I'm on a Max so maybe the bigger battery makes a difference, but with my usage I get two days before I need to charge. I do turn off other features to save battery tho.
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Forbes: “We broke into a bunch of Android phones (including Samsung S9) with a 3D printed head,” iPhone X “impenetrable”
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I'm on the XR and get really good battery life as well. I just noticed I was accidentally causing the screen to come on when I didn't want to. I do wish there was an option to remove swipe to go to the home screen though.
Yeah, I'm sure there's a reason for it, but I could do without that as well.
Pretty much any biometrics-based security system is ultimately a less secure shortcut for unlocking the device, anyway. You should already be lowering your expectations of security just by using it.
I recently upgraded to XS Max and I'll be the first to tell you that I was skeptic on Face ID, but it really does work. In the dark, I just need the screen to be bright enough for it to recognize my face, which I find amazing when I wake up early in the morning.
Set FaceID to require attention. (On by default.) If someone holds it in front of your face just avoid eye contact with it. After a few attempts it will go into a fail state and require a PIN to unlock.
Apple has a "kill switch" for this. Hold power and volume up for a few seconds. FaceID will stop working and won't start again until you enter your pin.
Does the tech utilize infrared at all? That would be really hard to reproduce.
The mom/son situation with Face ID is explained easily if they shared the passcode.
Face ID runs an adaptive averaging system so that it adapts to beards growing, new glasses, etc. If it fails, and the passcode is entered quickly, and the failure was still a match above 80% or so, it adds the failed face to an average.
so this doesn't affect husbands/wives sharing passcodes, but it has been the cause of multiple cases of kids being able to match, because kids faces are often close to one parent or other.
Given that this story was published in 2017, if it was a real, common problem, it'd be a much bigger scandal now. Instead, it's pretty clear Face ID is generally very secure, with some exceptions like sharing passcodes with relatives and identical twins.
That's why I only use the fingerprint scanner or the pin to unlock my OnePlus 6t. Face-scanning on Android is very superficial- pretty much any photograph of yourself can probably fool it.
Don't really care though as the on screen fingerprint reader of the 6t is cool as shit and its great to already have tech which will be the big feature of all of next year's models of flagship phones.
Don't really care though as the on screen fingerprint reader of the 6t is cool as shit and its great to already have tech which will be the big feature of all of next year's models of flagship phones.
Test was done in the UK, so you'd expect the Mate 20 Pro to be there at least. With this lineup the iPhone X was always going to come out on top.
Pixel 3 doesn't support any face unlock afaik.
I have. I feel it doesnt work in low light or dark rooms 75% of the time. I have gotten used to typing in the passcode at night. Finger print was just so much more convenient in my experience and always worked aside from having a wet or sweaty finger.
um... ok this is super weird. In fact it works better in no light situations than it does during like super bright daylight. because of the way the IR blaster works, the less ambient IR the better it works.
my buddy does have an issue.. funny you say this. he's basically blind as a bat.. so when he picks up his phone at night.. especially during the night, it never works. his assumption (and I agree) is that when the light hits his blind-as-a-bat eyes he squints hard both to reduce the harshness and to try and see the screen. We've concluded that it's recognizing his face just fine, but that it's failing on attention. When not in this situation (ok to exceptional lighting) Face ID works perfectly for him. In the dark.. it mostly doesn't work.
try turning off attention for Face ID and see if this helps it at night. he did this. it worked great. but he prefers to have it turned on so he just deals with entering the passcode after his eyes adjust.
largely untested. belief is that they can forcibly hold the phone in front of you, but can't compel you to look at it.
I did the initial set up of Face ID at night in a room with the lights off (though not 100% pitch black); the only trouble I've had related to lighting has been outside on an extremely bright day at a specific angle to the sun, once.
You may want to try the initial set up again, in a dark room, and see if it improves.
