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I do miss the home button for authentication. FaceID requires "full attention", while TouchID works even while distracted, and (crucially) in landscape. But fo

I do miss the home button for authentication. FaceID requires "full attention", while TouchID works even while distracted, and (crucially) in landscape. But for multitasking, I really do prefer the swipe-up gesture. I don't find it painful at all, it feels very natural: touch from the bottom, slide up, and then horizontally to select what you want.

WildGreenLeave 6y ago
Oh don't get me started about how many times I have do a weird 90 degrees head turn to unlock my XS when it is in landscape mode. I don't get why it is so hard to compare a 90 degree rotated FaceID match. Everyone that owns a iPhone with FaceID knows the trouble, for everyone else it looks like I am trying to read something without turning my phone.
- ssully 6y ago
  I don't think you actually have to do that. At least with my iPad pro, when it is in landscape, I don't have to do anything different with my head. The only issue I have is if I am holding it in landscape with my hands I have to move my hand off of the camera so it can see me.
unethical_ban 6y ago
I have held out for a while upgrading my LG G7 on android due to one crucial feature for me: Notification LED for my personal phone. (PS: "NotifyBuddy" looks like something that could satisfy my minimum requirement on OLED screens) I like Apple for work, and I just ordered an SE 2020 on my upgrade plan, to replace my 8. Why? Other than liking a small phone for work, I do not want to lose fingerprint auth. FaceID means no masks, no landscape, trouble in darkness (I think), trouble in bed or with smooshed face, trouble when the phone is on a desk and I'm looking at it from an angle. With under-screen fingerprint readers being possible from Oneplus, it must be a matter of cost/Apple-ian adherence to moving on from a technology with purpose, even when you don't need to.

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I do miss the home button for authentication. FaceID requires "full attention", while TouchID works even while distracted, and (crucially) in landscape. But fo

by millstone 6y ago

WildGreenLeave 6y ago
Oh don't get me started about how many times I have do a weird 90 degrees head turn to unlock my XS when it is in landscape mode. I don't get why it is so hard to compare a 90 degree rotated FaceID match. Everyone that owns a iPhone with FaceID knows the trouble, for everyone else it looks like I am trying to read something without turning my phone.
- ssully 6y ago
  I don't think you actually have to do that. At least with my iPad pro, when it is in landscape, I don't have to do anything different with my head. The only issue I have is if I am holding it in landscape with my hands I have to move my hand off of the camera so it can see me.
unethical_ban 6y ago
I have held out for a while upgrading my LG G7 on android due to one crucial feature for me: Notification LED for my personal phone. (PS: "NotifyBuddy" looks like something that could satisfy my minimum requirement on OLED screens) I like Apple for work, and I just ordered an SE 2020 on my upgrade plan, to replace my 8. Why? Other than liking a small phone for work, I do not want to lose fingerprint auth. FaceID means no masks, no landscape, trouble in darkness (I think), trouble in bed or with smooshed face, trouble when the phone is on a desk and I'm looking at it from an angle. With under-screen fingerprint readers being possible from Oneplus, it must be a matter of cost/Apple-ian adherence to moving on from a technology with purpose, even when you don't need to.