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What do you like about Touch ID? I think I'd switch platforms before going away from Face ID, it's so trivial to authenticate without even moving a muscle that I don't even think about it.

I have an older iPad with touch ID, and I simply turned it off because it felt like an anachronism in the experience.

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It doesn't fail as often as Face ID - you can touch the phone on table and don't have move your head to get it right (especially on the iPad). Its more secure because it requires an active action (touching) vs passive (looking).

> you can touch the phone on table and don't have move your head to get it right

This one. And like you said, it's much more reliable and faster than Face ID.

Fingerprint vs Face shines while (for instance) having a conversation and, because you have manners, want to maintain eye contact while pulling up a photo of that thing you are describing, or to make sure that's just a robocall and not your wife with an emergency.

It also shines first thing in the morning where your hair and eyes are so disheveled that even Siri didn't recognize you. Your thumb is probably still the same shape.

> want to maintain eye contact while pulling up a photo of that thing you are describing

Unless your eyes point in markedly different directions, I'm having a hard time imagining how you'd manage that anyway.

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