[iMore Question]

hello,

i live in a cold state (the great state of Michigan) and i have to wear gloves in the winter. is there going to be a way to unlock my phone with gloves on any time soon? i originally thought what a great idea...and unless someone has an answer this might be the stupidest purchase of my life. I got an Iphone 5 thats 2 years old.

[warcraftWidow]

1. Can't use fingerprint scanner without your fingerprint
2. You cannot have a two year old iPhone 5 because they didn't exist until around Sept 2012.

[TiredOfPhoneWar]

Welcome, no you dont even need to unlock with finger print scanner because your iphone 5 just cant do that, fingerprint scanner is for the iphone 5s

[EmceeGeek]

I don't see why it would be a stupid idea to buy an iPhone 5s just because of Michigan winters (I'm from there too). I wear gloves too and in that case you type in your pass code. I don't see Apple ever making a screen and touch ID that is glove compatible.

You don't have to have touch ID activated on your phone though.


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[TiredOfPhoneWar]

I misunderstood , well you dont need to activate the id scanner, just use the passcode instead

[pr1nce]

You can't use Touch ID with your gloves on.

[phreddyl]

How would you like apple to create a fingerprint scanner with gloves? I would have to think its impossible. I guess if you want you can buy the gloves that don't cover the finger tips

[iEd]

Take your gloves off.


#Naked Tuesday

[Jaguarr40]

If your actual skin does not make direct contact with the scanners silicon disk it just does not read but then I suppose you got that message by now and I did not really need to even answer. Oh well I could not resist.