{"id":10819,"date":"2018-06-20T10:50:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T10:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=10819"},"modified":"2018-06-20T10:50:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T10:50:28","slug":"on-face-unlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/10819-on-face-unlock.html","title":{"rendered":"On Face Unlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Face unlock is a common feature on premium (and even mid-range) devices today. Notable examples are Apple with the iPhone X, Microsoft with Windows Hello (when fully implemented with a depth-sensing camera like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/architecture-and-technology\/realsense-overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">Intel RealSense<\/a>), and on Android phones including Samsung Galaxy S9, OnePlus 6, Huawei P20 and Honor View 10 and Honor 10 AI<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been trying the Honor 10 AI and naturally enabled the Face Unlock, passing warnings that it was less secure than a PIN or password. Why less secure? It is not stated, but a typical issue is being able to log in with a picture of the normal user (this would not work with Microsoft Hello).<\/p>\n<p>Security is an issue, but I was also interested in how desirable this is as a feature. So far I am not convinced. Technically it works reasonably well. It is not 100% effective, especially in either bright sunlight or dim light, but most of the time it successfully unlocks the Honor phone. It is all the more impressive because I sometimes wear glasses, and it works whether or not I am wearing them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"189\" height=\"244\" title=\"image\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image_thumb-13.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed face unlock at first, since it removes a bit of friction in day to day use. Then I came across annoyances. Sometimes the face recognition takes longer than a PIN, if the lighting conditions are not optimal, and occasionally it fails. It has introduced a touch of uncertainty to the unlock process, whereas the PIN is fully reliable and controllable. I tried the optional \u201cwake on pick up\u201d feature and again had a mixed experience; sometimes the the phone would light up and unlock when I did not need it.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion? It is something I can easily live without so a low priority when choosing a new phone. Whereas fingerprint unlock, now that the technology has matured to the point of high reliability, is something I still enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Face unlock is a common feature on premium (and even mid-range) devices today. Notable examples are Apple with the iPhone X, Microsoft with Windows Hello (when fully implemented with a depth-sensing camera like Intel RealSense), and on Android phones including Samsung Galaxy S9, OnePlus 6, Huawei P20 and Honor View 10 and Honor 10 AI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/10819-on-face-unlock.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Face Unlock<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1142,1144,55,56],"tags":[158,464,599,881],"class_list":["post-10819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-gadgets","category-honor","category-microsoft","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-huawei","tag-mobile","tag-surface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10820,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions\/10820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}