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

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Post by walterbell »

kiwijamo wrote: post #211
walterbell wrote: post #73

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Latest iPhone SE and iPad Air are both TouchID only - and wonderful.

Oh thank you. I've been making up my mind over which phone to get next. You've just helped me rule out the SE. The TouchID is one feature I've never had reliable experience with. I have sweaty hands, and it seems TouchID has trouble with fingers with sweat on them. But even when I dry my hands before attempting it it wouldn't always work. I thought FaceID would be worse until $WORK gave my team an Apple with FaceID.…

Mask-independent TouchID on the $399 iPhone SE has been 100% reliable. Even works in the dark, including close distances where FaceID forces you to move the phone back so it can focus. Allows the phone to be unlocked with one hand without looking, when multitasking.

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Post by microtherion »

mirthflat83 wrote: post #248
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.

Sorry, it’s not. Face ID: Just pick up your phone and your phone automatically unlocks with your face. This experience is way superior than having to position your finger at a specific place every time you want to unlock it. Putting it on the back is even worse, you need to actually pick up your phone from the desk just to unlock it. I swear HN readers would create devices with the worst UX possible.

I like Face ID with phones. For iPad, getting the angle right for the face to be recognized seems trickier, so overall the Touch ID experience was superior.

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Post by thebean11 »

aikinai wrote: post #27
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #18

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An even better solution would be to just show the "unlock with passcode" button at all times, and not just after Face ID has spent 15 seconds not recognising you because you have a mask on.

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

For me it totally depends on the type of mask. Extremely annoying.

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Post by quenix »

rrebelo wrote: post #200
dmitriid wrote: post #50

I wish they added "unlock Mac/use id on Mac with iPhone". But no, they only introduce TouchId on a keyboard that only works with M1 chips.

> I wish they added "unlock Mac/use id on Mac with iPhone". Me too. So I made a program that does exactly that: https://www.gadgetish.com/osx.html It also works with Android phones, Android Wear watches, Tizen (Samsung) watches, ... even some earbuds or smart tags.

This sounds insecure. Do you store the user’s password on disk?

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Post by thebean11 »

zuppy wrote: post #32
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #18

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An even better solution would be to just show the "unlock with passcode" button at all times, and not just after Face ID has spent 15 seconds not recognising you because you have a mask on.

they actually do this, but it doesn’t look like a button. the “face id” text that is shown when it tries to recognize your face is clickable and it brings the password form. awesome ux...

..thank you so much

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Post by quenix »

da_big_ghey wrote: post #243
dagmx wrote: post #181

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The iOS keyboard shows your recently used emojis and has a search bar. So it's easy to find what you want. Additionally many of the gender and skin tone ones are behind a selector so don't eat into the number of emojis on screen. The point of emoji is to represent real world culture and communication. I don't use a ton of the Emojis. I'm not complaining because exists.

we had a better idea when all emoji were existing as yellows only. we are having no need for to reference skin color in small pictogram. is seeming very like american thing, pushing race obsession on rest of this earth.

I’m not American—never lived there—and have no issue with skin color in emojis. Perhaps this isn’t as big of a deal as you make it out to be.

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Post by tomjen3 »

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…

I don't know if I should be happy that Apple fixed that, or mad that they introduced the IDFA in the first place.

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Post by neilalexander »

microtherion wrote: post #262
mirthflat83 wrote: post #248

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Sorry, it’s not. Face ID: Just pick up your phone and your phone automatically unlocks with your face. This experience is way superior than having to position your finger at a specific place every time you want to unlock it. Putting it on the back is even worse, you need to actually pick up your phone from the desk just to unlock it. I swear HN readers would create devices with the worst UX possible.

I like Face ID with phones. For iPad, getting the angle right for the face to be recognized seems trickier, so overall the Touch ID experience was superior.

I've actually found the opposite to be true - my iPad Pro will Face ID happily in any orientation and quite far off centre, whereas my face has to be very much centred for my iPhone to do the same.

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Post by dagmx »

da_big_ghey wrote: post #243
dagmx wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The iOS keyboard shows your recently used emojis and has a search bar. So it's easy to find what you want. Additionally many of the gender and skin tone ones are behind a selector so don't eat into the number of emojis on screen. The point of emoji is to represent real world culture and communication. I don't use a ton of the Emojis. I'm not complaining because exists.

we had a better idea when all emoji were existing as yellows only. we are having no need for to reference skin color in small pictogram. is seeming very like american thing, pushing race obsession on rest of this earth.

The yellow emoji remain. Skin tones are an option. They literally do not affect you if you do not want to use them, but provide people who do want to use them or have representation, the ability to do so.
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