I haven't had a TouchID phone since 2018 and I still miss it. It never made me wait.

Finding the button with my thumb in my pocket was just impulse. Phone unlocked by the time I'm looking at it.

I have to start looking at my phone, watch the screen wake up, FaceID takes a minimum of a half-second? A full second? Feels like an eternity. Longer if I have a mask on but that's only recent, it used to not work with a mask at all.

I think that's my problem. There's nothing I can do to make it faster, I just have to wait for my face to be at the right angle so it can scan me. With my fingerprint, I was fully in control of how fast the unlocking process would be.

And, yes, all of these cases happened in the past month. I miss the TouchID. It was simple and I can't recall it ever failing me.

Gloves aren't necessary here :) I live in the (allegedly) Brazil's coldest state capital, Curitiba, and you can get through winter here without them.

Gloves are used in more scenarios than just cold weather, motorcycle gloves for one example.

Gloves are not the big problem, my experience is that FaceID is useless when motorcycling because of the helmet.

We are talking about phones without FaceID here. This article and thread are referencing the iPhone SE.

> my experience is that FaceID is useless when motorcycling because of the helmet.

Seems to work fine for me when opening the visor. Do you mean with it closed or open it’s not working for you?

Touch ID was markedly superior in contexts like this, in addition to being easier to activate.