My wife & I will get new iPhones when Apple again offers Touch ID. I am also fine if Face ID remains as an option including for 2 factor authentication. The notch does not bother me. It has a purpose. Even if the notch sensors aren’t used for unlocking they have uses with augmented reality.
My wife & I will get new iPhones when Apple again offers Touch ID. I am also fine if Face ID remains as an option including for 2 factor authentication. The notch does not bother me. It has a purpose. Even if the notch sensors aren’t used for unlocking they have uses with augmented reality.
Feel the same way. Last good iPhone was the 7plus. QualComm modems and TouchID. Hoping both return to iPhone and then I'll be upgrading. My iPhone 8+ is so aggravating because it doesn't load the navy hurricane website.
I would be disappointed if Apple took this direction. In my experience, having used a few Touch ID iPhones (and still using a Touch ID iPad) the Face ID on my XR is the much better system. It’s especially time saving and convenient in in-app authentication, which is becoming a lot more common - logging into banking apps, secure email, accessing the keychain for website passwords, all completely effortless with Face ID when the phone just reads your face as you use it, rather than making you stop everything and offer up a thumb. The talk in this thread of “false positives” and twins etc is largely fud, the evidence is that Face ID is significantly more secure and harder to trick than Touch ID, and it’s also much more reliable since it’s not affected by all the usual finger tip contaminants like water and dust etc.
To end up with some hybrid dual system with both methods on offer would be inelegant and wasteful - ultimately we’d all be paying for two sets of components to do a job that Face ID is perfectly capable of doing alone. Meanwhile ditching Face ID would leave us with a statistically less secure system and no support for the augmented front camera features we currently have.
Face ID can get faster and is getting faster in the next phones, with improvements both in iOS 13 (for all of us) and reportedly in the Face ID hardware of the 11 series iPhones, promising wider angles etc. There’s further to go with the technology, so reversing and doubling up with an older design makes little sense.
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I am also fine if Face ID remains as an option including for 2 factor authentication.
The notch does not bother me. It has a purpose. Even if the notch sensors aren’t used for unlocking they have uses with augmented reality.
To end up with some hybrid dual system with both methods on offer would be inelegant and wasteful - ultimately we’d all be paying for two sets of components to do a job that Face ID is perfectly capable of doing alone. Meanwhile ditching Face ID would leave us with a statistically less secure system and no support for the augmented front camera features we currently have.
Face ID can get faster and is getting faster in the next phones, with improvements both in iOS 13 (for all of us) and reportedly in the Face ID hardware of the 11 series iPhones, promising wider angles etc. There’s further to go with the technology, so reversing and doubling up with an older design makes little sense.