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

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Post by matdehaast »

tinyprojects wrote: post #164

Everyone is missing the point. This is the start of a major battle between two tech juggernauts. One look at the Facebook ads manager will show you Facebook is very scared about this privacy update and trying to do everything in their power to mitigate it. Apple is the gatekeeper and Facebook can't do anything about it. Their dominant revenue stream is about to be strangled. I think Zuckerberg realizes he is screwed…

Good chance FB will own the VR space from platform on a hardware and software level. My bet is they will be bigger in 10 years than they are now if VR materialises

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Post by mirthflat83 »

gambiting wrote: post #201
adrr wrote: post #179

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Never used a Samsung phone but touchId and faceid gates access to payments, passwords and banking apps. Typing a complex password on touch screen isn’t very fun.

Same on Android.

What a terribly not secure phone then.

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Post by philsnow »

masklinn wrote: post #219
jensvdh wrote: post #165

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

FaceID is perfect in no sense of the term. FaceID works better when your hands are dirty or unavailable (e.g. you're wearing gloves), TouchID works better when your face is covered or your look changed slightly[0]. FaceID has been a strict downgrade for me, there are very few situations where FaceID works and TouchID wouldn't have, the reverse is a daily occurrence. And things would be even worse if I couldn't work f…

my vision is poor enough that without contacts/glasses I can't simultaneously both

  1. hold the phone far enough away from my face for faceid to work, and 
  2. focus my eyes on the screen
so if I wake up in the middle of the night, I always have to use my passcode to unlock my phone.

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Post by Exuma »

mcphage wrote: post #214
Exuma wrote: post #182

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Ok well then we are missing a metric shit ton of emojis related to me, and now I am HYPER offended that they're not included. For one, I'm tall. I see now emoji which emphasizes my tallness. I lie awake each night in excruciating agony at being under represented. I also have a large amount of cowlicks that make my hair unlike any haircut currently available in emojis, as I need to cut my hair a weird way. I find this…

> and now I am HYPER offended that they're not included Are you actually offended? Or are you just claiming to be offended in order to get your way, while simultaneously complaining that other people claim to be offended to get their way?

If you can't detect that this is sarcasm you might need to get your radar defragmented

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Post by janandonly »

Hamuko wrote: post #11
Tsiklon wrote: post #5

5G on Dual Sim is a useful update, prior to this it was only possible to have 5G on one of the accounts (The hardware SIM, I think was the default not the eSIM)

Are people actually on 5G?

Sure. Here in Holland 5G from t-mobile is super fast too. We get 300Mbit down and 60Mbit up, easily.... I should remark though, that I used to get 200Mbit down anyways on 4G, only the upload was a lot slower..

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Post by gambiting »

mirthflat83 wrote: post #252
gambiting wrote: post #201

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Same on Android.

What a terribly not secure phone then.

Which one? Android is an operating system, not a phone. There are ones which are just as secure as an iPhone(Samsung with its Samsung Knox vault) and cheap phones which have only basic fingerprint readers(and even then I don't see what the problem is, the biometric data is stored in the storage managed by the reader chip, inaccessible to the rest of the device for every commercial fingerprint reader out there). I thought HN was all about having consumer choice?

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Post by microtherion »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #123
_jal wrote: post #67

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I just fixed it by turning off FaceID. Apple reached phone perfection with the iPhone 4; they reached access perfection with touchID. Things have gotten worse since then.

> Apple reached phone perfection with the iPhone 4; Thank you, I tell people that I liked developing on that platform and the only reason I still don't is because XCode no longer supports it and I get critized like I'm a luddite. It's a phone, you can't do a lot more on device other than add new sensors and new networking technology... it's like buying a new car because it has a 2021 instead of a 2020, it hasn't chan…

Cameras, to name just one feature, have improved to a ridiculous extent since the iPhone 4.

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Post by robotnixon »

r0fl wrote: post #224
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.

Android has had this feature for years and it still requires an initial unlock of the device to remain unlocked at the location you've picked. So when I get home I still have to manually unlock my phone once to keep it unlocked. As an extra safety measure the phone locks itself again after 4 hours.

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Post by diebeforei485 »

fireattack wrote: post #44
aikinai wrote: post #27

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They fixed this a few versions ago. Now if it sees a mask, it shows the passcode input immediately.

Still sounds weird to me. I use an Android phone, I can unlock my phone at anytime using either face, fingerprint, or passcode. What exactly is the reason/rationale that it has to fail on facial recognition first before proceeding to use passcode?

> What exactly is the reason/rationale that it has to fail on facial recognition first before proceeding to use passcode?

To better train the facial recognition system, perhaps.

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