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Indeed especially when driving that millions of us shouldn't be doing but do anyway. Touch ID made it so easy to unlock ... can't imagine Face ID being a better
by paul7986 9y ago
Indeed especially when driving that millions of us shouldn't be doing but do anyway. Touch ID made it so easy to unlock ... can't imagine Face ID being a better in this scenario.
- usaphp 9y agoBut the reason you unlock it is to look at the information on your phone, so it's not like you are using touch id without looking at your phone after that, no?
- grego 9y agoI keep "loaning" my finger to family members all the time, when I'm driving, watching TV, and they want to borrow my phone. Not really sure Apple thought through this from every angle...
- MBCook 9y agoThey could just hold the phone up and you could look over for a fraction of a second. No different than if you were talking to them.
- cbhl 9y agoOh boy, that's going to be awful fun for parents. Let the kid play with a game; they call your name while pointing the forward camera at you and you've just Face ID'ed some in-app purchase.
- MBCook 9y agoThat's an interesting corner case. My phone has a setting that lets me turn off touch ID for App Store purchases (so I would have to use my passcode) so I guess you'd just have to use that if your kid kept tricking you and you couldn't stop them.
- adiabatty 9y agoThen you get the bill in the mail a couple days later and then ground your kid.
- gberger 9y agoIn the mail? :-)
- trurl 9y agoTouchID is great, but if I've been sweating or have some moisture on my hands for another reason (say I'm cooking and want to check the recipe) it fails horribly.
- chris_7 9y agoAt one point (iOS 10?) iOS's quickness in falling back to the passcode prompt regressed greatly. In the cooking use case you ought to be able to say "hey Siri, keep my phone unlocked", but she'd probably just search for that on Bing.
- adiabatty 9y agoI usually say "hey Siri, open auto-lock settings" as I take my iPad into the kitchen.
- rmrfrmrf 9y agoIt looks like they made a point in one of their promo ads that it also works at an angle and with weird lighting/obstructions (the video of the swimmer looking down at her phone that was flat against the edge of the pool).
- Shinchy 9y agoThis happens often to me when I used my phone as a sat nav, the phone was attached to the dash but would sometimes go to sleep if the battery went to 20%. I'd open it up again by just tapping the home.