Touch ID has been absolutely perfect for me on my iPhone 5s. However, if they're gonna improve it, I guess thats a good thing 
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Next-Generation iPhone Said to Feature Upgraded Touch ID With Reduced Errors
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Mine only errors if there is moisture on my hands, after washing them for example. It doesn't bother me.
You can unlock Dropbox, LastPass, and Onedrive with Touch ID. Closing the apps (depending on settings) locks them.
I think the crowd here is too young... I witnessed my 70+ year-old father unable to use Touch ID with any of his fingers, with only 1 out 10 attempts working, while mine worked perfectly every time on his phone. As we age, some fingerprints get harder to read, I think it has something to do with skin elasticity. Any improvement would be welcome.
You mean by putting my thumb on the sensor and it not unlocking
Sorry but don't blame the user when an apple product is not working perfectly.
Yes its working for you, but assuming that its perfect and working for everyone else is wrong.
Exactly. It almost never works to me, to the point that I've stopped using it entirely and just enter my passcode to unlock the phone.
Lots of anger towards macrumors. It's nearly a given that a new product will feature updated hardware, but macrumors brought the story with insider info, market data, etc. It's newsworthy. I don't understand the criticism.
As for the sensor. I can't fault mine in my iPhone 6. It works 95% of the time. If they can improve usage when your hands are moist or a little dirty, even better.
It's not like the sensors in phones like the galaxy s5, which are a pain to use.
And I'm no fanboy! I've switched from iPhone to Android to iPhone and someday I'll probably switch to Android again. I just like to try both from time to time.
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There are jailbreak apps which do exactly that.
It was one of the reasons I contemplated jailbreaking, haven't got around to it yet.
As for the sensor. I can't fault mine in my iPhone 6. It works 95% of the time. If they can improve usage when your hands are moist or a little dirty, even better.
It's not like the sensors in phones like the galaxy s5, which are a pain to use.
And I'm no fanboy! I've switched from iPhone to Android to iPhone and someday I'll probably switch to Android again. I just like to try both from time to time.
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There are jailbreak apps which do exactly that.
It was one of the reasons I contemplated jailbreaking, haven't got around to it yet.
May I ask people here how well Touch ID works when you have minor damage to your fingers?
If you work with your hands, so to speak, as opposed to say office work, and you get nicks, cuts, scrapes etc to your finger tips.
Nothing painful to you, but damage that, let's say affects the very surface of your skin, does Touch ID cope with this.
Or, will it fail as there are shapes/marks/damage to the surface of your finger?
Anyone here who works, say in a car garage and has "Mechanics Fingers/Hands" should be able to answer this.
I'm not talking of dirt, but surface layer skin damage.
Hands like this for example:
http://images.rheumatology.org/image_dir/album75696/md_06-09-0035.jpg
Just rough, hard working hands.
If you work with your hands, so to speak, as opposed to say office work, and you get nicks, cuts, scrapes etc to your finger tips.
Nothing painful to you, but damage that, let's say affects the very surface of your skin, does Touch ID cope with this.
Or, will it fail as there are shapes/marks/damage to the surface of your finger?
Anyone here who works, say in a car garage and has "Mechanics Fingers/Hands" should be able to answer this.
I'm not talking of dirt, but surface layer skin damage.
Hands like this for example:
http://images.rheumatology.org/image_dir/album75696/md_06-09-0035.jpg
Just rough, hard working hands.
The only time Touch ID hasn't worked perfectly for me with an iPhone 6 is when my thumb has been wet or there has been something on my finger (i.e. potato chip crumbs). Both of those things are easily correctable by me within two seconds so I don't see any reason to need a "better" Touch ID sensor.
I've has pretty much the same experience. Before this started, it worked about 9 times out of 10 for me. Now, it fails half the time at least. I'm hardly surprised to learn that Apple will be including an updated sensor though. Why is this news? Everything gets upgraded eventually.
The skin on my thumbs peels a lot in the winter. When that happens, Touch ID no longer works until the skins smoothes out again.
Check out the Galaxy S6. It will be thinner and lighter.
Improved fingerprint sensor, too.
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Same here. It doesn't handle damaged or cracked skin well at all. Best to have multiple fingers programmed so you can try different ones.
The sensor in the iPhone 6 is different from the 5. How is it hard to imagine that the next phone will made a hardware improvement just as every other iPhone in history has.
Basically, I have sweaty hands a lot of the time, and the touch ID had been set up like that. Both perfectly dry and slightly sweaty.
Guess what? When it was slightly sweaty, it would not set up at all...
Many people have different results... often because of differences in skin texture and variances throughout the day. Example: Touch ID almost never works for me shortly after washing hands or taking a shower (even with dry hands). Otherwise, it's mostly fine.
Many people don't put their fingers in different angles in the second leg of touch id setup. I've seen many people not reading that they're required to place their fingers with different angles and they simply lift their fingers and put it back. Hence, the problems.
We're thinking in terms of, "How often does it mis-read my fingerprint?" The banks are thinking in terms of, "How often could it register a false positive?" My understanding is the latter is a very small number (far smaller than the failed scan rate), but if, say, the system measured twice the number of data points, or was better able to detect that fake fingerprint hack, that would bring that small number even lower.
So, it's "safer" for the bank, as the bank has to cover the cost of fraudulent use.
Besides, we're effectively on Touch ID 1.1. The other mobile device makers are playing catch up, so Apple has to play, "Catch me if you can!"
That makes "better" safer for Apple's business interests. So long as Apple's statistical accuracy stays ahead of the competition, the banks are going to prefer Apple Pay to Acme Pay.