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IAmDrNoLife t1_j22wa94 wrote

FaceID is the single best thing that Apple has ever implemented into their phones.

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That is my take. I hate, absolutely fucking hate, TouchID. Almost never worked. Only gave me frustration. It was so annoying.

With FaceID, I take out my phone, I look at it and swipe up, and then I can use it. It always just works. Anyone who ever complains that "but I have to look at it", well yes, in order to use your phone, you do have to look at it. This goes for both Touch- and FaceID. At least with FaceID, that's the only thing you need to do (and it actually works).

It's so bad, that I'll never buy a phone that does not have FaceID. My iPad doesn't have it, and it's annoying. More often than not, I just use the password, so I don't have to sit through several attemps at using TouchID that will inevitably fail multiple times, thus forcing me to use the password anyways.

Same thing goes for laptops. My current one has a fingerprint scanner, and it works like fucking 10% of the time. Sure, it's cool when it works, but it's so rare.

I really despise fingerprint scanners.

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GrreggWithTwoRs t1_j2384dy wrote

So odd, TouchID works for me flawlessly and immediately nearly every time, whereas FaceID is slower even when it recognizes me quickly, and has way more errors.

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Dry_Contribution9928 t1_j236tfs wrote

I agree with you, Face ID is just so amazing and I was really happy to get it on my laptop becuase my old laptops fingerprint scanner straight up stopped working after the first 2 days.

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MDM3331 t1_j23cg3y wrote

Something is up with either the way you add your prints or they keep changing for some reason for it to fail so often. Even first gen touch id doesn't mess up this bad for most people

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IAmDrNoLife t1_j23cxy2 wrote

Might be. The phone I had was a 6S, and the fingerprint scanner worked at best 50% of the time.

All I can say with certainty is that I followed the setup instructions to a T. I also ended up doing the setup process many times over, because it was incredible how bad the fingerprint scanner worked. But it was always bad.

But yeah, it caused me great frustration. So I'm really happy about FaceID. That, and the gesture based navigation, was the reasons I switched to an iPhone X as soon as it came out.

But yeah, if it wasn't clear before. My iPhone had a better fingerprint scanner than my laptop. That I will give Apple. While it was still trash (in my opinion), it still worked better than my current laptop does.

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