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Sorry, it’s not. Face ID: Just pick up your phone and your phone automatically unlocks with your face. This experience is way superior than having to position y
by mirthflat83 5y ago
Sorry, it’s not. Face ID: Just pick up your phone and your phone automatically unlocks with your face. This experience is way superior than having to position your finger at a specific place every time you want to unlock it. Putting it on the back is even worse, you need to actually pick up your phone from the desk just to unlock it. I swear HN readers would create devices with the worst UX possible.
- katbyte 5y agothey both have their place, but with touchid my phone is often unlocked before i even look at it or without looking at it which is nice at times.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoIt's not "way superior" it's just different and slightly easier.
- microtherion 5y agoI like Face ID with phones. For iPad, getting the angle right for the face to be recognized seems trickier, so overall the Touch ID experience was superior.
- neilalexander 5y agoI've actually found the opposite to be true - my iPad Pro will Face ID happily in any orientation and quite far off centre, whereas my face has to be very much centred for my iPhone to do the same.
- cpuguy83 5y agoProbably you have the "requires attention" mode activated on your phone.
- neilalexander 5y agoI have "Require Attention" enabled on both devices.
- NoPicklez 5y agoI'd argue that when I used to pick my phone up, I'd place my thumb on the touch ID location as I was raising the phone to my face and it would unlock quicker than face ID. I don't have a problem with either options, but I do think touch ID was slightly faster.
- lwansbrough 5y agoIf you haven’t unlocked your phone by the time you’re looking at it you’re doing it slower than I am. Typically my phone is unlocked before I’ve even fully pulled it out of my pocket. The muscle memory for thumb (or finger placement if it’s on the back) is a pretty low barrier to usability, and can be learned quickly. Can you unlock your phone without moving it in front of your face? I can, if it’s sitting across my desk I can unlock it without picking it up or moving my head towards it. I do this regularly. Perhaps you’ve forgotten how many usability compromises you’ve made in using Face ID, but I guarantee it’s slower.
- culturestate 5y ago> Perhaps you’ve forgotten how many usability compromises you’ve made in using Face ID, but I guarantee it’s slower Counterpoint: with Face ID, if my phone is facing me I can interact with it just by looking in its direction. Got a message while I'm at my desk? I look at it, it unlocks and shows me the notification. Cooking and a timer goes off? I look at it, it lowers the volume of the alarm. Everything has trade-offs and different people use stuff in different ways, but I personally prefer Face ID to Touch ID.
- mackrevinack 5y agobut what do you if you don't want it to unlock? like if you were in work and someone send you a nsfw message that you don't want your coworkers to see, or maybe you are in a car with other people etc etc. ...there's no way to stop that right? at least with a fingerprint reader you can choose to glance at the lockscreen messages first before unlocking
- asutekku 5y agoJust looking at the screen does not unlock the device as you still need to swipe up to close the lockscreen. Before that, it does exactly as you describe, shows a glance on the lockscreen.
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