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Title: Watch media fail to cover Face ID demo glitch — so embarrassing! Post by: HCK on September 14, 2017, 04:05:18 pm Watch media fail to cover Face ID demo glitch — so embarrassing!
Face ID didn't fail at Apple's iPhone X event, device setup did — and then so did the media. During Apple's iPhone X Event, senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi had to switch to a backup iPhone X after discovering that Face ID, the feature he was about to demonstrate, had been disabled. Just as with Touch ID (Apple's existing fingerprint identity sensor), Face ID requires a device passcode following a reboot, a period of inactivity, or successive authentication attempts that don't match what's registered on the device. The device even showed a nearly-identical message Touch ID shows after successive fingerprint mismatches; in this case, it was "Enter Passcode: Your passcode is required to enable Face ID". It was, plain and simple, a setup failure. This is also why Apple has backup devices available for every demo. No doubt it was an unpleasant moment for Federighi — though he handled it in his usual, jovial manner on stage — and for ... Source: Watch media fail to cover Face ID demo glitch — so embarrassing! (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/TcQebIzM5U4/watch-media-fail-try-and-cover-face-id-demo) |