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I prefer touch ID over face ID as well.

Have you used the one on Duo? It’s in a weird position, essentially always gets in the way on what you’re doing.

Just feels like a compromise on least bad form factor that apple engineers said was feasible placed at the least bad spot that apple UX designers could come up with.

But that least-bad is still just not great, not “apple great”

I agree it is in a weird position indeed. I honestly think apple should make the move to in display fingerprint scanner now.

May I ask why.

In my case, I'd like to have both. Face ID works well with a motorcycle helmet, so I don't have to take off my gloves (I can roughly work the phone with the gloves on).

But if I'm in the mountains, wearing sunglasses and a winter coat that hugs my chin and a hat that goes down to my eyebrows, face id struggles. I sometimes don't wear gloves in this situation, so touch ID would be usable.

There are settings to make faceid work better. With those enabled I have no problem accessing it with sunglasses and a mask on.

Don't those settings reduce the security? If not, why aren't they enabled by default?

I should add that, in the general case, FaceID works well enough. I'd say it's better than touch id on my iphone 7.

Perhaps in some theoretical difference but I've never had anyone else get into my phone so... shrug. I trust Apple enough to beleive they would not have shipped (and continued to support) the feature if it was actually a reasonable attack vector.

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