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It’s interesting the preferences people have. My work phone has Touch ID and I’ve grown so accustomed to Face ID that Touch ID feels annoying. I also remember
by spaceisballer 5y ago
It’s interesting the preferences people have. My work phone has Touch ID and I’ve grown so accustomed to Face ID that Touch ID feels annoying. I also remember some time ago my wife refused to have something that didn’t have a physical keyboard (she used a Blackberry nonstop at work during that time). Then all it took was using an iPhone and now she has no desire to ever use a physical keyboard.
- greggman3 5y agoFaceID sucks with covid masks on. It also sucks with winter masks on. It was designed by people that live in Cupertino, a place where it never gets cold enough to need a face mask. I'm not saying it's bad, only that it's not a 100% perfect replacement for TouchID.
- Matthias247 5y agoWell TouchID sucked with gloves on - so pick your poison. Initially when I moved to a FaceID phone I liked it for the fact that it would unlock itself without me having to take gloves off while biking. That was a time-saver. But now in 2021 with face masks the amount of situations where TouchID would have been more time-saving is a lot higher.
- godDLL 5y agoThey have accelerometers, don't they? Can't it please be a SECRET KNOCK?
- watermelon0 5y agoFaceID + Apple Watch solves the mask issue, but requires buying another Apple device.
- ksec 5y agoThere is the most common answer on FaceID problems. I just dont like the idea of a Timepiece that requires day to day charging. If they could have make a strap or band that last weeks if not months I may actually buy one.
- ghaff 5y agoThat's the thing that prevents me from using my Apple Watch on a regular basis. On the one hand it has some nice features when it's basically tethered to my iPhone. But daily charging, especially when traveling, is a pain.
- samspenc 5y agoCame here to say this. My friend recently took a plane ride and every time he would move his mask slightly to unlock his phone through FaceID, a flight attendant would come to ask him to please put his mask back on or he would get in trouble.
- tw04 5y agoHonestly Google perfected touchid on the pixel. I thought I'd hate having it in the middle of the back of the phone after using an iPhone, but it turned out my finger was always right there anyway. I'm actually disappointed they moved away from that on the 6.
- ghaff 5y agoIf it's cold enough to need a face mask, you probably have gloves on too.
- phyrex 5y agoIt really comes down to how often you have to use it with a mask on these days.
- mc32 5y agoI have both and Touch ID is much more dependable than Face ID. Face ID is convenient but it’s not dependable. There is one case where Face ID is better and that’s when you wear gloves, but often times if it’s cold enough for gloves you may have a scarf or head winter wear on as well which would defeat Face ID. I feel they are complementary and both should be present so you can decide take my glove off or take my face coverings off.
- freeqaz 5y agoI agree with FaceID being less dependable. That's my biggest annoyance. It's awkward with the pandemic because you have to lift your mask up briefly in public to use your phone, or sit there typing a long password. I had an iPhone SE before my current 13 Mini and I really miss the TouchID (even after a few months).
- Matthias247 5y agoYou can still use a shorter (4-6 digit) pin. That's just as long to type as what we had in the pre-touch/face-id era.