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Kuo: All iPhone Models in 2018 Likely to Abandon Fingerprint Recognition
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There aren't any other suitable buttons to activate it. Cant use the volume buttons and there isn't a home button anymore. One long press for Siri, double tap for Apple Pay. Wait I just realized something. How does one power off the phone if the power button or side button when pressed invokes Siri?
Love the sarcasm! Haha! Seriously though, how long will they have those features?
Your steps are out of order. Double tap side button, look at the phone if you aren’t already. Then tap to pay. This is definitely more difficult than Touch ID. I think Apples plan is for you to double tap the side button while you are looking at the phone already. That way you are authenticated instantly and then you tap to pay like normal.
Doesn't help me on my iPhone SE. I have no need to upgrade to the new iPhone X, nor do I want a phone that is that big. Prefer to be able to use my iPhone with one hand.
There is a site that shows how it's done, and they say you tap the side button twice, FIRST, then look at the camera and THEN put it to the terminal. That makes a bit more sense than fiddling with it trying to find the side button while on the terminal.
Why do people keep complaining about Apple removing things? This has been their modus operandi for years.
- 30-pin connector
- Headphone jack
- 32-bit apps
- Function row keys
- DVD drive
- Card reader
- USB-A ports / HDMI
- MagSafe
- 17” MacBook Pro
- Thunderbolt Display
- Updates to Airports and Mac Minis
- Etc.
The headphone jack is certainly important for some users. For example I use B&W P9s which are a high end pair of cans but are not wireless.
Even if whohasaquestion understood Apple's long term strategy and goals it wouldn't answer the question of why Face ID is superior to Touch ID. He's asking what technically makes one ID method better than the other, not Apple's future plans
Um, OK....bye?
Never understood why people feel the need to announce to the world things they rage quit over. Like anyone cares.
Said this in a previous post but if you believe Apple then all the steps you just listed above will happen at the same time.
Pull the phone out your pocket is one step but then the screen being awake, looking at it, it recognizes you and swipe up all happen at the same time. Theoretically. I can wait to see how fast I can get in to the phone.
Actually that’s exactly how faceis has been described. The unlock is instantaneous. It’s unlocked before you’ve even had a chance to swipe up or interact with it. Basically if it works as promised, you won’t even think about it. It will be like using an iPhone that doesn’t even have a passcode enabled... and yet it’s very secure.
Ah I see, I thought you were specifically referring to the X due to the article. I too miss one handed use and slide to unlock should at least be an option imo.
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Some of these things needed to evolve and change, or needed to be removed to make way for the future, yes. However, in the past Apple was more methodical about their process, and were not as extreme as they are now.
In the last year or so they have done away with:
- Headphone jack
- Function row keys
- Card reader
- USB-A ports / HDMI
- MagSafe
- Touch ID
Haven't heard anyone say "Yay I love having to use an adapter to listen to music and large my iPhone" or "yay now when someone trips over my laptop it will go flying across the room..."
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I read somewhere that you just keep holding it even after Siri is invoked and then the power off slider will appear.
It’s alright and I’m sorry if I sound grumpy about it but I AM Grumpymom. And really it’s frustrating because the IR emitter hurts the ever loving hell out of my eyes now. And I don’t know why. So far no damage has shown up on my exam, yet somehow the effect has been cumulative which means whatever happened inside my eyes left a permanent effect. It started with a mild sensation and now it just hurts. The last time I used the scanner it hurt for about an hour.
Now it’s starting to happen to my husband’s eyes. So he’s stopped using his scanner on his S8+.
I’ve got to hope Apple is much more careful than Samsung and did say more thorough testing than Samsung did, but I’m not guinea pigging this new tech with the only pair of eyes I’ve got. If I could go back in time and never use the blasted iris scanner on my Samsungs, knowing what would happen, I would definitely not. I did follow the directions about the safe minimum distance, too.
If there is No SE 2 next year then I’m getting A Sony or google phone. I’m done with Apple phones and laptops. I’m just over it. If face scanning is their future than I don’t want any part of it. It’s weird. It’s not cool. It’s not fun. It’s not more convenient or safer. It’s invasion of privacy and it’s creepy AF!
Not making light of your situation but you must realize there's a low hanging embassy in Cuba joke just begging to be told.
Not obsolete, just superseded by new technology. I do think 2018 MBP will have FaceID.
Your 2016 model will still have good resale value, maybe sell it in 2019 if you need a faster processor by then (or the 32GB that Intel’s Ice Lake will enable, using LPDDR4).
The iris scanner on the Note 7 hurt my eyes as well. Hoping Apples is different since it scans the entire face and not just the eyes.
Thanks for speaking up and letting me know. I kept using that damned thing well past my instincts, telling myself don’t be a hypochondriac, nobody else is having problems with it.
what about touchID on back? Samsung has that and they still have bezels.
the camera/speaker/mic/proximity needs to go somewhere.. take away faceID on X and there's still going to be a bezel up top..