Comment by lukeholder | Hacker News Reader

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Disagree with a lot of his thoughts.

I live in Perth Western Australia, arguably more sun than the Gold Coast. Wear fully polarised sunglasses also, and it unlocks flawlessly outside.

Most of his attempts in the sun worked.

Also, he notes

> Oh - incidentally, I'm conscious that the final attempt I made in the car which failed is likely due to too many biometric fails and it wouldn't have passed under even ideal scenarios. That doesn't change all the failed attempts leading up to that, but it deserved a mention anyway.

Also mentions needing to look at the 'thing' to unlock. He could turn off the attention unlock feature to get unlock scanning without needing to look at the iPhone.

Lastly, he keeps swiping up from the middle of the phone which only brings up notifications, to get into the home screen you need to swipe from the bottom.

And people who live in colder areas where there are snow and have gloves are really glad about the face id because then you dont need to take off your gloves if you need to call someone.

Gloves that work with touchscreens have been around for years.

With a fingerprint passthrough? :)

Probably meant you could enter a pass code without taking your gloves off.

Having owned quite a few pairs of these, the quality and features vary widely (including, importantly, insulation against the cold and moisture -- not to mention how well the touchscreen compatibility actually works).

Yes but they are so thin, in my country it can get really cold.

I don't think they are all thin, nor should they have to be - the touchscreen doesn't have to detect your skin, the gloves have a material that is detectable by the screen.

Or smartphones with screens sensitive enough for use with gloves

I hope Apple adds an option to swipe up from the middle at some point to unlock the phone, having to reach all the way down to the bottom is not comfortable with one hand.

When I'm laying in bed I can't do it one handed without tilting the phone in a direction that points the camera away from me. That's my only complaint about TouchID though.

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