This is a bit offtopic (but im genuinely curious since i dont use iPhones) but is there any advantage to using faceid over touchid in iphones?
This Notch/Dynamic Island looks terrible IMO. Also you can "Authorize" stuff without even having physical access to your device, someone could in theory pick up your phone, make it face towards you, say "LOOK!" and your phone is unlocked.
Also i found it far more unreliable to instantly unlock.
A fingerprint reader inside the powerbutton is the way to go IMO, you instantly unlock when u press the power button, you have to actually touch the device to verify and you have no notch.
IIRC just looking at the confirmation if i wanted to buy something in the app store via face id was enough to confirm it.
I believe Apple UX guidelines mandate some sort of explicit confirmation before taking any action after authenticating the user with Face ID, but I've unfortunately also seen many apps not really conform to that.
> IIRC just looking at the confirmation if i wanted to buy something in the app store via face id was enough to confirm it.
Apple themselves are generally good about asking for explicit confirmation, but annoyingly in a way nobody else can replicate: They repurposed double pressing the power button, which is otherwise the Apple Pay secure attention sequence, for exactly one non-Apple-Pay action – buying something in the App Store (or iTunes store etc.)
> This is a bit offtopic (but im genuinely curious since i dont use iPhones) but is there any advantage to using faceid over touchid in iphones?
Touch ID is far, far, far superior to Face ID.
I just want Touch ID to return on iPhones. Oh how I hate, hate, hate Face ID and its inability to read my face without my glasses when I get up in the morning.
For me the biggest advantage of faceid is that it isn't bothered by wet fingers or gloves. It works most of the time, where I remember struggling more (though still not often) with touchid. This was with an iphone 8, so I don't know how good they are now.
This. I’d complain more about Face ID if Apple Pay wasn’t the first payment mechanism I’ve used that reliably fulfills the promise of being faster/easier than cash, and Face ID + mechanical button is a big part of that.
Still, Apple Pay was way more reliable with TouchID.
Step 1 : take the phone off your pocket
Step 2 : put it against the terminal while touching (not pressing) the home button.
Step 3 : there is no step 3, you already paid because even if the phone wasn’t unlocked the NFC reader automatically unlocked it, opened your default card and validated the payment thanks to your finger being on the reader.
Compared to FaceID, no need to double press a button and to watch your screen waiting for the little animation to finish.
Don’t get me wrong, paying with FaceID totally works and it’s fast. But paying with TouchID wasn’t fast, it was instant and thoughtless.
FaceID is much slower than TouchID, FaceID fails with wet glasses, it fails with a breathing mask. I can’t use the phone with wet fingers or gloves so needing a bare dry finger for TouchID is fine. FaceID annoyingly worse.
I find both of them equally (un)reliable. I feel like they both work(ed) about 80% of the time.
The most annoying failure case for FaceID for me is using it in bed. I'm a side sleeper so half of my face is mushed into the pillow. I realize how lazy this sounds, but when I'm half asleep... that is exactly when I don't feel like tapping out a PIN or repositioning my head.
A fingerprint reader inside the powerbutton
is the way to go IMO
I really wish the phone had both methods, TBH.
I love the "reader inside the powerbutton" idea, but... phone cases....
Yea, the faceid in the bed thing is very annoying when using my "tinker iphone" in the bed. Havent found Fingerprint auth unreliable, but my hands and phone mostly stay very clean and i have my finger added 2-3 times for faster and more reliable scans.
My phone has the fingerprint reader in the power button, all cases just leave the powerbutton open.
They scan your eyes and make sure you're actually looking at it to prevent exactly that attack. The problem with it is twins, or even people who's faces are similar enough (mother/daughter or sisters) can be enough to unlock.
You just have to not look at your phone. I don’t mean “rotate your head away”, I mean just don’t look at it with your eyes. If your eyes aren’t looking at the phone it won’t unlock.
Isnt the issue not the wetness itself but the wrinkles your finger get after being in water for longer periods of time?
Atleast I cant remember when rain was so bad my fingers wrinkled
true after a bath tho
No, when I had a Touch ID iPhone, it would often have trouble reading my fingerprint even if my hands were just still damp from being washed in the sink for a few seconds and not fully towel-dried.
A fingerprint reader inside the powerbutton is the way to go IMO, you instantly unlock when u press the power button, you have to actually touch the device to verify and you have no notch.
IIRC just looking at the confirmation if i wanted to buy something in the app store via face id was enough to confirm it.