Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 (@scuttlebutt)

Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

7mo

How old is your mobile phone?

Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social

7mo

@scuttlebutt Vintage fall 2016 iPhone 7+ for me, so it's just over nine years old (I got it at release, more or less). I theoretically plan to replace it basically now, since it's stuck on iOS 15, but I keep not getting around to it, party because the whole replacement will be a giant pain.

(I like the fingerprint sensor more than I expect to like face unlock, for example.)

Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

7mo

@cks You're already looking at the screen when unlocking though, unless you do blind unlocks with it in your pocket for some sneaky recording reason.

Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social

7mo

@scuttlebutt My face is pretty variable in common usage. Mask vs no mask, multiple (sun)glasses variations (and sometimes no glasses), bicycle helmet versus no bicycle helmet. I suspect I'll have a lot of uncertainty. Fingerprint unlock is almost 100% predictable without being so broad that, for example, someone with my broad face shape in dark sunglasses plus a mask can unlock it. (Because some of the time I will be unlocking in that situation.)

Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

7mo

@cks Oh, I can see that.

Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social

7mo

@scuttlebutt The other thing about fingerprint vs face unlock is that, as I was reminded today, I spend a certain amount of time carrying my phone around face-up and looking at it with it deliberately not unlocked. Fingerprint unlock is very hard to accidentally trigger (and then accidentally wind up touch-interacting with stuff on the screen). I suspect face unlock is more trigger happy, but maybe I'm wrong.

Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

7mo

@cks You can do that (locked, looking at whatever is on the screen) without it auto unlocking by face. I have to swipe up from the bottom to have the Face ID do its thing. Swipe one way for camera while still locked, or swipe the other way for a dashboard thing.

Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

7mo

@cks Swipe to camera does NOT enable people to go from camera app to looking at your photos, unless you are looking at the camera right when doing the swipe to camera screen.