That’s great to know. I’ve been a bit apprehensive about leaving Touch ID behind along with other things but I finally went ahead and got the X. It’s coming on Monday. I’m looking forward to it now.
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iPhone X Face ID is crap....
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I'm, sure you will love it, it gets used to your face over time too so it will get better over time too. I'm like you that i wasn't sure going from the plus to this size wise but i'm totally loving the same and it's not been a hard adjustment at all.
Had mine for 2 weeks and FaceID seems to work about 80% of the time. Sometimes it just refuses to even work at all. I also don't think its as quick as TouchID either. Don't get me wrong its really clever and when it works its awesome but just seems a little unreliable at present.
I have been posting this suggestion frequently because it seems to halve made a huge difference for me with FaceID. Try scanning in moderate, even light with the phone held as far away from your face as possible. I think you will find both the phone is much less sensitive to angle and the distance.
I meant in comparison to the facial recognition on the note 8. However I’ve always found Touch ID to be very reliable so if it’s better than that I’ll be extremely satisfied.
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Thanks I will try this when I set it up.
That's a good joke that Apple wants you to believe.
It's not that secure and can be foolled very easy. Any of your siblings or even total strangers that resemble you a little can unlock your device.
That is not possible with fingerprint technology.
This has been my experience as well, and I also have a wireless charger that stands the phone up-right. It works so effortlessly and consistently that you can actually forget your phone is being unlocked. And I find it particularly useful when opening an app that must be unlock or requires you to log in, because no extra thought or effort is required. IMO, FaceID is definitely a welcomed advancement in biometric technology.
Exactly. Mine has worked flawlessly for me. I’ve posted on many threads now about that. It’s now liked it’s not even locked it works so well and fast for me. No problems at all.
Also to the person who says no notifications on the lock screen, mine shows all on the lock screen again no problems at all.
Also to the person who says no notifications on the lock screen, mine shows all on the lock screen again no problems at all.
FaceID is so perfect for me, it's like carrying a phone that doesn't lock. TouchID was OK unless your hands were damp, then it was a total failure.
2 seconds correction? Depends on what your password complexity is I guess.
Our company requires a very complex password (or you cannot access emails)- symbols, numbers, long - the works.
Symbols especially are a pain on the keyboard
- If I had to enter it once a day to check emails etc. it would be a phone returning fail for me.
As it is I only have enter password ever on a reboot with touch id.
Would love for it to work though, so following with interest - but haven't had the chance to see it live in action yet.
I’ve had my X now for a few days. And I am very impressed with FaceID. There is alot I love about FaceID. For me, FaceID has been working very well. And the times it does fail, it learns after entering your password, and won’t fail in the same situation. For Example. If I cover my eye with my hand, FaceID will fail. After entering my password, my X learns the new situation, and on the next scan, unlocks my phone
FaceID is very fast. For someone who loves TouchID, I was not convinced on the speed of FaceID, But after using the X for a few days, I can say with conviction, that FaceID is fast. It’s just there and works without any thought. The moment I lift my phone and glance at it, it is unlocked. I know people will use the example of having your phone unlocked before you pull your phone out of your pocket with TouchID. I myself used this as an example of the speed of TouchID. However, in both instances, you are looking at your phone. With TouchID, your phone is unlocked before pulling it out of your pocket, and then you need to look at your phone to use. With Face ID, I pull my phone out of my pocket, glance at it, and Its unlocked. Seems trivial now that I ever argued this point of view. And now that I have been using FaceID, it feels like a step backwards when I use my wife’s 7+.
I have been using my X in many of my day to day uses. So if my phone is docked in my car, I have no issues with my X unlocking once I glance at it. I use a dock on my desk at work, and also have no issues with my X unlocking. Now these situations are unique to me, and I understand others will not have the same experience. But for me, I have a very high unlock rate. And in the event of a fail, entering my password fixes the situation.
In my opinion, The swipe up needs to go. Its an awkward step in my opinion. I should be able to glance at my phone and be on the homescreen. I wish we had the option to change this as we did with TouchID where we had the option of not pressing home to get to the home screen.
In any event, I am a big fan of FaceID and everything FaceID can offer. I just hope Apple explores this technology more than they did with TouchID. How great would the touch sensor have been if we could have used gestures with it? Swiping right or left to scroll thru background apps? 3D touch seems underdevoloped. Wish we could 3D touch on any apple app and get the option to move icons instead of lightly touching an app to invoke the wiggle. But I digress. I love FaceID and I am thrilled I changed my mind and upgraded to the X. I will definitly be upgrading again in 2018 if Apple releases a plus size
FaceID is very fast. For someone who loves TouchID, I was not convinced on the speed of FaceID, But after using the X for a few days, I can say with conviction, that FaceID is fast. It’s just there and works without any thought. The moment I lift my phone and glance at it, it is unlocked. I know people will use the example of having your phone unlocked before you pull your phone out of your pocket with TouchID. I myself used this as an example of the speed of TouchID. However, in both instances, you are looking at your phone. With TouchID, your phone is unlocked before pulling it out of your pocket, and then you need to look at your phone to use. With Face ID, I pull my phone out of my pocket, glance at it, and Its unlocked. Seems trivial now that I ever argued this point of view. And now that I have been using FaceID, it feels like a step backwards when I use my wife’s 7+.
I have been using my X in many of my day to day uses. So if my phone is docked in my car, I have no issues with my X unlocking once I glance at it. I use a dock on my desk at work, and also have no issues with my X unlocking. Now these situations are unique to me, and I understand others will not have the same experience. But for me, I have a very high unlock rate. And in the event of a fail, entering my password fixes the situation.
In my opinion, The swipe up needs to go. Its an awkward step in my opinion. I should be able to glance at my phone and be on the homescreen. I wish we had the option to change this as we did with TouchID where we had the option of not pressing home to get to the home screen.
In any event, I am a big fan of FaceID and everything FaceID can offer. I just hope Apple explores this technology more than they did with TouchID. How great would the touch sensor have been if we could have used gestures with it? Swiping right or left to scroll thru background apps? 3D touch seems underdevoloped. Wish we could 3D touch on any apple app and get the option to move icons instead of lightly touching an app to invoke the wiggle. But I digress. I love FaceID and I am thrilled I changed my mind and upgraded to the X. I will definitly be upgrading again in 2018 if Apple releases a plus size
It's more than secure. I'm not too concerned with somebody trying to tamper with my iPhone. For those who have siblings or even strangers, the chances of them having their iPhone unlocking their successfully by someone else is highly rare. Apple did say that there would be a chance of the iPhone would be unlocked if you had a twin or some that resembled you. But For the majority, it's the total strangers they don't want handling their iPhone that would want to try to unlock it, but can't because they likely don't share physical characteristics due to Face ID.
Nope thats never going to happen. If anything FP scanner is old tech now. I don't expect any FP scanners on the market in 2-3 years
You know that isn't true. If it could be so easily fooled then people would be returning it in droves. The inter webs would be full of stories of people returning the X.
It's very true and there's plenty of videos showing that.
Also Apple says straight out that it doesn't work with young kids faces.
So it's really far from reliably being better than Touch ID fingerprint recognition.
It's a gimmick feature and very insecure.
Mine has been flawless and no-one besides myself has been able to unlock it. I guess my phone is a unicorn......
No there hasn't at all. There's been examples of twins where it doesn't work. If it wasn't secure then it would be major news.
End of the day if somebody wants your phone that badly they will get it. It's your job to protect it.
That's what you would like to think.
Reality is far from it.
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Wrong.
There has been many videos with children unlocking their parents iphones cause they look similar.
As far as identical twins that's obviously easy to get in.
There's also many videos with people that look similar but they are not even related that unlock the iphone X and many other instances.
Its far from secure or even close to being more secure than touch ID.
End of the day offcourse you gotta protect your own device falling to the wrong hands but lets not get crazy that this thing is more secure cause its clearly not even close to fingerprint recognition.
If you do a search on google or youtube you'll find plenty.
Here's the one we were talking about here about a month ago.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-questionable-mask-spoofing-surfaces.2088410/
this article is a good example on who it could be fooled
https://www.imore.com/face-id-sibling-fud
That video is not normal and if it was then face ID would be useless. So really there's one case of this happening. It isn't the norm and makes me think her son was there when she set it up in a way to fool face ID