I hope this isn’t real. What a waste of R&D that would be.
Rumor sites have been talking about iPhone Fold and in-screen touch ID for the past five years and neither have come to fruition.
I honestly don’t know what the point of Touch ID is if it’s not part of a home button. FaceID works fine and doesn’t require additional hardware. I’d rather see the home button make a comeback since I’m not a fan of having to memorize gestures for hidden UI.
Faceid sucks if you have any kind of mask. if you are nearsighted and tend to hold the phone closer than the camera expects it flat out doesn’t work. It’s slower than touchid. It was absolutely stupid for them to completely remove the fingerprint sensor and it’s stupid that they added a new button that’s touch sensitive but somehow isn’t a fingerprint reader.
It also absolutely requires additional hardware. the truedepth camera system, which is actually a series of lasers and sensors:
but tbf it’s thanks to that hardware that we have vtubers so that worked out. love me some korone
FaceID has had the ability to register while wearing a mask for a while now (although it came a bit too late as by the time it came out most places had got rid of mandatory mask requirements)
Faceid with mask relies even further on id of eye region so if you wear glasses, especially thick ones that tend to distort light, it sucks.
Same thing if you use the phone for virtual avatar tracking/vtuber stuff. If you wear glasses, especially thick ones, you have to play with the eye tracking sensitivity and usually turn it way down or it will think your eyes are closed most of the time.
From what I’ve read online it seems people who don’t wear glasses also have trouble but it’s hard to say whether that’s genuinely a defect, user error, configuration issue, etc as literally any feature change made by any tech company will have a bunch of threads with people griping about how it sucks tbf.
Also there’s the inherent stupidity that they made a touch less unlock to replace fingerprinting that is slower and still requires you to touch the phone to unlock it, except now you have to touch it in a more obtrusive way (swipe up). iphone 8 you could literally pick up the phone by the home button and it was almost guaranteed to be unlocked by the time you brought it to your face
This is not my experience. None of it.
I suspect you’re using a few cases of bad experiences and applying it to all of the technology.
Either that or you’re criticizing Face ID from multiple generations ago.
It works.
Iphone 16, regularly happens, doesn’t work reliably for users with high myopia. I am not the only one, you will find other similar complaints. Just because it works for you doesn’t mean it works for everyone?
You’ve been told by multiple people that they don’t have that bad experience.
Okay? I’m not saying it never works for anyone, I’m saying for a subset of users with certain conditions it does not work well. If you are a person who doesn’t wear glasses or has glasses that aren’t extremely high index, don’t have strabismus/eye alignment issues then great for you, I’m so happy that you get a phone that works I guess?
But I’m telling you that it doesn’t work for me and there are reports of people with the same issues:
https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/mozq7z/my_face_id_suddenly_wont_work_with_my_glasses_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7bgs6g/faceid_fails_due_to_lazy_eye/ (old but the next two are the same issue from last year)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252296478?sortBy=rank
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255864129?sortBy=rank
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255562829?sortBy=rank
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255981605?answerId=261208009022&sortBy=rank#261208009022
(Note the similar questions on apple boards).
Now you’ve been told that it doesn’t work by multiple people (or do they not count because they’re not here to defend themselves). You sound like a shithead software developer who is convinced disabled people don’t exist so they don’t have to do the extra work of covering for edge cases. That is honestly probably what’s going on here, and could easily be fixed by just putting touchid in the new button to eschew faceid entirely for people that it works poorly for.
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Hidden UI is all throughout the various “26” operating systems. I feel sorry for any new users that are coming to the OS and need some afordance for where to click, tap, drag or swipe.
yawn
