It’s also documented that Apple wanted FaceId also. Who knows. Nobody has been able to get TouchID to work under a screen.
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Why abandon touchid
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They were out of options. Face-ID is very likely a last-ditch effort to make up for the lack of Touch-ID.
They need your face for FaceId. This isn’t the same as any other face identification system that’s previously been used. 3d is much more secure then 2d.
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They bought the company that invented it a couple of years ago. Not quite a last ditch attempt.
So what evidence do you have that indicates that Face ID "was a last ditch effort", even when Federighi stated himself that was completely false and never true. So should we trust your anecdotal opinion over a software engineer for Apple? If Federighi was lying, then why would he even openly talk about it in the first place. Again, I think you're just anti-Face ID, which there's nothing wrong with that, but you can't make knee-jerk assertions based off nothing.
Not to mention, the amount of research and development that went into Face ID, hardly a last ditch effort.
What?
This isn’t Samsung we’re talking about here. FaceID won’t be fooled by a photo. It’s a 3D map of your face. Highly secure (technically more secure than a finger print)
Also you won’t have to worry about data breaches. Your FaceID data is securely stored on a separate chip in the device called the Secure Enclave. The same way your current TouchID data is stored.
The phone scans your face and saves the digital data of your features. Of course it needs your face to open your phone, but the digital data about your features could be used to identify you on a store camera as well if your phone gets hacked. I don’t want everyone to know I was shopping at Victoria’s Secret... for my wife.... That info can be shared.... with my wife
The phone scans your face and saves the digital data of your features. Of course it needs your face to open your phone, but the digital data about your features could be used to identify you on a store camera as well if your phone gets hacked. I don’t want everyone to know I was shopping at Victoria’s Secret... for my wife.... That info can be shared.... with my wife
Again...what?
I think you’re very confused about what FaceID even is.
Almost everything you do is by touching. Absolutely everything you do is by looking at it.
Boom! Smackdown.
FaceID has brought out of the woodwork a lot of people who unlock their phones in their pocket and then use the phone without looking at it.
Gotta love those 0.5-1% scenarios that “prove” FaceID is a failure.
I mean, fair enough to those rare scenarios, some of them will indeed occur, but they will simply replace current annoyances like slightly wet thumbs and gloves.
You have no clue if it’s easier or not nor do you know it has zero advantages as you don’t even have one to judge
This is the future if you don’t like it stay on what iPhone you have
Or they realised how face ID could work they scrapped the under the display ID
That doesn’t prove anything.
It’s widely known among and mentioned by many of the tech journalists (especially those who have actual insider knowledge) that Apple works on many prototypes at a time for each model.
IE iPhone X probably had a prototype for what we are getting, a prototype TouchID under the display only, a prototype with both FaceID and TouchID under the display, a prototype with no notch. So on and so on.
Another example is, Apple has prototypes of MacBooks running purely on their A series chips, void of an Intel chip. And have been for a least a couple years now.
They prototype the crap out of everything and come to a conclusion of if it’s viable/ready/not ready.
Many of the rumours of TouchID under the display could have very well been true, however it also could very well just been rumours based off one of many prototypes during development. Doesn’t necessarily means that was their focus and intent all along. Many ideas in prototypes never make it to a final product, ever.
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actually i'm in uni and am allowed to use my phone in class. i just don't want to have to point it directly at my face every time like an idiot.
Sounds more idiotic to make assumptions about something you've never even tried. Most people tend to look at their phone when they use it.
The scan of your face doesn’t leave the phone in exactly the same way as your fingerprint doesn’t now.
Firstly that’s total conjecture and it doesn’t even really make sense.
The technology behind 3D facial recognition is not a let’s throw it together last minute when the finger print sensor couldn’t work.
I don’t know why people just can’t say I don’t like it and have to come up with these scenarios that just don’t matter.
I love the I need to unlock my phone without looking at it, what are you doing after you unlock it? Your looking at it.
Admittedly I haven’t used it, but FaceID just seems so... cheesy. Ooh, look at me, I can look at my phone and unlock it! It just seems so tacky to me.
Just my personal opinion, I know I’m gunna get ripped to shreds.
I’m more than happy with my 8 with TouchID, works lightning fast, barely have to touch it and it works.
Just my personal opinion, I know I’m gunna get ripped to shreds.
I’m more than happy with my 8 with TouchID, works lightning fast, barely have to touch it and it works.
That is absolutely not how FaceID works.
The map of your face is stored on the device itself and never leaves the device. Kinda now how TouchID works.
Can't get more secure than that.
Actually they converted data they scanned from your face into mathematical data and compare them to the one store on Secure Enclave. They not store image of your face at all.
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It’s doesn’t need to point directly into your face.
