Sometimes I even unlock my phone in my pocket to sneak a look.
How do you do that with FaceID when the sensor's been removed?
If you have access to the screen but not to the sensor array, you can use a passcode. This is obviously very difficult to do when the phone’s in your pocket, so that’s a very small regression in usability there, but that seems like an extreme edge case.
>> extreme edge case
OK, maybe. Though I think TouchID has become so quick and natural that we forget it's even happening. For me it's almost automatic as I pull it from my pocket. Maybe FaceID will get to that point also.
But I think I'm safe in predicting, at least in the beginning, memes of people looking with zombie like stares at their phones trying to get them to unlock.
It's usually notifications for me and that's what I've been using my Apple Watch for a bit over a year now.
If it's not notifications, then it gets more complicated though looking at anything but notifications is pretty hard to sneak.