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If 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 pull

If 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 6y 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 6y ago
  but 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 6y ago
    Just 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.
    - culturestate 5y ago
      To clarify, it does unlock the phone - i.e. you are authenticated as you after you look at it - but you're right that it doesn't open the full message unless you tap on the notification.
  - culturestate 5y ago
    You can disable the attention-aware features if you want to, even independent of Face ID itself, and it obviously respects DND settings. I keep notification contents hidden while the phone is locked anyway, so I'd need to authenticate before it shows me the message in either case.

culturestate 6y 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 6y ago
but 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 6y ago
  Just 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.
  - culturestate 5y ago
    To clarify, it does unlock the phone - i.e. you are authenticated as you after you look at it - but you're right that it doesn't open the full message unless you tap on the notification.
- culturestate 5y ago
  You can disable the attention-aware features if you want to, even independent of Face ID itself, and it obviously respects DND settings. I keep notification contents hidden while the phone is locked anyway, so I'd need to authenticate before it shows me the message in either case.