This is where I think Apple could improve how the sensors are reading lying down with different positions and the accuracy with Face ID. It's not necessarily the speed of Face ID that needs to be improved, it's the overall variations of how somebody is using it based on their posture.
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iPhone X Face ID is crap....
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This is where I think Apple could improve how the sensors are reading lying down with different positions and the accuracy with Face ID. It's not necessarily the speed of Face ID that needs to be improved, it's the overall variations of how somebody is using it based on their posture.
2 months in with the X and Face ID has been very solid. Prefer it over Touch ID. Which I’ve had every variant of the iPhone.
I love Face ID so much over Touch ID and hope the whole industry kills fingerprints.
You can use them and be a thing that you don’t want to be.
You can use them and be a thing that you don’t want to be.
Face ID is unlikely to completely replace fingerprint scanning until it is developed into a more affordable technology.
I don’t see why there is not room for both to be honest? If crimes can be solved due to the uniqueness of somebody’s fingerprint I don’t see why many now claim it’s unreliable and ‘ancient’ when unlocking a mobile phone? It seems to be more of a bragging right at the moment to rubbish other methods when in reality they are both good at what they do.
I don’t see why there is not room for both to be honest? If crimes can be solved due to the uniqueness of somebody’s fingerprint I don’t see why many now claim it’s unreliable and ‘ancient’ when unlocking a mobile phone? It seems to be more of a bragging right at the moment to rubbish other methods when in reality they are both good at what they do.
Makes me wonder if the cheaper 6.1 inch LCD model which is rumored will still include touch ID
It’s going to be a massive looking phone whatever method it uses so hopefully there will be a smaller variant to join it. My preference right now is TouchID as long as it’s not a phablet.
Huge LOL on this thread. I watched Bladerunner 2049 last night with my 27 year old son and his girlfriend. There's a scene where someone "defeats" a face ID system by holding up the (dead) victim's face to the scanner. I was thinking: Apple's system is much more secure than that, at least with attention awareness turned on. 
Quick question, can you unlock an iPhone X single handed and quickly? I checked a few videos online and they all use two hands? One to hold and the other to swipe the screen and press the side button. If this was the case I find it a bit cumbersome compared to TouchID as I love unlocking my (old) iPhone 6 with just 1 hand...
Yes. You can do tap to wake or raise to wake and then swipe up and it will unlock. Bare in mind I’ve been using the plus sized phones since they came out and before that Samsung phablets so I’ve become adept at using large phones with one hand when it’s necessary. I don’t have big hands.
If you use Rise to Wake, you can just lift the phone and look at it. Otherwise, you need two hands because you need to tap the screen.
I can tap the screen with the same hand I’m holding it with. I can even use the side button to wake the screen with the same hand I’m holding the phone with.
Because for security there are much better methods than a fingerprint - whilst not bad, you simply wouldn't see it in proper secure access controls. Nothing to do with bragging rights, bit weird display of your mindset if that is what you think other people do.
In actual practise I find face ID much faster and more integrated as well.
There is nothing ‘weird about my mindset’, purely an observation from plenty of examples.
I can't/couldn't tap with the same hand (and I have very big hands), but you're right, you could click the side button to wake it. Didn't occur to me when I had them.
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Thanks all, very good news then
See the post above about using the side button. That should work.
In general, I found the X a not-terribly-friendly one-hand phone. The tradeoff with the long screen (which is very nice when reading something) is that the top of the screen is a real reach, and the gesture used for reachability is IMHO pretty fiddly.
Don’t find it difficult at all to tap and swipe to unlock one handed. It’s even faster when I have it set to “Raise To Wake” but I opted to turn that off because I found this plenty fast enough.
OK here’s another quick vid I just made with the 7 and the X. Both with “Raise To Wake” enabled.
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There is a much easier way to do this. Settings-General-Accessibility-AssistiveTouch. Then Single Tap home. Double Tap Mute. Long Press Lock. etc.
They said it would learn, but it just learns to not recognise me. It gets worse over time and it doesn’t frigging work in landscape mode.... wtf? How did that slip by?
I don’t mind the feature, but please put a finger print sensor on the power button like Sony...
I don’t mind the feature, but please put a finger print sensor on the power button like Sony...
Won't happen. Making a Plea on a tech forum
Will not be a reality when Apple (And Tim Cook) said Face ID is their future.
I really wonder how it doesn’t work for some people and it works without fault for others.
Sure it doesn’t work in landscape, so what.
We keep seeing stories of siblings, or family members (or even strangers) unlocking the X, I'm not sure the facial recognition as it stands now, is as tight and secure as TouchID.
I haven't heard many confirmed reports, I've heard some but they don't seem to go any further. I'd argue that if that was common place it would be a much bigger story than the battery power management, I mean letting strangers in and use apple pay...
My point is not letting strangers with apple pay, but rather the fact we're seeing those reports in the first place. The idea of stating it would be a bigger news story and since its not, so its not really an issue is a mistaken logical leap.
I understand for the vast majority of iPhone X owners, the security of FaceID is sufficient, but that doesn't negate how I feel touchid is a more secure solution