TripleOne
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Face ID is OK. It's not great. It is a step back from Touch ID. With Face ID, I have to sometimes move my head a little, get a little closer, and even then it misses occasionally. It's not my phone either. Same deal with my wife's phone. I know people spend $1200 and really want to love everything, but don't fool yourselves. Touch ID was much more responsive, accurate, faster, and in my opinion, more convenient.
Face ID is OK. It's not great. It is a step back from Touch ID. With Face ID, I have to sometimes move my head a little, get a little closer, and even then it misses occasionally. It's not my phone either. Same deal with my wife's phone. I know people spend $1200 and really want to love everything, but don't fool yourselves. Touch ID was much more responsive, accurate, faster, and in my opinion, more convenient.
Face ID is OK. It's not great. It is a step back from Touch ID. With Face ID, I have to sometimes move my head a little, get a little closer, and even then it misses occasionally. It's not my phone either. Same deal with my wife's phone. I know people spend $1200 and really want to love everything, but don't fool yourselves. Touch ID was much more responsive, accurate, faster, and in my opinion, more convenient.
Give it a year or two and Face ID will catch up in terms of speed.
Touch ID is faster for now, but Face ID in my opinion is effortless.
Agreed. Totally first world problems here and I don’t want to be negative, but for example, I use my phone while it’s on my desk and the additional two steps it takes to use it is just a little annoying. Even just to use the calculator, I used to touch the home button from wherever I was sitting and plug away. Now I have to stop what I’m doing, pick up the phone, swipe up, look at it, hope that FACE ID works, then usually I have to wait for it to prompt to enter the password because unfortunately for me, a lot of the time Face ID doesn’t work. (And I reset the Face ID already) Plus, I mentioned in another thread that I sometimes use equipment that covers part of my face so it doesn’t recognize me so I guess I can disable the password or keep auto lock at an hour, then re-enable everything when I’m done. (Strange because it recognizes me even when I wear sunglasses. Go figure.)
It’s not a speed issue, either. Face ID speed doesn’t bother when it works. It’s just that it doesn’t work all the time.
Also, If I needed to use the phone while eating (pizza, for example), I would just unlock with my pinky for Touch ID and use that pinky to use the phone. Now I have to actually pick up the phone to look at it, etc. (And it won’t recognize me when I look at it while It’s sitting on my desk.)
I mentioned in another thread that I am really, really hoping that they incorporate Touch ID in a future update. Then we would have the best of both worlds.
The other weird thing is how we now close apps by pressing on the app for a couple of seconds and wait for the red ️ to appear. Sliding up on the app to close it was just so much quicker and more convenient. Again, first world whining here.
But on a positive note, I do love everything else about the X, especially the size and the display. Animojis are fun too.
Yes, I know what you mean about sitting at your desk and having to lift your phone just to change a song or check out a quick FB post... I was really trying not to focus on negative and only focus on the positive! And I totally get the little pinky thingy... LOL
I mentioned in another thread that I am really, really hoping that they somehow incorporate Touch ID in a future update. Then we would have the best of both worlds.
First day using it after setting up everything yesterday and working my way around the new features. Loving it so far and was a terrific upgrade from the 6. Face ID is pretty impressive. Was happy to see most apps with finger print access upgraded to face id. The screen / color quality is totally impressive over the older models I've used.
The more that I use Face ID, the more I like and prefer using it over Touch ID. Today was the first time trying/using it while I’ve been wearing a pair of over the ears headphones, and it’s had no problems in unlocking the phone quickly.
My only annoyance so far with Face ID is if my phone is flat on my desk at work, I have to pick the phone up for the Face ID. If I leave it down on the desk it asks for my pin
While I understand the frustration; one of the funny things in all of this is the Android users, who have FPS sensors on the back, complain about how you have to pick up the phone to make Face ID work.
I would prefer to be taken to the home screen after FaceID authentication instead of having to swipe up first.