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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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> 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?
You made a fair and necessary question but I'd be embarrassed to even think about storing the password on disk, even if encrypted.
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.
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I already have an Apple watch, and still resent that their solution for removing the fingerprint scanner is buying a new expensive accessory. Under-display fingerprint readers have existed for years, so it's not an aesthetics issue.
Under display fingerprint scanners suck. I have a Galaxy S20 for work and it rarely works. I also have a A71 5G which is even worse. With winter dry skin (and/or light abrasion from woodworking projects), I can't even unlock the phones at all.
When the hell is Apple going to finally allow push notifications for the web?
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.
Putting TouchID on the back would render it unusable for me due to my phone case.
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Not in the S20, at least. I was about to leave the exact same message but I went to a 12 Pro with Face ID because I couldn't stand Samsung's implementation. If people think that Face ID is inaccurate, then they clearly haven't used under-screen readers. They're slow, unreliable, and imprecise.
S20 was particularly bad, give S21 a try though if you get the chance - they improved the scanning speed and the scanning area is now 2x the size so it's a lot easier to unlock the phone.
It's especially draining when every first interaction with the phone is essentially "Are my fingers too sweaty? oily? Did I tap long enough? Did I press hard enough? Too hard? Did I even tap the right place? Screw it I'll just enter my PIN".
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Why not have both? This whole topic would be a non-issue if we still had Touch ID as an option.
How about anywhere cold enough to require gloves, and reasonable enough to require face masks?
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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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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.
The iPhone SE is physically the same shape and size as the 4 but with much better internals. To me, that is "peak iPhone". I still use an SE to control a few things around the house. Without a SIM, with the mobile radios and bluetooth disabled but wifi enabled, and with Apple's idiotic News app that nobody wants disabled, the battery lasts for 20 days. Peak iPhone.