iPhone X Wait, so to unlock w/ Face ID, you need to look at it AND swipe up?

[KGB7]

Even with Touch ID there are two steps...placing your finger and having to press the home button. Touch ID

They showed in the demonstration how it learns your face even if you wear glasses or change hair. Makeup will, therefore, not interfere.

Guess we will find out on Halloween...lol

 

[iBug2]

Goodbye to unlocking the phone in your pocket as well.

 

[KGB7]

You press and unlock at the same time in one motion.

That's what I love about it. No swiping screen like Android.

 

[Complex757]

Even with Touch ID there are two steps...placing your finger and having to press the home button. Touch ID

You don't have to press the home button

 

[TheIgster]

That's what I love about it. No swiping screen like Android.

I don't touch the screen on my S7 Edge. Simply click the home button and it reads my fingerprint and unlocks. I don't swipe anything. Not all Android devices work the same you know.

 

[h9826790]

You don't have to press the home button

Only if wake on raise is enabled, but not available on my 6+

 

[serialiphoneuser]

SORE THUMBgate
From frequent unlocking and swiping up / home button use / unlocking.

 

[geoffm33]

You don't have to press the home button

And even if you do have to press it, it's still one step.

1) Press home button with a touchID registered finger

 

[andyp350]

I imagine this is just like with TouchID now where you touch it to unlock, press the button to go to home. If it automatically brought you to the home screen with FaceID you wouldn't be able to look at the notifications on your lock screen.

This! How would you ever be able to check your lock screen if you were taken straight to the homescreen whenever you looked at the phone.

 

[KGB7]

I don't touch the screen on my S7 Edge. Simply click the home button and it reads my fingerprint and unlocks. I don't swipe anything. Not all Android devices work the same you know.

The touchID on my s5 and s7 Active, weren't accurate half the time and required 2nd time finger swipe. Very annoying.

 

[TheIgster]

The touchID on my s5 and s7 Active, weren't accurate half the time and required 2nd time finger swipe. Very annoying.

Fingerprint scanning on the S7 as well as the S8 is accurate and super fast.

 

[h9826790]

So now, when I sleep, my wife take my phone, point it to me, the phone will unlock? Sounds even more unsecure than Touch ID. At least, if she grab my hand to unlock the phone, I may feel it.

In the demo, it seems you have to intentionally turn your face away from the screen to avoid it unlock. If purely close the eyes, I doubt the phone will smart enough to stay locked. If the eyes are so important, then wearing glasses (especially sun glasses) will be a big big trouble. But clearly it is designed to handle the glasses.

 

[noobinator]

So now, when I sleep, my wife take my phone, point it to me, the phone will unlock? Sounds even more unsecure than Touch ID. At least, if she grab my hand to unlock the phone, I may feel it.

In the demo, it seems you have to intentionally turn your face away from the screen to avoid it unlock. If purely close the eyes, I doubt the phone will smart enough to stay locked. If the eyes are so important, then wearing glasses (especially sun glasses) will be a big big trouble. But clearly it is designed to handle the glasses.

You need to upgrade your wife is she is spying on you.

 

[mrskullfreak]

Am definitely rethinking the x touch the screen and look and swipe up I don't know if I will like that.
It's not easier then home button.
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Face ID unlock require at least one extra process.

For Touch ID, it can be press Home button + place finger on the button (effectively one single action)

Or

place the finger on the Touch ID and raise the phone (OK, we count it 2 steps)

For Face ID, you have to wake up the screen first + face ID unlock + swipe. Always 3 steps.

Ya that's a pain in the butt imo.
But the phone itself is amazing looking.
Am mixed on it now to say the least.

 

[itsmilo]

Only if wake on raise is enabled, but not available on my 6+

Nope you „wake“ it by pressing the home button and if you keep your finger on the touchid it just unlocks, no need to press again. Source: my old iPhone 6

(You may have to enable it in the home button settings)

 

[h9826790]

Nope you „wake“ it by pressing the home button and if you keep your finger on the touchid it just unlocks, no need to press again. Source: my old iPhone 6

(You may have to enable it in the home button settings)

That's exactly what I said, I have to press the button at least once.

 

[itsmilo]

That's exactly what I said, I have to press the button at least once.

And on the X you have to swipe up instead, not much of a difference

 

[BoxerGT2.5]

Not entirely sure that looking at an iPhone and swiping up is better than the fraction of a second my iPhone 6S takes to unlock with my finger? This is the headphone jack all over again for me, removing for the sake of it and making tasks more awkward.

Well they've been looking at the displays Samsung has been putting in their phones and they know damn well Samsung has outdone them the past couple of years. I don't see why apple couldn't make the phone 2mm thicker and put touch ID on the back under the apple logo. To give people the option to use Face ID or Touch ID.

 

[joeblow7777]

Was I the only one under the impression that FaceID would just mean, you pick up your phone, look at it, and it unlocks automatically to the home screen???

That's not how it works? Why do we also have to swipe up?

Why are people surprised? This has already been anticipated and discussed extensively. How would you ever just stay on your lock screen (ie. to see notifications or just check the time) if it went straight to the home screen any time you look at it?

 

[penajmz]

So now, when I sleep, my wife take my phone, point it to me, the phone will unlock? Sounds even more unsecure than Touch ID. At least, if she grab my hand to unlock the phone, I may feel it.

In the demo, it seems you have to intentionally turn your face away from the screen to avoid it unlock. If purely close the eyes, I doubt the phone will smart enough to stay locked. If the eyes are so important, then wearing glasses (especially sun glasses) will be a big big trouble. But clearly it is designed to handle the glasses.

It requires for you to look at it, doesn't work with closed eyes.

 

[adrianlondon]

Was I the only one under the impression that FaceID would just mean, you pick up your phone, look at it, and it unlocks automatically to the home screen???

That's not how it works? Why do we also have to swipe up?

Agreed. I have a 6S with raise-to-wake, so all I have to do is pick up the phone and touch the home button.

However, if they did something similar with face-id then as soon as you looked at it to see the notifications, it'd unlock and go to the home screen. Not useful. But instead of swiping up they could just keep reading the face and work off a gesture.

I reckon a wink would work. So, look at phone to see notifications and wink to go to the home screen. This could be expanded to all sorts of things with customisation. A wriggle of the nose to open calendar. Stick your tongue out to call up Siri etc.

 

[yegon]

You don’t have to press the button when “Rest finger to open” is enabled.

My issue with Face ID is definitely the swipe. Currently, raise to wake and rest finger (which feels completely natural) means I’m on the home screen by the time my eyes are looking at the screen.

I’ve always found the Notification screen pretty much useless, I’d happily enable an option to skip it if available, which my current system largely does.

 

[dojoman]

I can unlock my iphone to home screen automatically after Touch ID scan no need to press home button. It's accessibility option under home button, I'm sure iPhone X has the same option.

 

[h9826790]

It requires for you to look at it, doesn't work with closed eyes.

Are you 100% sure? Blind people cannot use Face ID? How about I wear sun glasses? "Facing it" and "look at" it can be quite different.
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And on the X you have to swipe up instead, not much of a difference

I just explained it why it's so different.

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ook-at-it-and-swipe-up.2066199/#post-25000158

 

[Damstr]

I don't see why you would want it to do that. Looking at your iPhone is something you are going to do anyway and swiping up is basically the same amount of work as pressing TouchID...