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Testing iOS 15.4's New Face ID With a Mask Feature
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This really isn't a useful or even especially insightful response to his complaint. He *does* want an iPhone, he just wants an iPhone with an additional feature. Your answer, if extended out to its logical conclusion, would have us all still using the original iPhone, or at least one with no more features than that model had.If you don’t want it, don’t buy it. There are plenty of alternatives.
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Apple has always worked this way. Even all the way back to the original iMac (remember those colorful plastic monstrosities that make for good aquariums today?), the internals were a year or two behind the current market and other computer manufacturers. You paid top dollar for a processor or chipset that was two years old, in a brand new computer. It has always kind of been par for the course with Apple, and I suspect why their Intel models could boast the stability they could (due to two years of bug fixes already being available), but that doesn't make it not a rip-off.
At least with your iPhone you're getting the bleeding edge Apple silicon, but yes, the camera is overdue for a refresh and instead of removing TouchID in favor of FaceID, they should have put the in-screen fingerprint reader in and offered both. Even without a mask, I don't like the idea that someone can just face my phone at me and unlock it if I don't want them to. The technology may be more secure than the old finger readers (but so is the ultrasonic fingerprint reader that works under the screen), but the application and human element, not so much.
Dude, you're in Florida. Temper your expectations accordingly.
The rest of the world doesn't have Florida Man, or get confused by "dot" vs. "point", or even by butterfly ballots with arrows on them. ?
I know a man who wants a cat, but only if it barks.
The world does not exist to give you everything you want. If no manufacturer in the world makes a phone that satisfies you, start your own company and make your own phone. Otherwise, you’ll have to settle, just like the rest of us.
What I would really like to see is some form of 2-factor authentication now that we are all paying bills, doing banking, purchasing, storing our ID (i.e. digital driver's license) and credit card info, digital tokens for work, etc. on our phones.
What I envision is using your watch + FaceID, watch + TouchID, or if you forget your watch, FaceID + TouchID to unlock the phone. Apple already has the pieces and just needs to put them together.
What I envision is using your watch + FaceID, watch + TouchID, or if you forget your watch, FaceID + TouchID to unlock the phone. Apple already has the pieces and just needs to put them together.
Explain to me how you are going "suffer the consequences" when the feature is optional and you never have to use it?
And I can't see any reason why a bank or credit card issuer would specifically require you to enable FaceID with a mask. This isn't even a logical fear.
I mean, it's only weakened if you choose to enable it. Otherwise your FaceID is business as usual. So you get what you want, and those who want to unlock their phone with a mask on get what they want.
Because the precedent of deliberately weakening security is bad for everyone in the long term. You can disagree if you wish.
Fair enough..but in most other regions this isn’t an issue and a fast under display Touch ID will be much more intuitive and easier.
I never had issues with Touch ID but usFace ID sometimes fails and it’s REALLY annoying when it happens .
I own a 13 Pro Max so the latest version too.
they really should give people both options.
I know android face scan isn’t as accurate and sophisticated as Face ID but they’ve been offering both under display fingerprint scanner and face unlock for years..
See, it has been the exact opposite for me. Touch ID was always notoriously bad back with my iPhone 6 & 7 Plus and still with my iPad Pro 12.9" (2015). My hands dry out so quickly and unless I have them lotioned, I get constant problems. I have tried countless times to reprogram my fingerprints, I have also had 4 fingers always programmed in (Index and Thumb on both hands), just always have problems where I need to enter my passcode (which I have set to alphanumeric). Face ID has always just worked for me with my iPhone X and iPhone 12 Pro. Since getting the update to be able to unlock with Mask while wearing my Apple Watch, that has worked great as well for me to unlock with mask, but I have had the issues where I get a notification that my phone unlocked by the watch without me interacting with it.
I think it’s a fair concern: if someone has our phone and our PIN number, they can do a lot of damage. So much more stuff is hypothetically readily accessed on a lost/stollen phone vs a lost/stollen wallet.
I don’t plan to own a watch. If I did, it would only be worn during exercise sessions.
If you have "require attention for Face ID" enabled, then you only need to close your eyes to block that.