With Touch ID on my 10.5" iPad Pro and Face ID on my iPhone XS, both in use many times a day, I've found Face ID to be quicker and more reliable. I wouldn't want to go back.
I have not tried this yet, but you can set up a secondary Face ID profile. Wonder if it would work for a mask?
Not going back but having both. Face ID for Apple Pay sucks when the POS is far away. I wish I had both for the cafe at work.
Not true. You can unlock the phone with your face and then move the phone near the POS. You have plenty of time to complete the transaction
Yup. People complaining about FaceID and POS terminals likely don't know how FaceID works. You can double-click the side button while removing the phone from pocket, raise it enough to casually look at it while lifting it toward the POS, get authenticated mid-air, and then wave it near the POS terminal. It's effortless and can be done in the briefest of moments, at the drive-thru, wherever.
If they don't understand how FaceID works and thus find it failing then it's not as good as it should be. Like Touch ID it should be seamless and require no thought, yet it does. That by itself becomes an argument for bringing back a fingerprint sensor.
IMO it was a revealing exercise that in practice didn't solve anything but allow Apple to make the screen bigger without sorting to the Android-type rear or side fingerprint sensor or reducing the size of the top bezel and keeping the bottom one for the "Home button". Esthetics.
If you took a poll I suspect the vote would be overwhelmingly "Bring back TouchID". If they could both be incorporated then fine, all the better, but if it's going to be only one or the other I'd vote for a fingerprint sensor. Works in the dark, laying flat on a table, in a coat pocket, looking at it, not looking at it, with a mask or without....
gatorguy said: If they don't understand how FaceID works and thus find it failing then it's not as good as it should be. Like Touch ID it should be seamless and require no thought, yet it does. That by itself becomes an argument for bringing back a fingerprint sensor.
Exactly, and I find mobile especially difficult in this regard. I know the UIs need to be more limited in space and such, but there is way too much guessing and confusion in the process of using modern mobile OSs. It is kind of like if you had to use the keyboard shortcuts in MacOS to make the machine do what you wanted, but you just had to do your own research to figure out what those commands are and how they work.
Again, I'm not saying this is easy, but the industry partly did it to itself when it went 'flat' dumping skeuomorphism. The latter was useful in relating the real world into the digital, even if it got far too cheesy at times. And, then they went as simplistic as possible, too... with some semi-nondescript icon (even to the extent of color being removed), where you just have to know what it does (somehow), or risk trying it.
gatorguy said: If you took a poll I suspect the vote would be overwhelmingly "Bring back TouchID". If they could both be incorporated then fine, all the better, but if it's going to be only one or the other I'd vote for a fingerprint sensor. Works in the dark, laying flat on a table, in a coat pocket, looking at it, not looking at it, with a mask or without....
Yeah, I don't know, but I suspect you're right. FaceID is more 'flashy' so some might want it so they can fulfill their 'futurist' fantasies. There are certainly some valid use-cases where it is better. But, if 'there can be only one' I'll certainly pick TouchID in a heartbeat. And, while I realize (and hope it's true) that Apple's implementation respect privacy, there is something that is just gut-creepy about FaceID.
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IMO it was a revealing exercise that in practice didn't solve anything but allow Apple to make the screen bigger without sorting to the Android-type rear or side fingerprint sensor or reducing the size of the top bezel and keeping the bottom one for the "Home button". Esthetics.
If you took a poll I suspect the vote would be overwhelmingly "Bring back TouchID". If they could both be incorporated then fine, all the better, but if it's going to be only one or the other I'd vote for a fingerprint sensor. Works in the dark, laying flat on a table, in a coat pocket, looking at it, not looking at it, with a mask or without....
Again, I'm not saying this is easy, but the industry partly did it to itself when it went 'flat' dumping skeuomorphism. The latter was useful in relating the real world into the digital, even if it got far too cheesy at times. And, then they went as simplistic as possible, too... with some semi-nondescript icon (even to the extent of color being removed), where you just have to know what it does (somehow), or risk trying it.
Yeah, I don't know, but I suspect you're right. FaceID is more 'flashy' so some might want it so they can fulfill their 'futurist' fantasies. There are certainly some valid use-cases where it is better. But, if 'there can be only one' I'll certainly pick TouchID in a heartbeat. And, while I realize (and hope it's true) that Apple's implementation respect privacy, there is something that is just gut-creepy about FaceID.
https://www.gizchina.com/2020/05/05/huami-n95-mask-that-allows-face-unlock-in-the-works/