As has been mentioned multiple times already, which Touch ID phones you have the exact same quick access by double clicking the home button. And since your finger is already on the button, it'll automatically authenticate as well.With Touch ID, you'd have to activate ApplePay, either manually by opening the Wallet or automatically by tapping the phone to the payment terminal at which point, you select your card, then touch Touch ID to authenticate.
With Face ID, you have the quick access of the double clicking side button, pick the card and it'll authenticate you since you're looking at the screen, then just tap.
You can pre-authenticate with touchID as well. FaceID is clearly inferior in this scenario.
Because with Touch ID you have the additional option of simply holding the phone to the reader without doing anything else. Apple Pay with Touch ID was always brilliant in its simplicity. I still remember the keynote when Cook demoed it; if you blinked you missed it.Didn't know you could do that with TouchID, but then I have to ask how this makes FaceID inferior if they both do the same thing.
For that it uses the "Device Account Number", which the banks map back to your actual account. The last 4 of the real credit card number are only stored for cosmetic reasons, so you can recognize the card in Wallet.To me "a portion" would be the last 4 digits of the account number that show on the image of the card so you know which card it is. Seems more like it is storing the entire card number except for the CVV code. How else would it have enough information to contact the card issuer and get the new token account number assigned?
Pulling the phone out of my pocket, double clicking a button, holding it up to my face, then back down to the reader seems a lot more inconvenient that pulling the phone out of my pocket with my thumb already on the Home button for TouchID and moving it straight to the reader. This has worked flawlessly for me since my first TouchID enabled iPhone. I suppose we all have to get used to it after this year, though. Unless of course Apple pays attention and quits with this trying to force us into gimmicky tech that is not as convenient to use. But why should we expect Apple to change now, they've been doing this for decades.
Anyone who has the iPhone X knows Apple made ApplePay less convenient with Face ID. I find it more annoying than the notch.
I gave up on Apple Pay all together because stores either never activated the nfc or the employees were clueless how it worked.
Lets make everything LESS user friendly so we can sell more phones with a gimmick. What has Apple become?
There likely will be. I suspect this is an intermediate step towards something more instantaneous. The swipe up after unlock is a similarly slower process. This is probably all in place to ease people into Face ID. A simple software update would allow Face ID to go right to the home screen or place the phone on NFC to trigger Apple Pay and Face ID conformation. Apple approached things the same way with the earliest versions of Touch ID. Extra steps were required.There has to be a better solution than two taps on the power button...
Agreed. There are also benefits such as not having to remove gloves. Touch ID and Face ID both have limitations. I suspect Apple will speed up some of these processes over time as users become accustomed to Face ID.A nice thing about FaceID, and "pre-authenticating", is if the retailers machine is out of reach (happens a lot in small lunch places) you can hand them the phone like you can with a credit card.
Contrary to many posts on here saying its the same as TouchID, I recall from my 2 years of using it your finger needs to be on the reader for it to work - not the same as FaceID at all.
FaceID you have 1 minute where you can pass the phone to someone and they can tap it for you.
Also, as it is "pre-authenticated", it registers with the machine instantly, unlike TouchID which seems to take another fingerprint sample at the moment of the transaction and sometimes fails.
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Brnging it near the reader still prompts double press. I’ve not tried just using wallet but I imagine this is a safety precaution anyway. You need to Elko it a physical response because your face is now the final authentication step (and presumably you’re looking at the device during all this time).
Lets make everything LESS user friendly so we can sell more phones with a gimmick. What has Apple become?
On behalf of all Londoners - please don’t try doing this on the underground.
Holding it to your face is not a separate/necessary step. When you double click you are usually looking at your phone in a normal manner/distance. In about .5 seconds (or less) it authenticates after you double click. So its really not an extra step, maybe a slight pause. And you don't need to move it up to your nose. You hold it naturally (no one knows you are doing a face ID, it simply looks like you are glancing down at your phone). So you are looking DOWN at the phone, which is basically at your waist level. Then you move the phone several inches to the reader - bang - its done.
So hold phone in left hand normally and casually, while you are looking DOWN at it, not bringing it up to your face (you maybe tilt the phone slightly in the direction of your face, you don't move your whole ARM up to your face). Doubleclick, pause a milli-tick, move hand forward a few inches to hold near reader. Its simple, quick and easier than the old way.
With TouchID it works the same way - just double-click the home button and then hold the phone (no finger required) to the terminal or hand it to the retailer within 30-60 seconds.Contrary to many posts on here saying its the same as TouchID, I recall from my 2 years of using it your finger needs to be on the reader for it to work - not the same as FaceID at all.
FaceID you have 1 minute where you can pass the phone to someone and they can tap it for you.
FaceID @ checkout > TouchID
Rather than doing the authentication right at the same moment as purchase, you can pre-authenticate and once the reader is ready the purchase happens through your phone. With TouchID, if it didnt work for any reason this just took longer and held up lines.
Was fine for me up in London recently - just get Apple Pay up on the screen to authenticate as you're getting close to the barrier, and put your phone by the reader.Yup.
Fingerprint ID worked really smoothly on the tube… this Face ID… I have my doubts about.
Japanese iPhones are fitted with a Felica chip to accommodate the Suica/Pasmo cards that are widely used in Japan for trains/subway/buses/convenience stores/vending machines.I also tried in Japan....To no joy eventhough my UK contactless cards worked just fine. But i then heard that they use different system in the Japanese iPhones. Why they can't use the same standard I could not figure out!
As has been mentioned multiple times already, which Touch ID phones you have the exact same quick access by double clicking the home button. And since your finger is already on the button, it'll automatically authenticate as well.