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iPhone X Face ID is Preventing Me From Buying an iPhone X - Anyone Else?
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I bought the 8 to see how the face ID fares. Don't care to have the latest and greatest, just a phone that works. Only upgraded for the quick charge and wireless charging.
I can't see Face ID working in that scenario. This feature is setting up to be very problematic in many realworld use cases.
Facegate is surely going to make December very entertaining.
I would actually like you to be the first guinea pigs with this new FaceID. I’ll wait until next year to be on the safer side I hope
Legit concern for me too for similar reasons.
Sorry, but you do not understand how things work in these settings.
Should he be wearing gloves to use his phone?
I am confused OP. Don’t like a feature, than don’t use it/ turn it off. You don’t have to use Touch ID or Face ID just because it’s there. you can use the regular 4/6 digit or an alphanumeric passcode sure it’s slower but still works for locking the device, Apple Pay etc.
he's complaining that he can't use FaceID while wearing a surgical mask.
and in my mind he'll most likely be wearing gloves in these situations too, which would make it impossible to use touchID.
lol I don’t see how not getting a new phone this year to just get it this year is different. It’s same technology. Maybe faster but oh well
Hate to burst your bubble, but FaceId has replaced TouchID. Do you actually believe Apple is on,y doing it for 1 year.
Nobody has been able to get any type of TouchID Working underneath a glass display and Apple chose not to put an ugly eye sore on the back where it can be accidentally accessed by the simple process of holding the phone.
They still can do it using the front facing camera anyway. They can do this this using the iPhone 8 just as easily as the X.
Oh, okay.
So today, right now, disable Touch ID on your phone and use a PIN for the week, let me know how you like it.
You aren't bursting my bubble. And of course, Apple will do what they want to do.
But I value TouchID. That's not to say FaceID is a success or a failure...too early to say.
But if FaceId doesn't pass muster, I will buy a phone that still has TouchID. Even if FaceID is the future, TouchID models abound.
My options are open...
I do it all the time, I have been disabled touchID to unlock my phone over a month ago. Hasn’t slowed me down one bit
If you think placing your finger on your TouchID and then looking at your phone is not noticed by your colleagues then you're probably mistaken. You're making a bigger deal about it than it is. Checking important notifications for a second during a meeting is just part of modern life.
I'm with you on this, though for me it's pushing through the train / tube queues in rush hour at London. If anyone knows Brixton station in the morning, you have 10+ faces looking over your shoulder to get to the payment terminal. It's got to be pretty sharp to pick you out of that quick enough to hit apple pay. If it can deal with that I'm sold
I get caught behind people all the time trying to activate their phone when TouchID doesn't work properly. It's a pain in the proverbial. If FaceID is more reliable then 'hooray!'
[doublepost=1506806088][/doublepost]The same threads (probably by the same people) were floated when TouchID was introduced. 'The sky is falling' etc. In the end that turned out pretty well so a wise person would wait until FaceID was released in the wild before making doomsday predictions.
This is my question, it is a locking mechanism that even with typing in the long passcode is maybe 2 seconds.
Would you buy a different house if the lock on the door changed?
Good analogy or not. Unlocking the phone, even prior to TouchID being implemented, 100 times over the course of a day is 3-4 minutes of interaction.
Personally I am hoping everyone is concerned with FaceID and do not order one, higher chance for me to get mine on day 1. Now I wonder why am I making any kind of case for it.
Yeah FaceID is going to be terrible, just terrible. Get a 7s.
I would think that background faces would be a pretty obvious scenario that Apple would account for. I would think that as long as the other faces aren’t closer to the scanner than yours is, it will probably work.
Qualcomm got it working. But it seems to be rather slow at the moment and is not yet ready for high volume production.
Also no information on accuracy at the moment. (that i know of)
But i suspect it won't get a long lifetime. Something that only serves one purpose is just not very practical in a device with limited space.
My question is how do you discreetly unlock the phone?
I guess it will stop people using their phones while driving in Ontario!
I guess it will stop people using their phones while driving in Ontario!
Face ID may be the future but right now we don't know how accurately unlocks or how easy it works with out hold to face.
Can't really stoutly defend when haven't even hit the streets.