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New York City's MTA Urges Apple to Further Protect Riders During Pandemic
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I've been saying that FaceID was a flawed solution for sometime. I'm a motocyclist and having to remove my helmet (complete with BT microphone/speakers) to use FaceID is silly.
TouchID is far easier for people who have to wear face coverings.
The solution is to make phones that have both.
TouchID is far easier for people who have to wear face coverings.
The solution is to make phones that have both.
Why not go back to slide to unlock with PIN then? Biometrics are for ease of use; if bypassed what is the purpose of paying for them in a device?
They are NOT more secure people. That is why your PIN should be a complex password still. If you fail biometric scanning it defaults to the PIN which can still be breached. Buying that biometrics are "more secure" login is Apple marketing speak when it defaults back to a PIN if it fails to read.
That is not for security then. Any true secure biometric system would time out and make you wait to try again and again (to some set point or a 2nd biometric factor- hence why I keep pushing having both on a device as "2 factors") not go to a PIN
Biometrics are for ease of access, which isnt easy if you cant use them. We mine as well go back to slide to unlock and a PIN then; at least no notch needed.
Apple could put the PIN keypad on screen while FaceID is working, so the user doesn't have to wait for it to fail.
So my only issue with all this, and this may just be me and my phone for some reason, is whenever I enter my 6 digit code I will type it out and the damn interface only understands like 60% of my key presses so I have to re-enter it again just very slowly. Like every time. Does this happen to anyone else?
This is a very good point. I wonder how those discussions went when they were developing it.
really it's the people's job to not be super lazy and take the extra second to enter a pass code. i don't understand why they are trying to put this on apple, there will always be that ****** coughing with his mask on his chin, no apple innovation will fix this.
I’m sure this is an almost uniquely (US) American problem.
yes i should. i dont mean to be an ******, i just get flustered easily, especially when there is a long line.
I agree! Surgeons wear mask for hours during open heart or brain surgery.
It's so quick now that its not worth it. By the time I think "Oh I should use the passcode" the touch pad is displaying
What you have just suggested is one of the reasons why this mask wearing idea is only intelligent if done correctly. Once a mask is removed or lowered it should be replaced by a new one. I see many idiots on news reports wearing the mask under their chin when speaking or walking around. Or they hold in in one hand or put it in a pocket for a while. Not correct.
Obviously Touch ID coming back would help, but that would depend on hundreds of millions of users buying a new expensive phone.
Yes, but how many of those are the latest and most expensive? iPhone 11 Pro probably only accounted for a quarter of all sales.
Well, I hate to tell you, NO ONE is going to replace their mask every time they take it off, especially if it's the non-disposable kind. It's hard enough to get people to wear them at all.
It doesn't matter, though. The MAIN POINT of wearing masks is to keep people from spraying covid everywhere if they are infected. If people re-use masks a dozen times it will still do this very important job. We just need to get everyone to wear masks and the incidence of infection will go down drastically.