Poll: ** The Official iPhone X Thread **

Which iPhone X are you getting?

  • Silver 64GB

    Votes: 35 6.6%

  • Space Grey 64GB

    Votes: 53 10.0%

  • Silver 256GB

    Votes: 31 5.8%

  • Space Grey 256GB

    Votes: 98 18.4%

  • I want one but it's too expensive

    Votes: 125 23.5%

  • I'm not interested

    Votes: 190 35.7%
  • Total voters
    532
In all fairness people will forget about TouchID simply due to this hype... coz newer must be better lol.

But for myself, I’m still going to use my 8 plus for another year and wait for second gen iPhone X coz touchid is still a part of my life... I don’t really need to even think about unlocking my phone becoz my thumb is always at the home button whenever I pickup my phone and it’s always unlocked before I even look at the phone lol

I do hope they put touchid back in second gen
 
I’ve been working outside a lot recently and have noticed a distinct increase in failed authentications from wet, dirty or dusty hands. A friend whose a body builder can’t use Touch ID at all as his fingers are so weathered from the gym.

I think FaceID could be a big improvement for a lot of people as it gets better.
 
From the reviews I've seen Face ID works well enough to not need touch ID. OK there are going to be situations where having touch ID would be handier but well, apple does what apple wants.

I cannot see them going into all this effort to then bring back touch ID on the next gen personally. It needs to improve though after watching a video where nearly identical twins can unlock each others phones etc.

Still, i'd imagine that with it being apple it's already a darn sight more reliable than my Note 7 was!
 
JamesM said:
I cannot see them going into all this effort to then bring back touch ID on the next gen personally. It needs to improve though after watching a video where nearly identical twins can unlock each others phones etc.
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If you're identical twins, I can't imagine how they could fix that.
 
Indeed - most people will never bump into that one-in-a-million doppelganger that would be able to unlock their phone. Identical twins are just unfortunate (as far as Face ID goes) to be related to theirs. The main thing that will get improved is the speed of unlocking and accuracy as far as intentional/unintentional unlocks go.
 
Apple's Chief of Hardware Engineering has already gone on record saying they never scrapped TouchID behind the glass last minute and they weren't trying to get it underneath the glass for this year. They got FaceID to the state they were happy with and have decided to go all in with it. I doubt it's coming back.

“Arguably the toughest challenge that we had is to replace Touch ID,” Apple’s Dan Riccio says. “It was very, very hard. If we were going to replace it we wanted to replace it with something that was at the end of the day both better and more natural.”

Riccio also flatly counters the narrative that Apple was still trying to use Touch ID in the iPhone X this year.

“I heard some rumor [that] we couldn’t get Touch ID to work through the glass so we had to remove that,” Riccio says, answering a question about whether there were late design changes. “When we hit early line of sight on getting Face ID to be [as] good as it was, we knew that if we could be successful we could enable the product that we wanted to go off and do and if that’s true it could be something that we could burn the bridges and be all in with. This is assuming it was a better solution. And that’s what we did. So we spent no time looking at fingerprints on the back or through the glass or on the side because if we did those things, which would be a last-minute change, they would be a distraction relative to enabling the more important thing that we were trying to achieve, which was Face ID done in a high-quality way.”
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UberTiger said:
I’ve been working outside a lot recently and have noticed a distinct increase in failed authentications from wet, dirty or dusty hands. A friend whose a body builder can’t use Touch ID at all as his fingers are so weathered from the gym.

I think FaceID could be a big improvement for a lot of people as it gets better.
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If my thumb is even slightly moist, TouchID has issues. When both the sensor and thumb are dry it is flawless.
 
TouchID is terrible and always has been. I work outside a lot and my fingerprints can wear slightly thus 8/10 times it never recognises my fingerprint and reverts me to entering a passcode. Highly annoying!
 
I do like TouchID, I am under the impression my original 6 is breaking though, having to put the passcode in relatively frequently. Maybe my fingers have changed or it just needs a good clean!

Either that or it's just placebo because I want an X :(
 
Cosmic182 said:
TouchID is terrible and always has been. I work outside a lot and my fingerprints can wear slightly thus 8/10 times it never recognises my fingerprint and reverts me to entering a passcode. Highly annoying!
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I wouldn't say it's terrible, I like it a lot. But I think it's easy for those of us with clean office jobs to say it's fantastic and nothing can beat it because it works to reliably for them, when in reality there's a large number of people that do have issues with it due to their lifestyle, where the live or line of work.
 
TouchID is near on flawless for me, obviously if your hands are covered in crud or worn then it’s not going to work. Same way FaceID won’t work if you’re wearing a gas mask. Everything will have some sort of limitation.
 
I can see pluses and minuses with both systems. In the car for example I'm concerned that with Face ID when I want to unlock my phone in it's cradle, it won't work without me looking at it.
 
Rilot said:
I can see pluses and minuses with both systems. In the car for example I'm concerned that with Face ID when I want to unlock my phone in it's cradle, it won't work without me looking at it.
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Surely as a Don you shouldn't be condoning illegal use of phone while in charge of a vehicle ;)
 
The law states you can only use it hands-free while in the vehicle... ie, using voice commands or steering wheel controls... if you have to unlock it, you are handling it
 
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