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Why not have both? This whole topic would be a non-issue if we still had Touch ID as an option.
by ASalazarMX 6y ago
Why not have both? This whole topic would be a non-issue if we still had Touch ID as an option.
- jen20 6y agoHow about anywhere cold enough to require gloves, and reasonable enough to require face masks?
- fomine3 6y agoIris auth on Galaxy S8/S9 was great but it's gone.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoIn those dire situations I would opt for passcode unlocking with smartphone gloves. Face ID, Touch ID and passcode, only the most extreme scenarios would need more.
- jen20 6y agoThat’s great. I’d prefer to use watch unlocking. Also, these are not “extreme” or “dire” or even uncommon conditions - most of Northern Europe, Canada, and the north-eastern USA experience several months of such conditions every year.
- ghaff 6y agoNow you're taking up a fair bit of front of the phone real estate (and adding some cost) for a feature that I'm guessing most people don't care about. [ADDED: As others note there are potentially other options though that don't involve putting the home button back.]
- koyote 6y agoFingerprint readers have been living under the screen in other phones for several years now.
- mjcohen 6y agoMy Samsung S10e has the fingerprint reader on the power button. I have it set to recognize my left index finger and right thumb. Works great. The touchID on my new MacBook Pro is extremely useful. Trained on right index finger.
- dwaite 6y agoIf a device supported and was provisioned with both, and unlocked with either, you would have double the potential for biometric attacks/vulnerabilities (remember that FaceID is an order of magnitude stronger biometric). If you support just one with the other disabled, it is wasted hardware/space in a device with extremely limited size/cost budget. If you require both, you haven't fixed the usability issues.