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iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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Re: iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more

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Post by kiwijamo »

apetrovic wrote: post #175
lwansbrough wrote: post #154

Touch ID is an entirely superior technology and Apple is profoundly stupid for removing it. It doesn't have to be in the screen, just put it on the back. The lengths they'll go to offset the removal of Touch ID are astounding, from IR face tracking, to degraded biometric security, and now to requiring an Apple Watch to unlock the phone with your mask on. Talk about a Rube Goldberg machine.

I have a dry skin and Touch ID works for me 50% if I'm lucky.

I have sweaty skin and my success rate is at least as bad as yours. I confess to be very surprised at the love for TouchID here. I've used both TouchID and FaceID and I find the success rate of the latter to be much better. Perhaps we, dry and sweaty skins, are edge cases and most people apparently have 'normal' skin?

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Post by ghaff »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #189
jensvdh wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate TouchID, never works when my fingers are sweaty or I'm cooking or anything like that. FaceID is perfect.

Why not have both? This whole topic would be a non-issue if we still had Touch ID as an option.

Now you're taking up a fair bit of front of the phone real estate (and adding some cost) for a feature that I'm guessing most people don't care about. [ADDED: As others note there are potentially other options though that don't involve putting the home button back.]

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Post by estel »

teekert wrote: post #198
gpsz wrote: post #193

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It's still off for me, so perhaps you never turned it off? > famous new setting Privacy -> Tracking

But that was there before, right? I’m pretty sure. Edit: yeah I’m quite positive it was.

It was, yes. The SDK for App Tracking permissions has been there since 14.0. The change in 14.5 is that using the new APIs (and getting user permission) is now mandatory.

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Post by r0fl »

mcbutterbunz wrote: post #84

I really wish there was the option to disable the lock screen at home or on my home wifi. Or even disable the lock screen altogether but require it for certain apps.

Someone who knows you could steal your phone, go near the front door of your house/apartment to be within wifi reach, login to your phone, unlock it and then wreck havoc on your life.

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Post by Spivak »

DrBenCarson wrote: post #63
rustyminnow wrote: post #54

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You can't just enter your passcode for Apple Pay?

You can. I do it multiple times per week. It adds an extra 10s to “being ready for the register” but it’s hardly worth complaining about in a pandemic.

I just wish Apple Pay had a longer timeout because I want to have it open before I reach the register but by the time they're ready to scan it reauths.

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Post by kiwijamo »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #26
pcl wrote: post #10

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Anecdotally, in the last few weeks, FaceID just started working for me with a couple of the types of masks I’ve been wearing. I wonder if they have made some tweaks to their recognition algorithms / are doing any sort of additional training on the fly. I don’t have an Apple Watch, and am running 14.4.2.

I don't have any links to back it up or anything, but my impression is that Face ID continually trains itself as you use it to help keep up with facial changes over time. At the very least I know it takes the data from failed attempts immediately followed by passcode unlock and uses it for training. Depending on how either is implemented I could see it getting "used" to a masked face with enough samples. The question…

Interesting I wonder how it deals with the case of e.g. someone giving their phone to another person (e.g. spouse) who then uses the passcode. I guess they could try and work out if it is a variation of the same person or if it is someone else entirely.

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Post by da_big_ghey »

nindalf wrote: post #8

Happy about being able to unlock the phone with my watch. Arrived after a year of mask wearing, but better late than never. Impossible to say right now when we'll put our masks away, if ever.

In obvious mask will have gone before this year is completed. I am not wearing in most place now that we are not having mandate and i am having had my shots. It is in similar for persons around me. "if ever" is silly.

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Post by justapassenger »

clairity wrote: post #207
mrgreenfur wrote: post #120

Lots of comments here on the watch unlock, while the new privacy controls are requiring apps to ask for IDFA before it's given (and before you'retracked across apps with any identifiers). The MarTech industry is panicking to adapt and become compliant and there are estimates that it will drop ad targeting by ~75%. I see this as a huge win for privacy, if Apple actually enforces it (They have given no guidance on how…

also, a little poke in the eye of google: apple is proxying google's safe browsing lookups through its own servers so google gets less direct info about ios users.

Protect yourself against one giant tech corporation, by sending all your data through other giant tech corporation.

Apple is really great at marketing.

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Post by kiwijamo »

GordonS wrote: post #24
drewg123 wrote: post #4

That's a step in the right direction, but I sorely miss the Android "trusted bluetooth device" that would keep your phone unlocked. I have really poor timing, and upgraded from a Google Pixel 2 to an iPhone with face id (and no touch id)just before the pandemic. Now I have to type my passcode to unlock whenever I'm wearing a mask because I have a Garmin watch and won't consider downgrading to an Apple watch. The Garm…

I have my Android phone linked to my Bluetooth headset, so my phone remains unlocked while I'm at my desk - I really like this feature. Another neat feature was/is "trusted location", where your phone would remain unlocked while at home, for example. I used to have this enabled, but unfortunately the option disappeared after an update on my Xiaomi phone a whole back :(

Aha that explains why I can't find it on my Xiaomi. Was this an stock Android feature or something Xiaomi added in then took out?
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