Re:iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new pri...
by mackrevinack on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:31AM
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but what do you if you don't want it to unlock? like if you were in work and someone send you a nsfw message that you don't want your coworkers to see, or maybe you are in a car with other people etc etc. ...there's no way to stop that right?
at least with a fingerprint reader you can choose to glance at the lockscreen messages first before unlocking
Re:iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new pri...
by culturestate on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:02AM
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You can disable the attention-aware features if you want to, even independent of Face ID itself, and it obviously respects DND settings.
I keep notification contents hidden while the phone is locked anyway, so I'd need to authenticate before it shows me the message in either case.
Re:iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new pri...
by asutekku on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:43AM
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Just looking at the screen does not unlock the device as you still need to swipe up to close the lockscreen. Before that, it does exactly as you describe, shows a glance on the lockscreen.
Re:iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new pri...
by culturestate on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:05AM
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To clarify, it does unlock the phone - i.e. you are authenticated as you after you look at it - but you're right that it doesn't open the full message unless you tap on the notification.
Counterpoint: with Face ID, if my phone is facing me I can interact with it just by looking in its direction.
Got a message while I'm at my desk? I look at it, it unlocks and shows me the notification. Cooking and a timer goes off? I look at it, it lowers the volume of the alarm.
Everything has trade-offs and different people use stuff in different ways, but I personally prefer Face ID to Touch ID.