Will you buy the upcoming iPad Pro with Face ID? Please specify why and what is your use case.

[MEJHarrison]

An iPad is large enough for both face and touch ids - so give owners the option.

If they follow the same pattern they followed with the phone and watch, we would expect to see reduced bezels. And with reduced bezels comes the removal of the button. If they included both, they wouldn't be able to offer larger screens in the same sized package. You'd need a bigger iPad to get a bigger screen.

So I don't agree that there's room for both and really hope Apple doesn't do such a thing. I want the bigger screen and don't mind FaceID. So I'm looking forward to a FaceID iPad with a larger screen in the same comfortable size I'm used to.

 

[TrickyTreeRed]

If they follow the same pattern they followed with the phone and watch, we would expect to see reduced bezels. And with reduced bezels comes the removal of the button. If they included both, they wouldn't be able to offer larger screens in the same sized package. You'd need a bigger iPad to get a bigger screen.

So I don't agree that there's room for both and really hope Apple doesn't do such a thing. I want the bigger screen and don't mind FaceID. So I'm looking forward to a FaceID iPad with a larger screen in the same comfortable size I'm used to.

Apple could easily relocate a fingerprint sensor to the back of the iPad or embed one into the screen like Vivo has done with their X20 UD.

Also, given the way most hold a tablet (unless it is resting on your lap or a table), there will need to be bezels on the next iPad. If the bezels are too small, one of your metacarpals or thumbs could accidentally exert enough pressure on the screen to interfere in whatever task you are doing.

 

[largefarrva]

The small bezels and holding issue is easy to fix. Case manufacturers just have to create cases that are extra wide all the way around the iPad to make it easier to hold.

Wouldn't it be ironic if this actually happened?

 

[TrickyTreeRed]

The small bezels and holding issue is easy to fix. Case manufacturers just have to create cases that are extra wide all the way around the iPad to make it easier to hold.

Wouldn't it be ironic if this actually happened?

Not everyone uses a case. Most people I know use one of those magnetic covers or leave their iPad al fresco.

 

[MEJHarrison]

Apple could easily relocate a fingerprint sensor to the back of the iPad or embed one into the screen like Vivo has done with their X20 UD.

Absolutely. They could totally do that. But will they? Sure doesn't feel very Apple like to me. Also, with Face ID, they can say there's a 1-in-1,000,000 chance in someone unlocking it. If they ad Touch ID as another option, they can only say 1-in-50,000 since it's the weaker of the two methods.

I don't work for Apple and have no idea what they'll actually do. But I would be surprised if they had both forms of authentication. Apple and Options are two words I rarely put together.

 

[muzzy996]

Absolutely. They could totally do that. But will they? Sure doesn't feel very Apple like to me. Also, with Face ID, they can say there's a 1-in-1,000,000 chance in someone unlocking it. If they ad Touch ID as another option, they can only say 1-in-50,000 since it's the weaker of the two methods.

I don't work for Apple and have no idea what they'll actually do. But I would be surprised if they had both forms of authentication. Apple and Options are two words I rarely put together.

Yeah if FaceID can't work in all rotations and have a wider field of view maybe they'll make up some BS about having the courage to remove the fingerprint sensor and force users to pick up their iPads every time they need to unlock it. With regards to the "most people hold their iPads" comment maybe I'm just not like most people but I use my Apple Pencil a lot and doing so is way more convenient on a table . . and when doing that it's not uncommon to be distracted or to pause for any number of reasons and have to unlock the device from a flat on table position.

I'm still hoping that the leaked CAD rendering showing what some are thinking is another connector immediately adjacent to the lightning port is actually a relocated fingerprint scanner on the back. At least that way I only have to lift my tablet slightly off of the table to unlock it in a meeting as opposed to a more disruptive procedure of trying to get FaceID to see me.

 

[Freakonomics101]

I'm still hoping that the leaked CAD rendering showing what some are thinking is another connector immediately adjacent to the lightning port is actually a relocated fingerprint scanner on the back. At least that way I only have to lift my tablet slightly off of the table to unlock it in a meeting as opposed to a more disruptive procedure of trying to get FaceID to see me.

Yeah but you still have to lift it. Even that wouldn’t work for a lot of people, myself included.

 

[muzzy996]

Yeah but you still have to lift it. Even that wouldn’t work for a lot of people, myself included.

Very true. I’m just recognizing that there’s a difference in effort and distraction of others between lifting one end of it up off the table to slip a finger under it to the sensor in the CAD rendering and fully lifting the tablet off of the table to orient a FaceID projector/sensor system towards my face to unlock.

 

[Kal-037]

So it didn’t take more than 5 seconds to see FaceID 1.5 is beyond fast and accurate on my iPhone Xs Max. After using it all day and testing it, I believe it is actually just as fast (most times it seems almost faster) than the Touch ID on my previously owned 10.5” iPad Pro.
I am not worried about a possible new iPad with Face ID, (landscape unlock or not.)

And even though the 12.9” is cumbersome and may be a little annoying to have to rotate it to portrait for FaceID (if that’s what Apple does)... it is truly such a tiny and insignificant thing (to me personally)... it’s not even close to being a deal-breaker.
*i really just hope we get an updated 12.9” all-screen IPad Pro, at all.. (and next month hopefully, not next year.) :/


Kallum.