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Out of curiosity, what makes you attached to Touch ID? Face ID is one of my favorite things about my SE to mini upgrade.
by rkomorn 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes you attached to Touch ID? Face ID is one of my favorite things about my SE to mini upgrade.
- wolfgang000 1y agoI don't want to look at my iPhone every time I need to unlock it, for example, when I am riding my motorbike, the helmet would block my face. This isn't a problem when I use Touch ID because I can use fingerless gloves. Another case is when I need to discreetly check my phone for a moment, like when I am in a meeting or a dinner. I don't have anything against Face Id, BUT I just don't see why they eliminate the sensor and remove the option.
- rkomorn 1y agoMakes sense. Thanks. :)
- BuckRogers 1y agoI used to think the same thing. And ya TouchID is handy sometimes over FaceID. But FaceID overall between the two if one has to choose is superior. If you haven't lived with it daily yet, I wouldn't let that stop you from getting a 13 mini. It helps a lot too with longevity, less to break. You are obviously one of us, those that keep their phones for a very long time. It never needs wiped off, it's incredibly consistent. The durability feature starts to matter when you're using something this many years. Not trying to change your mind, just share a perspective as I do understand where you're coming from for sure. You're not exactly wrong.
- walterbell 1y agoSpeed of unlock and minimal distraction via one motor memory gesture.
- humpty-d 1y agoI prefer face id because of speed of unlock via 0 motor memory gestures tbh.
- walterbell 1y ago> 0 motor memory gestures It's worse than motor memory (no thought required) gesture, because it requires a more expensive non-motor-memory physical movement that depends on context of the human. Face ID requires moving and orienting phone close enough for the Face ID sensor to capture a 3D image of face and moving eyes for attention, so it's a function of both phone and human position. TouchID is context free: grab phone and touch button in fixed position. By the time the phone has turned to facing the user, it is already unlocked. Touch ID is much faster than Face ID.
- quamserena 1y agoI like having a tactile home button.
- oakesm9 1y agoThe iPhone hasn’t had a “real” home button since the iPhone 7 in 2016. It’s a static touch pad with haptic feedback.
- pseudalopex 1y agoHaptic feedback is tactile.
- pxc 1y agoNot very. Try touch typing on a touchscreen keyboard with haptic feedback
- pseudalopex 1y agoHaptic and tactile mean related to touch.
- quamserena 1y agoI happen to still use an iPhone from 2016 as my daily driver.
- WhyNotHugo 1y agoI love TouchID and can’t stand FaceID. But the home button is terrible. It’s just too hard to be used comfortable, and I end up hang that floating software button instead.
- WhyNotHugo 1y agoFaceID works a very few angles with glasses. Won’t work if my glasses have been exposed to rain (it rains like 70% of the year where I live). Struggle to work with face masks and glasses. I have to hold the phone at eye level to unlock it (ie: can’t unlock it discretely). If I’m lying in bed and the phone is lying in front of me, I can just tap to unlock with TouchID, but need to shuffle it around and raise my face for FaceID. I rolled back to TouchID after a few months, it was intolerable. I have an impression this gets worse the more correction your glasses have.
- rkomorn 1y agoHuh. I've got pretty bad eyesight (so I've got noticeable corrective lenses) and I can't say I've noticed any of the issues you mention. I actually had to disable some FaceID stuff because it was too easy to get to the Home Screen when I wanted to just look at the clock.