> IIRC just looking at the confirmation if i wanted to buy something in the app store via face id was enough to confirm it.

Apple themselves are generally good about asking for explicit confirmation, but annoyingly in a way nobody else can replicate: They repurposed double pressing the power button, which is otherwise the Apple Pay secure attention sequence, for exactly one non-Apple-Pay action – buying something in the App Store (or iTunes store etc.)

Step 1 : take the phone off your pocket Step 2 : put it against the terminal while touching (not pressing) the home button. Step 3 : there is no step 3, you already paid because even if the phone wasn’t unlocked the NFC reader automatically unlocked it, opened your default card and validated the payment thanks to your finger being on the reader.

Compared to FaceID, no need to double press a button and to watch your screen waiting for the little animation to finish.

Don’t get me wrong, paying with FaceID totally works and it’s fast. But paying with TouchID wasn’t fast, it was instant and thoughtless.

All you typically need to do is lift your head up so FaceID can get a clear look... but when I'm sleepy, it's annoying.

Ideally, the phone would just have both... somehow... but this seems technically infeasible so I get it

Touch ID is far, far, far superior to Face ID.

I just want Touch ID to return on iPhones. Oh how I hate, hate, hate Face ID and its inability to read my face without my glasses when I get up in the morning.

The most annoying failure case for FaceID for me is using it in bed. I'm a side sleeper so half of my face is mushed into the pillow. I realize how lazy this sounds, but when I'm half asleep... that is exactly when I don't feel like tapping out a PIN or repositioning my head.

    A fingerprint reader inside the powerbutton 
    is the way to go IMO

I love the "reader inside the powerbutton" idea, but... phone cases....

My phone has the fingerprint reader in the power button, all cases just leave the powerbutton open.