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> 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
by 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.
- culturestate 5y agoTo 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 agoYou 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.