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Touch ID worse on 7.1.1

Is Touch ID Better for you?

  • It's definitely better

    Votes: 47 38.2%

  • It's about the same

    Votes: 44 35.8%

  • It's worse

    Votes: 17 13.8%

  • I don't have a 5S - I just wanted to vote.

    Votes: 15 12.2%
  • Total voters
    123
  • Poll closed .
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seble

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Original poster
Anyone else finding that their touch ID is actually functioning much worse on 7.1.1? With 7.1 my touch ID was nearly flawless, now it nearly always doesn't work...
 
I never had any issues before 7.1.1. I was always pretty happy with it.

But I now think it's improved... Sometimes now it unlocks the phone with a quick tap of the button (removing finger straight away)... don't even need to keep the finger in place.
 
That's a shame, looks like most poeple are getting on okay with theirs. I'll redo the prints and see if that improves things...
 
For me 7.1.1 is like 100x better than even 7.1
Never had it enabled before due to the extra time when it didn't recognize but now everything just works, I'm so happy they lowered the threshold or whatever they did
 
dhlizard said:
TouchID has been a disgrace since Apple introduced it. 🙁
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Sarcasm or?

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big samm said:
Mine is slower to recognize my finger... Maybe i have to set it up again because of the update...
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Since I posted, I haven't reset my fingers but it actually seems to be a little bit quicker now when it does work, but it's still not as great at always getting my finger. Here's to hoping there are even further improvements.
 
It's a good idea to do a new fingerprint impression with the new update. Specially if you were having trouble with the previous impressions.
 
On 7.1, I was able to unlock with half a finger print on there, which I have it set like that in the scanning set up. 7.1.1 seems to have made half finger unlock take longer/not work as well. But still better than 7.0. Kinda sucks as 7.1 unlocked much easier, at least it feels like.
 
Touch ID on 7.0 was lickety–split, but now it takes a half second longer to unlock. iOS 7 is just a nightmare. Give me the cosmetics of iOS 7, but the stability of iOS 6.
 
I agree totally with the opener. I had almost no problems up until 7.1.1. Now I run regularly into problems and have to unlock my phone with my password. I also trained TouchId from scratch to no avail.
 
It's recommended to wash your hands and properly dry it before setting up Touch ID. Nobody in my circle complains about Touch ID, so it must be incidental for those of you who seem to have trouble with it.
 
I have about a 90% success rate with Touch ID. The other 10% I have to realign my thumb and then it works. It does take less time to unlock iPhone 5s with my fingerprint... But since I am not part of the whiny "Ugh-that-millisecond-I-needed" group of people I don't really see an important difference.
 
I was thoroughly impressed today actually. Only a few minutes after getting out of the shower I was able to use the TouchID with a still somewhat pruney finger, something that definitely wasn't happening before.
 
I had to get my 5S replaced after 7.1 update. It rendered my TID completely unusable. This new phone is perfect. Take the phone to Apple store and let them check it out...
 
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