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Other Would you rather have Touch ID under the screen or Face ID?
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Nope, You Tube doesn’t count, and you need to provide the proof as your the one making the claim.
One thing to consider, due to the glasses I frequently wear (prescription sunglasses), I had to switch off Require Face Attention. As a test, my roomie picked up my phone and held it near my face (I was simulating being asleep) and it unlocked allowing access.
Face ID needs some work. It has potential.
With Require Face Attention off it functioned as it should. It still required your face to unlock it.
Okaaayy...
It did.For our test, I laid like I was asleep. My roomie picked up my phone, held it in front of my "asleep" face and it unlocked.
Last year I decided against the X because Face ID was unproven. I’ve now seen enough to convince me that it’s a positive change and a system that’s very easy to live with.
If we are going off of reliability then Touch ID is currently superior. If Apple truly wants the most reliability then they would have both since both have physical limitations that the other fixes.
You’re comparing a second generation touch ID to a first generation face ID, those are two things that are not mutually exclusive. If Face ID was on a second generation, then you could make that comparison. We don’t know that we could call Touch ID ‘superior’ over Face ID. You could make that assumption when Face ID is on its second Gen improvement’s.
I would say that the second gen TouchID is superior and much more reliable then the first gen FaceID. And we can make this comparison because its all we have to work with. In my opinion it would have been nice to have both bio-metrics available until FaceID could catch up to TouchID. My opinion is based upon my real world use of both FaceID and TouchID. Others seem to have zero failures with FaceID, and it works at all times.
Hopefully.
We will find out when the next round of iPhones and Face ID roll out this fall.
At this point in time, even if it proven vs. new, Touch ID is the more robust solution IMO.
You mean this hack, the one where the person with the finger print that unlocks the phone had to repeatedly press said finger onto some play doh, yeah last time I checked most iPhone owners don’t go sticking their fingers repeatedly onto play doh..
http://uk.businessinsider.com/hack-iphone-touch-id-with-play-doh-2016-2?r=US&IR=T
So with FaceID your twin could only have to look at your phone to unlock it, it’s Touch ID they would have to stick your finger into play doh several times then try and unlock the iPhone. I know which one seems more secure to me.
Haha you make a rather big claim for your argument, and when pushed to prove it you act all defensive, don’t make claims your not prepared to back up with facts. It’s a waste of everyone’s time. It’s also against forum rules to tell someone to go and search for it, if you didn’t know. If you are the one making the claim, you provide the facts to back it up.
Did you read both my links? One is Play Do, one is Latex. There are other "solutions" out there. I just grabbed two of the first in my quicky search.
I will say that Face ID was easier to spoof from home than the Touch ID ones.
The Latex link didn’t really work, yet looking more into that you need to go all James Bond and lift someone’s fingerprint from something suitable to apparently use. Still a hell of a lot more effort then looking at a phone.
And neither of these methods claim they work on Touch ID 2.
I will never buy another phone or similar device that doesn't have Face-ID. I have a iPhone X with face and a new iPad which only has touch id. Face-id works 99.99% of the time and touch-id with first press maybe 10% and I know it will get worse come winter. Face-id work at angle - different light, with sunglasses on,etc. In cold weather with touch-id I will have to takes gloves off, and probably redo touch several times to get it to work at all.
A solution to what? Touch ID is still very much relevant, but the fact of the matter is, it won’t be in the future. And face ID will be with 3-D facial mapping. That’s really all that matters. But the argument goes both ways of which is more effective in situations where touch ID failed or Face ID struggles, it’s really user based based on what the user _prefers_. To me, Face ID is a game changer and will be spread throughout Apples product line up in the future.
The people in the world most likely to fool your FaceID: your closest family members
The people in the world most likely to fool your TouchID: completely random people.
It isn't that FaceID isn't as secure as Apple claims. It's that it's considerably easier to find someone to fool FaceID than it is to find someone who can fool TouchID.
Unless you have serious concerns about your family, I'd rather have the one that is more secure everywhere in the world, with the possible exception of my home (if I'm one of those rare enough for a sibling to even fool it in the first place).
I haven’t gone defensive I just expected the childish response - like the one above.
I don’t need to prove what has already been proven, just because I haven’t proven it first hand doesn’t make it not true. You’re just being obstinate.