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FaceID works a lot better with gloves on than TouchID did.
by wlesieutre 7y ago
FaceID works a lot better with gloves on than TouchID did.
- draw_down 7y agoYeah, and touch ID works better in basically every other circumstance.
- shantly 7y agoMy TouchID drops to like a 10% success rate if the humidity's much different from it was on whatever day I set it up. Or if I've done any work with my hands in the last week or so and roughed my fingers up a bit. Or if I've looked at water in the last hour. I've configured it several times and it never gets much better. I end up using the code most of the time. Probably need to just disable it, it fails so consistently that it'd be faster just to use the code every time. That's on a 7+, though, and Macbook fingerprint sensors seem a little better (more like 50% success rate) so maybe it's just because it's an early version of the hardware.
- wlesieutre 7y agoI don’t have humidity problems but it’s a nuisance in the kitchen if I have a recipe up on the iPad. Whatever’s on my hands I have to wash off and then thoroughly dry. Depending on how messy my hands are, sometimes I’ll swipe sideways and type in the passcode with a clean knuckle. If I didn’t need clean fingers to unlock TouchID to begin with, iPad OS’s new voice control accessibility feature would be great for in the kitchen. No need to touch the tablet at all any more.
- Marsymars 7y ago> Or if I've done any work with my hands in the last week or so and roughed my fingers up a bit. I register two fingers, one with "normal" hands, and one after a session of rock climbing.
- ken 7y agoTrue, but I don't see that as a real advantage. No matter how I unlock it, I need to take off my gloves to do anything with the phone, anyway.
- wlesieutre 7y agoThere are gloves with conductive fingertips that can interact with the touchscreen, but they won't help you with a fingerprint scanner