Two thoughts

[RobinInOR]

I'll take a guess here on this since I work in an office on a computer all day.

Possibly the thinking is that you're a little busy doing work but you know in the next couple of minutes that you need to use your phone for something. While you're busy scanning your monitor you reach over to where you know your phone is and touch the button to unlock the phone without looking at the phone because your eyes are on your monitor.

But you're still a little busy taking care of what you need to do. You finish that and then reach over to pick up your phone to do what it was you were going to do with it knowing that because you used TouchID it's already unlocked and you can directly proceed.

Having to juggle more than one thing at once at work this is a scenario I can see happening.

My guess on this anyway.

It will be interesting to see how it works. In your scenario, I look at FaceId as saving me a step. FaceID should authenticate when you do the step I’ve bolded above. No need to reach over and touch it before hand to ‘get it ready’. It’ll be so fast (theoretically) that you won’t even notice the unlockinging process. Theoretically.

 

[eyoungren]

It will be interesting to see how it works. In your scenario, I look at FaceId as saving me a step. FaceID should authenticate when you do the step I’ve bolded above. No need to reach over and touch it before hand to ‘get it ready’. It’ll be so fast (theoretically) that you won’t even notice the unlockinging process. Theoretically.

Theoretically.

I think the assumption at this time is that allowance must be made for FaceID failures.

TouchID is as quick as it is now because Apple has improved it over time. But when it first launched with the 5s there was collective groaning and gnashing of teeth here on the MR forums over it's slowness and failure rate.

It may be that people are expecting things with FaceID to go the same route. And while I would subscribe to your method of unlocking and proceeding (assuming I were to use FaceID) I believe that speediness of it is probably is not the expectation of how it will work. At least until another iPhone launch.

But we won't know until we see it in action for ourselves.

 

[Applejuiced]

Theoretically we all know how well touch ID works now with multiple versions and improvements over the years and everyone is just assuming that Face ID will be perfect and will see and read your face from all impossible angles that people hold and use their devices.
Just wait and see before trusting that everything will work perfectly as you imagine

It will be interesting to see how it works. In your scenario, I look at FaceId as saving me a step. FaceID should authenticate when you do the step I’ve bolded above. No need to reach over and touch it before hand to ‘get it ready’. It’ll be so fast (theoretically) that you won’t even notice the unlockinging process. Theoretically.