iPhone 8 & iPhone X Thread

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An Arguing Couple In Flight Proves Face ID is Better Than Touch ID

here’s been a lot of discussion in recent weeks about whether Face ID is better and more secure than the feature it replaced, Touch ID. A bickering couple on a recent flight offers a real-world example where Face ID would have come out on top, thus eliminating a lot of problems.

According to The Guardian, a couple on a flight from Doha, Qatar to Bali, Indonesia got into a fight after the wife unlocked her sleeping husband’s smartphone with his fingerprint and discovered he was having an affair.

They explain:

The woman repeatedly hit her husband after learning of his infidelity and the captain was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Chennai, India, when the cabin crew was unable to restore order.

Since launching on the iPhone X earlier this month, Face ID has received mostly positive reviews. Still, some have criticised the authentication tool because it doesn’t seem to recognize the differences between identification twins.

The Qatar Airways situation proves Face ID is more secure that Touch ID, at least in a practical sense. If the husband had an iPhone X, the wife would have never been able to open it. Thus, the fight would have never occurred, and the flight would have landed in Bali as scheduled.

Face ID is likely to arrive on more devices in 2018, including next-generation iPads and iPhones.

https://appadvice.com/post/face-id-is-better-than-touch-id/756890
 
Check out your iPhone X internals with iFixit’s annual wallpapers

iFixit today shared some wallpapers designed for that edge-to-edge OLED display on iPhone X.

Each year following their ritual iPhone teardown analysis, repair wizards over at iFixit post their special wallpapers that reflect the internals of Apple’s latest smartphone.

Their latest iPhone X-themed wallpapers look better than on the phone’s bright, vivid edge-to-edge OLED panel, especially with the bezel-less front face.

It almost appears like the front of your phone is missing.

There are two different wallpapers: the standard internals and a special X-ray edition.

According to iFixit, the images will work well as both Still and Perspective wallpapers. After finding the image in iFixit’s blog post that you’d like to use as your wallpaper, tap on it for the full resolution, then use the Share menu to save it in the Camera roll on your iPhone X.

You can then set it as your wallpaper in Settings → Wallpaper → Choose a New Wallpaper.

To try them out for yourself, head over to the iFixit blog post or hit the links below:

iPhone X Internals
iPhone X Internals: X-Ray version

These wallpapers are made for iPhone X. Have an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus? Fret not, my friend, they’re currently working on those and will be available soon.

How do you like iFixit’s internals-exposing for iPhone X?

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/11/08/ifixit-iphone-x-wallpapers/

https://ifixit.org/blog/9419/iphone...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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Dreamb said:
It's lame to say the least.... but you dare say that lest people call you a troll!

"…When Face ID did fail for me, it was almost always a function of one of two things: I wasn’t looking at the phone when it made the attempt (I have attention detection toggled on) or it was at too steep an angle and couldn’t see my whole face. If it was pointed at me and I was looking, it opened. There were definitely a couple of failed tries, but no more than I’ve seen with a Touch ID finger placement not being good enough. A second swipe/try typically opened it."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewansp...eview-faceid-notch-camera-ios11/#43b47d685fd1

"Landscape mode on the iPhone X is generally pretty messy: the notch goes from being a somewhat forgettable element in the top status bar to a giant interruption on the side of the screen, and I haven’t seen any apps really solve for it yet. And the home bar at the bottom of the screen often sits over the top of content, forever reminding you that you can swipe to go home and exit the chaos of landscape mode forever."

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/31/16579748/apple-iphone-x-review
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Check this out.

1 -FaceID is slower than Samsung Iris Scanning
https://youtu.be/sI1YELmjh9g

2 -Both iPhone 8 Plus and X lose to Note8 in Speedtests and Battery Tests
https://youtu.be/uL99tRQR9W0
https://youtu.be/8kpD3XCp49o

https://youtu.be/7H9pAn4Hl50

The days of iOS and iPhone being seen as superior are long over.

I think Apple need to relook at iOS and where they are taking it as it has become rather cumbersome, they are almost a victim of their own success now.
 
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Dave said:
You’d have to be quite ignorant to try and compare the FaceID technology in the X to the crap that can even be opened with a photo in the Samsung...

Or maybe just such a fanatical fanboi you just don’t know better...
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Lol, dude we talking IRIS Scanning, not Face Unlock.
Huge difference.

Has anyone actually tricked the Iris Scanner? Genuinely asking.
 
cerebus said:
Oh yea very easily:

http://bgr.com/2017/05/23/galaxy-s8-iris-unlock-hacked-video/
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Lol, this seems like a lot of admin to me hey, from that link:
"Since the iris scanner uses infrared light, a photo of the phone’s owner is shot with a simple digital camera, using “night mode.” Then, the photo is cropped and sized so that the iris is roughly the size of a real-life human eye. After that, a contact lens is placed on the printed photo, and the Galaxy S8 instantly recognizes it as being a “real” human eye and unlocks the phone."
Very easily
 
Tsepz_011 said:
Lol, this seems like a lot of admin to me hey, from that link:
"Since the iris scanner uses infrared light, a photo of the phone’s owner is shot with a simple digital camera, using “night mode.” Then, the photo is cropped and sized so that the iris is roughly the size of a real-life human eye. After that, a contact lens is placed on the printed photo, and the Galaxy S8 instantly recognizes it as being a “real” human eye and unlocks the phone."
Very easily
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Actually yeah that really isn't difficult. Take photo -> print photo -> place contact lens on photo -> voila! It's far inferior to Apple's Face ID solution which creates a 3D model of your face.
 
cerebus said:
Actually yeah that really isn't difficult. Take photo -> print photo -> place contact lens on photo -> voila! It's far inferior to Apple's Face ID solution which creates a 3D model of your face.
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It would be easier to put the person under duress and tell them to unlock the phone, in which case any thing can be bypassed.

That is ridiculous man

Even the guys who did it say it's difficult:
"In a statement, the company said the attack requires “a rare combination of circumstances” to pull off. “It would require the unlikely situation of having possession of the high-resolution image of the smartphone owner’s iris with IR camera, a contact lens and possession of their smartphone at the same time. We have conducted internal demonstrations under the same circumstances, however, [and] it was extremely difficult to replicate such a result.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...ris-scanner-german-hackers-biometric-security

"This article was amended 24 May to clarify that CCC did not claim a social media picture of an iris could be used to unlock a phone, and to add Samsung’s statement."

Unless you know more than them?
 
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Tsepz_011 said:
I guess these things were only relevant when the iPhone did them faster, when the tables turn, things change.

Noted :)

Cheers!
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Tsepz_011 said:
I guess these things were only relevant when the iPhone did them faster, when the tables turn, things change.

Noted :)

Cheers!
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Just let them be, no one is going to convince anyone to change their mind in this thread. It's like the VW vs Ford boys.

It's just a phone and next year's model will be even better than today's one.
 
whatwhat said:
Just let them be, no one is going to convince anyone to change their mind in this thread. It's like the VW vs Ford boys.

It's just a phone and next year's model will be even better than today's one.
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Haha true!

I just find it interesting how things have changed.

I thought it was just my iPad Air 2 getting old but I've been noticing little things not being as good or as intuitive as they used to be in iOS, so seeing all these Speedtests with the lastest and greatest iPhones explained a lot.

Anyways, iPhone X lands here 24 November:
https://stuff.co.za/apples-iphone-x-dated-south-africa/

All the best to those who are getting it, I am curious to see how fast it will sellout at the major networks.
 
All the best to those who are getting it, I am curious to see how fast it will sellout at the major networks.
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Only iStore and MTN has announced it so far, and it's been 2 days since the official announcement. What the **** is the reason for holding any info back? Our major networks - pushing the boundaries of technology every day. :rolleyes:
 
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