a traffic light, touched the screen and just glanced down at it. It unlocked. Honestly, maybe I just have an easy face to read, but I do not miss Touch ID at ALL at this point.
nrvna76
macrumors 65816
Treyhunna
macrumors regular
FaceID FTW. except when I pull my phone out my pocket upside down lol
CharlesShaw
macrumors 68030
I can relate to that. There’s a vending machine at work that accepts it, so I got to try it out on the X in private.
aevan
macrumors 601
I am honestly confused with comments like this - and I don’t want to argue or anything, just expressing my confusion.
For me, Touch ID is completely unreliable. Maybe it’s my fingers or something, but every time the weather changes, every time my hands are damp, and several times a week without any good reason - Touch ID would fail. At best, it works around 80% of the time, at worst it’s around 40-50. And I had it on my iPhone, and still have it on iPad Pro and MBP - all 2nd gen Touch ID.
And not just me, that has been the experience of several of my friends. We even nicknamed Touch ID as Repeat ID, because you always have to try several times to get it to work.
Face ID, on the other hand, failed only when I got out of the bed this morning and that’s it. It’s consistenly reliable.
So, I believe you feel the way you do and maybe your experience is different (biometrics are different with different people), it’s just really strange to me.
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Sure it does, but so do bigger screens or even faster chips. We live in a physical world and heck, even.... breathing has some tradeoffs, when you think about inhaling every dust particle, potential airborne virus or bacteria around you. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t breathe 🙂 Or that Face ID isn’t vastly superior to Touch ID because (in my opinion, feel free to disagree) it most definitely is.
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newellj
macrumors G3
Hey, I've been pretty vocal and detailed about why I think TouchID works better (at least for me), and I've said that I do miss the numerical battery % readout, but honestly, at least in my opinion, to equate loss of the numerical % with the other merits or demerits of FaceID is, well...kinda crazy. 🙂
newellj
macrumors G3
Honestly, I think this thread is interesting. Leaving aside the trolls and the snippy/snarky replies, there are a lot of posts that talk about how FID and TID work for people, and it's clear that the user experience varies A LOT.
roeiz
macrumors 65816
After using FaceId for 2 days,
I think it worked more times than all the failed touch id i had for half a year before i stopped using it.
It’s also faster and seemless in real world usage.
My only gripe is the sunglasses that require disabling attention awareness.
I thought full FaceId was with sunglasses included.
I think it worked more times than all the failed touch id i had for half a year before i stopped using it.
It’s also faster and seemless in real world usage.
My only gripe is the sunglasses that require disabling attention awareness.
I thought full FaceId was with sunglasses included.
It’s the same here. Face ID is excellent, you even don’t realizing it working.
rotlex
macrumors 6502a
I seem to have no issues with sunglasses. I’ve tried my regular and my transition lenses prescriptions. Both work fine.
roeiz
macrumors 65816
Not at all. I just dislike how when Face Id fails, it won’t rescan until you dim the lock screen and turn it on again.
rotlex
macrumors 6502a
Yes. I have never turned it off, and verified it is on. (It was one of the things I was worried about).
Don’t do this. Use the passcode so it adds the data to the Face ID data has or...swipe up again. You are basically denying it the chance to learn new angles, etc by just locking the screen when it fails.
But there is no alternative to breathing. I don't even think humans can force themselves not to breath even if they tried. Even when you sleep, you're breathing and you're not even aware of it. Unless you drowned, suffocated because you were trapped in a plastic bag or were at such a high altitude that there was literally no oxygen to breath in, then you woukd stop breathing. So there really is no option and no trade off to breathing. But there is an alternative to Face ID.
My point is, most of the answers in this thread only tell half the story. Sure Face ID may be more convenient than Touch ID, but the cost of that convenience is that you lose convenience on the flip side when you need to access control centre several times a day.
If you asked two business owners how much they grossed in a year and buiness owner A showed his books which disclosed sales of $100,000 per year and business owner B's books disclosed sales of $150,000 per year, you would conclude there and then that business B was the more successful business. But you'd be foolish to buy that business based on sales alone because you don't know what each incurs in expenses to generate those sales. If you then wised up and asked both owners to disclose their costs, and A's costs were $20,000 and B's costs were $72,000, only then can you draw a conclusion on which business was more profitable.
Asking X users if they think Face ID is more convenient without factoring in the trade-off is, in my opinion, misleading to the non X user. Let's face it, Touch ID was not that bad, we all loved it, it was fast, accurate and just worked. Is Face ID so much faster and that much more convenient that it is worth the extra hassle of swiping down from the top every time you want to check your battery? I'm not sure about that. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It will come down to preference. But certainly to not even acknowledge the inconvenience on the flip side is only telling half the story. I know one thing, swiping down often enough if you're desperate to know your battery percentage will flatten it quicker.
Where's the convenience in that?
Again, the answers in this thread only tell half the story.
If, strictly, we're only interested in Face ID over Touch ID, then sure, Face ID may be more convenient for some, or even most. But anyone who doesn't look at the complete picture is only being foolish.