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tl;dr It just doesn't work all that well in many common situations. Glare from sun off sunglasses makes it fail. The phone needs to be pointed right at you, no
by blakesterz 9y ago
tl;dr It just doesn't work all that well in many common situations.
Glare from sun off sunglasses makes it fail.
The phone needs to be pointed right at you, no opening it just pushing the home button.
Can't be sitting flat on the desk.
There are many times when you don't want to pick it up and point it at your face.
Faceid makes you loses the tacticle feeling, no information feedback to you.
Unlocks too often, like you just want to see what time it is.
Pushing a button is an explicit action, you are telling it to unlock now.
If you have the phone in a car dashboard mount, it's tough to unlock, you need to move.
It needs to in general be pointed right at your face to work.
He's not sure if he'd buy another phone with faceid, though admits the next generation should be better. At the moment it has too many problems.
"Require Attention" solves some of these issues, but then that weakens the security.
He asks a question, is faceid for usability or security? Did Apple design it to make things more usable or more secure? Is it there because it's better, or just because they removed the home button?
- verelo 9y agoGreat questions! Previously I never had to use my passcode as much as i do now i have the x as i do now. It’s totally absurd and frustrating, finger print was for me a superior experience.
- pvinis 9y agoI have the exact opposite milage. I was typing my password a lot with touchID. Now I made my pass longer and I need to type it only like once every week.
- zimpenfish 9y ago> Can't be sitting flat on the desk. Just tested this and it works fine. I tap the screen, move my face vaguely into the camera's view, and it unlocks. > Unlocks too often, like you just want to see what time it is. If I tap the screen or "raise to wake", it unlocks, sure, but -nothing else happens-. I still have the time and notifications right there. You have to swipe up to get to the home screen. > It needs to in general be pointed right at your face to work. Not in my experience. It has to be able to see your face but that seems to be a pretty wide FOV. > Glare from sun off sunglasses makes it fail. Haven't experienced this but it's winter in the UK and I've only had sunglasses on a couple of times (although I'd argue that the low sun would make it more likely to create glare for the phone...) I'm not entirely sure this video is accurate.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoDoes a photo work?
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoits just weird all of this has solutions that were found a month ago! if you want your face id to unlock while sitting flat on a desk, then teach your device that angle of your face when you first set up face id! "I didn't google this at all so I'm going to masquerade this as canonical"