But your face would still need to be within its field of view to activate the face unlock. It's not the eye of Sauron!
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What if Face ID works BETTER Than Touch ID for iPhone 8? Would you miss Touch ID ?
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What reports?
If it’s the case then, and it’s works as well or better than fingerprint then I’m sold.
Bunch of reports mentioned in these forums. As I say no clue how accurate they are but I imagine Apple will have thought this through in great detail.
Well yeah obviously but why would you want to unlock it with it facing away? Whenever I use Apple Pay I can see the screen, so I have to think the IR camera will be able to see me
I can unlock my phone with Touch ID even if I'm not looking at it or it's faced downwards.
Well, but all options are half-baked at best. Both the iris scanner as well as the face unlock feature have been tricked. And Apple would have been torn to pieces if they had implemented the same placement of the fingerprint sensor. But Samsung of course is celebrated. Let's just call it a day. You like Samsung and I like Apple.
I want solutions that work. Apple was never the first. And it's not about being the first.
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Yes, that is my main use-case. Unlocking my phone without looking at it. -.-
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Yes, but what is the problem with unintentional unlocking? We have found code that indicate that there is awareness detection. So if you look at your phone it unlocks, but if you stop locking or someone takes your phone (while your on the lockscreen) the phone would lock again.
But what about if I just want to check the time or look at my notifications?
Touch ID has also been spoofed that doesn't make it insecure to me. I still feel safe in the knowledge that my iPhone and iPad Pro have Touch ID.
Look at my signature I like Apple too, more than Samsung. I just don't think the iPhone X is good value for money. I'm still keeping my 7 plus and all my other apple products.
When you put your finger on Touch ID (without pressing anything) your phone is unlocked but stays on the lock screen. You then lock your phone when putting it away? The same will happen with Face ID. When you are on the combined lock / notification screen, your face will continuously be scanned. As long as your face is there it's unlocked, as soon as your phone is put away it locks again. I don't really see the problem here?
But I think it will be quite quick so if I want to read my notifications it might have Unlocked already.
If Touch ID was still there I wouldn't be concerned because I could just disable face unlock if it was giving me problems. I don't want to go back to using a passcode.
Yes, but i still don't get what the problem is when it is unlocked? The view on your screen will be the same? And as soon as the phone turns of the screen it's locked again. And Apple has raise to wake, maybe they have something similar for the other way around (something like lower to lock or so)
Unlocking the phone doesn't mean its going to the homescreen. It means you CAN go to the home screen without entering a pin, but you will have to swipe or something to get there.
Not one bit.
If — big if — it works as well or better than touch ID.
We shall see…
From how it's been described, it'll be seamless and unlock when you're paying attention to the screen, and then lock when you put it away. Honestly, a lot of unknown fine details here in this regard. At this point tomorrow will bring a lot of clarity to the subject.
Good point, oh wait didn’t people (Craig Federighi) already use it today!
Yup it seemed to work well after they screwed up by grabbing the phone that was restarted prior. Apparently all the hands on afterwards say it worked every time under a variety of circumstances also.