Hey question. Currently, if an officer has you under arrest they go through your phone. With a strong password, they tend to give up. With FaceID wont they just put it to your face and unlock it?
I think it won't unlock if you close your eyes.
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#822$1000 for higher fidelity snapchat features. I love my iphone camera, and if the upgrade program isn't too terrible, I will get the iPhoneX, but call me underwhelmed. The implementation of faceID seems really poorly thought out. I can unlock my phone, and navigate it before focusing my attention on it. I feel like "attention to unlock" is going to cause an increase in distracted driver related incidents.
"This is an image straight out of the camera, with no post processing. All we've done is apply a Portrait Filter to fade out the background." Uhhh, I guess that doesn't count as post processing, then.
I believe they meant that in the sense that they didn't modify it in anyway on the computer, it's exactly what would show up on your photo roll on the device after you press the shutter button.
My understanding is that the iPhone applys GOBS of processing to reduce noise and do other things to make such beautiful looking photos from such a pathetically tiny sensor. I assume other phones do as well.
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#823So does it bug anyone else that the status bar around the notch looks misaligned? The rounded corners make me feel think it's sticking out past the bottom of the notch, and there's this huge empty space above it. Especially weird with the clock. Maybe it's one of those things that looks better in person.
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#824So how secure is FaceID actually? It does a 3d scan like the Microsoft Kinect and maybe gathers some more light information in the infrared sprectrum, but that can easily be circumvented with advanced 3D printing. They even demonstrate that it recognizes you with facial modification like a new beard, a new haircut or a new pair of glasses. By bet it that this technology is totally overblown and circumvented quickly.
They said it's 20 times more secure than touch ID, which since it uses more data I could believe.
They also said that they got special-effects artists and other things to work on it and try and make it hard to track. I imagine it's going to take a lot more than a simple 3D printed head to trick.
We all knew as soon as this phone is released people are going to start trying to break this, it should be fun to see what people find.
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#825I find it fascinating how hard Apple make it to find the battery capacity (mAh or Wh) for iPhones.
My understanding is that they do not want people to make a direct mAh capacity comparison to competing phones on the basis that iPhone can "squeeze out" more out of the smaller battery thanks to optimisations.
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#826> Your face is now your password no, it isnt. and neither are your fingerprints. none of this publicly available data is a password. a password is something i can change if it gets compromised. a password is secure from others. biometric data is a username/id . why do companies insist on getting this shit backwards?
Their job is to sell. They want everyone watching to understand exactly what they mean. For what it's worth, I would say that Face ID isn't quite a username either. Once known, anyone can reproduce a username. I can't easily recreate your face even if I know you well. That would require an extra set of skills/equipment. The same argument goes for Touch ID.
It isn't a username or password, it's another factor, similar to how we identify people that we know.
It's not perfect, which is why we have policies for accessing things. It's almost certainly a better security mechanism than a password.
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#827They make is so easy to login to the phone -- I'm still waiting for the ability to add multiple users. When I hand my phone to my daughter she should see her apps, my son, his. And when I hand my phone to my wife, she should unlock it and see.... her phone . If 256GB local storage and 11ac WiFi isn't enough storage and bandwidth to make this easy, I would be OK if it only kept the last GB of the camera roll. Of cours…
Why would you restrict this to iDevices?
I'm not sure what you mean? It's not going to work as a 3rd party service. So Apple can do it for its customers and I guess Google for its own, and Microsoft, and so on....
But how is Google going to ensure "full portability" across the lineup of all Android devices in the same way that Apple could do so for iOS?
Edit: Maybe this is what you meant? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15234615
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#828They make is so easy to login to the phone -- I'm still waiting for the ability to add multiple users. When I hand my phone to my daughter she should see her apps, my son, his. And when I hand my phone to my wife, she should unlock it and see.... her phone . If 256GB local storage and 11ac WiFi isn't enough storage and bandwidth to make this easy, I would be OK if it only kept the last GB of the camera roll. Of cours…
What does my twin brother see when I hand him my phone?
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#829Probably not a good sign that FaceID failed on stage for Craig on his first try (had to use a passcode to log in) during the demo.
I don't think it failed, it just said you had to use passcode on first login after restart, just like the touchID
The message during the demo said "Your passcode is required to enable Face ID"
This indicates an error. When you have too many failed Touch ID attempts, the iPhone says "Your passcode is required to enable Touch ID"
After you restart your phone, the message is "Touch ID requires your passcode when iPhone restarts"
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#830Rather off-topic question. How do you make an animation via scrolling like their "X"?