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no way to make Face ID open phone to home screen?

Not sure why people are finding this request strange. It costs apple very little to integrate a settings toggle that lets you bypass the lock screen Notification Center without needing to swipe up. I get the appeal honestly. A lot of the time when I'm using my phone I lock it for a few minutes while I'm talking to someone or occupied with something. When I take my phone back out of my pocket, I want to immediately get back to whatever I was doing prior to putting the phone in my pocket.

For me it's about having a seamless (yet secure) experience when it comes to switching context. Jumping in and out of whatever you're doing on your phone could be as simple as taking the phone in and out of your pocket or by raising the phone to your face. I know swiping up is such a small, cheap action on the part of the user but sometimes eliminating a small action can make a WORLD of a difference UX wise.

Take Touch ID vs Face ID auth in banking apps as an example, one is a seamless experience (Face ID: open the app like you would any other non-auth app and BOOM, you're in) vs. an experience that requires user action (Touch ID: open the app, place your finger on the home button, and now you're in). In reality the time saved between the two actions is minuscule but one is a much more seamless experience than the other.

I get all my important notifications on my Apple Watch so I don't always need to look at the Notification Center (it's only a swipe down away). Perhaps a timeout setting that bypasses the lock screen if the last time you unlocked the device was within a certain timeout. MacOS can already do this, you can 'lock' the computer if the screensaver has been on for 10 minutes or longer, etc.
 
The root of the problem is that you are looking at it the wrong way (no pun intended). Face ID is a passive biometric security. It’s not 100% yet as your face can get off angle.

But consider this. All you are doing is swiping up to go to homescreen. During that swipe, Face ID has recognized you and lets you in.

The end game is that when using your phone it’s never “locked” for you. For you, you are seeing a big clock and your notifications on first glance. For everyone else there’s a “lock screen”.

I believe this is Apples goal with Face ID and giving those options breaks that future vision. And it’s not user friendly if you just just want to look at the time and it jumps to the homescreen whereas you later have to manually lock it.
 
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itsmilo said:
A toggle „straight to home screen“ would help. CHOICES people. I also hate it in the winter when I am wearing gloves
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So you want to be able to pick up your phone, look at it and it unlocks and takes you straight to the home screen. Now what? You can't do anything with your gloves on anyway. Why does it matter if you have to take your glove off to get to the home screen, or to do anything once you're there?
 
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And if automatically unlocked you could just be picking up the phone - it unlocks and your fingers on the phone accidentally launch something or select something on a screen. Then there would be threads about how could Apple let this happen and 500 lawyers would start suits about it.

In either case you have to do something with your fingers - I don't notice the swipe up anymore and Face-is is so much more reliable
 
Many of you are debating for the sake of debating. If you look at it Apple took away functionality.

  • With TouchID there was a setting "rest finger to open" which would take you the home screen immediately after TouchID authenticated you if you just left your finger on the touchID sensor. ( I used this ALL the time)
  • You can view your notifications by swiping down from the top left corner of the home screen so saying "so you can view your notifications" is a weak argument.
  • In my opinion Apple meant to do "more" with the lock screen but didn't quite get around to it. If I remember correctly there were many rumors about a revamped lock screen before the iOS 12 beta began.

Apple needs to add a setting like "Face ID takes you to home screen" for those of us (including me) who do not care to stare at the lock screen and would rather go directly to the home screen like before with TouchID.
 
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Armen said:
Many of you are debating for the sake of debating. If you look at it Apple took away functionality.

  • With TouchID there was a setting "rest finger to open" which would take you the home screen immediately after TouchID authenticated you if you just left your finger on the touchID sensor. ( I used this ALL the time)
  • You can view your notifications by swiping down from the top left corner of the home screen so saying "so you can view your notifications" is a weak argument.
  • In my opinion Apple meant to do "more" with the lock screen but didn't quite get around to it. If I remember correctly there were many rumors about a revamped lock screen before the iOS 12 beta began.

Apple needs to add a setting like "Face ID takes you to home screen" for those of us (including me) who do not care to stare at the lock screen and would rather go directly to the home screen like before with TouchID.
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Exactly. I go back and forth between my 8+ and XR and while I find Face ID much more accurate than I ever expected the swipe up is annoying when I have no notifications. And even if I did give me that option you mentioned at the end to just go straight to the home screen.

At this point the swipe up is an extra step in the workflow when you have the “rest finger on home button” option turned on. You can’t call it equal to the swipe up gesture as some others did in past posts. In this case Touch ID is faster with no swipe gesture needed. That much faster? No. Less annoying as the swipe up? Yes. Workflows should be simplified And straightforward. This isn’t. But I will give props to Face ID recognition. It just needs more options like you said.
 
It doesn't really bother me since it has the 2 options I would want to use immediately right on the lock screen (flashlight and camera). It really should be an option though.
 
madeirabhoy said:
when your phone is sitting on the table it daftly means that Face ID is actually more hassle than with an old phone and your thumb. as you have to pick up the phone and turn it to your face and then with your other hand swipe up. whereas if you could just lift it to your face and see your home screen or last opened app, it'd be quicker.
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Oh the HORROR.
 
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Would be nice as an option that you can turn on or off.
 
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madeirabhoy said:
when your phone is sitting on the table it daftly means that Face ID is actually more hassle than with an old phone and your thumb. as you have to pick up the phone and turn it to your face and then with your other hand swipe up. whereas if you could just lift it to your face and see your home screen or last opened app, it'd be quicker.
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my aren't you utterly lazy. i mean how hard is it to swipe your wittle finger barely up to open the phone.

as for picking it up, do you enjoy reading things at an angle. probably not so you likely picked it up for that anyway. and it's very easy to do that swipe with the thumb of the hand holding it.

as for the whole gloves argument. you can't use the phone with gloves on unless you get those special ones with the touch tips which means you can still swipe
 
Didn't notice this was a thread resurrection at first.

I've perfected picking up the phone and swiping my thumb up with the same hand - don't need two hands.

It is strange that I can pick up my phone and ask Siri to open an app like Camera or Contacts without touching the screen, but when I ask Siri to open the home screen she tells me to swipe up on the screen.

Also, not many people seem to know this, but you can swipe up on the screen before you even finish bringing it up to you face, and once FaceID sees your face then it opens to the home screen, even if it's a few seconds later.
 
First world problems... Not wanting to move your thumb to unlock a phone

But seriously it seems many of the complaints about Apple are related to security features. I wouldn't expect Apple to compromise security for convenience.
 
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russell_314 said:
First world problems... Not wanting to move your thumb to unlock a phone

But seriously it seems many of the complaints about Apple are related to security features. I wouldn't expect Apple to compromise security for convenience.
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They've been offering something like that for Touch ID for some time now.
 
ZEEN0j said:
The root of the problem is that you are looking at it the wrong way (no pun intended). Face ID is a passive biometric security. It’s not 100% yet as your face can get off angle.

But consider this. All you are doing is swiping up to go to homescreen. During that swipe, Face ID has recognized you and lets you in.

The end game is that when using your phone it’s never “locked” for you. For you, you are seeing a big clock and your notifications on first glance. For everyone else there’s a “lock screen”.

I believe this is Apples goal with Face ID and giving those options breaks that future vision. And it’s not user friendly if you just just want to look at the time and it jumps to the homescreen whereas you later have to manually lock it.
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I had an iPhone X last year from Thanksgiving until early January and came to really hate how the X worked with FaceID - one of my complaints was the OP's beef. My iPhone 7 actually stopped receiving LTE signals late last year, out of warranty, so I had to replace it. I bought an iPhone Xs. Surprise for me - a year later, I find FaceID works great. The difference for me was turning on Rise to Wake, which I had turned of last year with the X. With RtW turned on, everything you say works just fine. So at least in my case it wasn't that I was looking at it the wrong way, I was picking it up the wrong way (or at least had settings configured so that I couldn't pick it up the "right" way).
 
madeirabhoy said:
when your phone is sitting on the table it daftly means that Face ID is actually more hassle than with an old phone and your thumb. as you have to pick up the phone and turn it to your face and then with your other hand swipe up. whereas if you could just lift it to your face and see your home screen or last opened app, it'd be quicker.
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It has been easy to tolerate this on the iPhone X but would be a giant PITA if I decided to upgrade my cellular 10.5 to the 11.
 
I think Apple doesn’t allow this with Face ID vs Touch ID because at least with Touch ID, you actively have to place your finger on the sensor. Face ID doesn’t require any active gesture besides eye contact with phone. As an engineering graduate, it’s better to not assume what a user wants to do after any given action, so waiting for input is the safe option.

They could just add auto transition to the X series, but not a priority
 
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Touch ID still requires you to move your finger. Your phone won't unlock by itself sitting on the table.
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Simply placing your finger on Touch ID sensor is equivalent to looking at Face ID.
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AmazingTechGeek said:
I think Apple doesn’t allow this with Face ID vs Touch ID because at least with Touch ID, you actively have to place your finger on the sensor. Face ID doesn’t require any active gesture besides eye contact with phone. As an engineering graduate, it’s better to not assume what a user wants to do after any given action, so waiting for input is the safe option.

They could just add auto transition to the X series, but not a priority
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That fairly rational reasoning for it. It doesn't prevent them from adding something like that as an option, but, yes, it's certainly not something that would be of priority to them.
 
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Simply placing your finger on Touch ID sensor is equivalent to looking at Face ID.
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That fairly rational reasoning for it. It doesn't prevent them from adding something like that as an option, but, yes, it's certainly not something that would be of priority to them.
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Yes and no. One requires me to physically touch the phone while the other requires me to look in that direction. I wouldn't consider looking at the cat on my desk the same as touching my phone. Granted this might seem like a minor security risk but Apple isn't likely to compromise security for convenience. I'm not saying it won't happen but I just don't see Apple doing it.
 
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For all you lazy people that don’t like FaceID because you have to *GASP* pick up the phone, just get an upright wireless charger. smh
 
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TheLocNar said:
For all you lazy people that don’t like FaceID because you have to *GASP* pick up the phone, just get an upright wireless charger. smh
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Yup, people should change how they do things to satisfy the technology that is supposed to improve things for them, makes good sense.
 
I, for one, do not want to only look at my phone and have it go to the home screen without performing some other action.

But I would like to pick up my phone, look at it, and say "Hey Siri, go to home screen", just like I can with asking Siri to open the Camera or some other app.
 
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