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Is the Touch ID on the SE the same as the one on the 6?

pretty confident it has the old 5s touch ID. and it has the old display of 5s too. i have seen the display of 6s in store and im blown by that. looking at my 5s display now feels not as vibrant.
 
Touch ID is really the only disappointment here for me. Don't kind the lack of 3d touch. Don't kind the old screen. That old touch ID was rather slow though.
 
ive never had touch id, the last iphone I had was a 5c, is the difference between the first and second generation really that big? I would prob not notice it as ive never had touch ID on a phone?
 
Apple had a surplus of random 5S and 6S parts they cobbled together, so it's not a huge surprise. If you're in the market for a 4" phone I don't think this is a huge concession. Even the iOS tweaks to the first gen TouchID make it fairly reliable.

Second gen is still much improved though, unless you like staring at your lockscreen. I imagine those people may also prefer incandescent light bulbs and horse drawn carriages. :D
 
I'm thinking of selling my 6 and going with the SE for a yeah to see what the 7S brings, but I use  pay a lot and don't want to have reduced functionality there. Is the Touch ID the same on the SE as the 6? I know the 6s is way faster but I assume I won't miss what I don't already have. Thanks!
 
Seems like it would be the same (as is the case with 5s).
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12vElectronics said:
First Gen TouchID. Just like in the 6/6+. It's slow.
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It's perhaps not as fast as the new generation, but I wouldn't call it slow by any means (I mean perhaps for some people it might be for some reason, perhaps similar to how some people have some battery issues or something else of that sort).
 
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C DM said:
Seems like it would be the same (as is the case with 5s).
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It's perhaps not as fast as the new generation, but I wouldn't call it slow by any means (I mean perhaps for some people it might be for some reason, perhaps similar to how some people have some battery issues or something else of that sort).
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Sorry it's ridiculously slow.
 
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Does anyone think the Touch ID cable in the iPhone SE will stick out just like the iPhone 5s? Or do you think it'll be rerouted like in the 6/6s?
 
I still find the 6s
touch ID a little fast on the home screen, but I do appreciate the speed when using apps that need it in place of a password.

I could definitely live with the slower touch ID if I wanted to go to 4" phone though.
 
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Does anyone think the Touch ID cable in the iPhone SE will stick out just like the iPhone 5s? Or do you think it'll be rerouted like in the 6/6s?
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Where/how does the cable stick out?
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cableguy84 said:
It has the first generation touch id which is ridiculously slow.
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What exactly does "ridiculously slow" mean in this context?
 
C DM said:
Where/how does the cable stick out?
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What exactly does "ridiculously slow" mean in this context?
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It means i owned both the 5s and 6, and the touch id is very slow in comparison to the iphone 6s. So slow i would find it unusable if i was to go back to the 5s/6
 
cableguy84 said:
It means i owned both the 5s and 6, compared to the 6s it is very slow. So slow i would find it unusable if i was to go back to the 5s/6
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Being slower than something that is fast doesn't make something else ridiculously slow or even slow on its own. Since car analogies are so popular and fun, if you have a fast car that you use to drive at 65 MPH and then have a faster car that you use to drive at 100 MPH, sure one is certainly noticeably faster, but it doesn't make the 65 MPH one slow, let alone ridiculously slow. Now, if you are saying that it's more like 25 MPH, then I guess that would fall under that, but I can't say that my experience would support it working like that.
 
It's all very subjective. The touch id on the 6 didn't feel slow. Until I got a 6s, and now it does feel slow. I can completely understand how someone can say the first gen touch id is terribly slow. The better car analogy is if you drive 100 mph every day, then suddenly get a car that can only go to 65 mph. That will feel terribly slow.


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Being slower than something that is fast doesn't make something else ridiculously slow or even slow on its own. Since car analogies are so popular and fun, if you have a fast car that you use to drive at 65 MPH and then have a faster car that you use to drive at 100 MPH, sure one is certainly noticeably faster, but it doesn't make the 65 MPH one slow, let alone ridiculously slow. Now, if you are saying that it's more like 25 MPH, then I guess that would fall under that, but I can't say that my experience would support it working like that.
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Paco II said:
It's all very subjective. The touch id on the 6 didn't feel slow. Until I got a 6s, and now it does feel slow. I can completely understand how someone can say the first gen touch id is terribly slow. The better car analogy is if you drive 100 mph every day, then suddenly get a car that can only go to 65 mph. That will feel terribly slow.
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Well, comparatively perhaps you can say that, but just on its own it can hardly be said that 65 MPH is slow, let alone terribly slow. To put it more in context, for many of those who would be going with the SE, they would be coming from devices that either don't have any TouchID (pre-iPhone 5s) or devices that have the first generation TouchID (iPhone 5s or perhaps 6) so that comparative part wouldn't really even apply.
 
Agreed, if moving from same to same of course a user will not notice. I'm just saying I can totally understand someone saying first gen is slow. In terms of 65mph, your same argument can be made about 25 mph. To someone that's never had anything beyond their own two feet, that would be quite fast.

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Well, comparatively perhaps you can say that, but just on its own it can hardly be said that 65 MPH is slow, let alone terribly slow. To put it more in context, for many of those who would be going with the SE, they would be coming from devices that either don't have any TouchID (pre-iPhone 5s) or devices that have the first generation TouchID (iPhone 5s or perhaps 6) so that comparative part wouldn't really even apply.
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Agreed, if moving from same to same of course a user will not notice. I'm just saying I can totally understand someone saying first gen is slow. In terms of 65mph, your same argument can be made about 25 mph. To someone that's never had anything beyond their own two feet, that would be quite fast.
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I dont feel this argument holds up too well. Simply because I always felt the first gen touch id was slow, even before gen 2.

The touch id in the 6s is a great piece of technology. End of
 
Just moved from the 6 to 6s yesterday. If I didn't see this thread I would not have known that the touch id was different.
 
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