I wear face masks more often than I wear gloves and I sure hope facial recognition doesn't just throw away half my face. Combine that with the fact that in certain Asian countries it was normal long before COVID to wear masks when you're not well and I'm not sure which one makes more business sense.
With under-screen fingerprint scanners, or the power button fingerprint scanners on some phones, that "two step process" turns back into a single step. My unlock process is to put my finger on my screen (where the fingerprint scanner is) and pull it out of my pocket. It's honestly no different from the swipe up that you need to do on iOS. Because the scanner is on the front, it also works pretty flawlessly when it's attached to a mount of some sort.
Wet hands are one place where improvements can be made, but modern fingeprint scanners are doing quite well in that space as well.
I've used Google's facial recognition system for ages before I had a phone with a fingeprint scanner and it was always pretty snappy for me, but I didn't set it up with this phone and I haven't missed it so far.
Most analyzing of face ID feature happened when it first came out before covid, so a lot of security claims are probably not fully accurate anymore (or at least are deserving of a re-evaluation)
I have little basis for this assumption, but I imagine apple would compromise a bit of security to keep the feature people payed for working and just chop off half the face.
Now what you really want to be doing is printing QR code masks to make up for the missing half of the face! /s
The problem is companies acting like masks are an aberration: if you work in construction, or around your house, then there's plenty of moments you're not wearing gloves but can't or shouldn't take a respirator off (or it's far more involved then taking off a glove).
With under-screen fingerprint scanners, or the power button fingerprint scanners on some phones, that "two step process" turns back into a single step. My unlock process is to put my finger on my screen (where the fingerprint scanner is) and pull it out of my pocket. It's honestly no different from the swipe up that you need to do on iOS. Because the scanner is on the front, it also works pretty flawlessly when it's attached to a mount of some sort.
Wet hands are one place where improvements can be made, but modern fingeprint scanners are doing quite well in that space as well.
I've used Google's facial recognition system for ages before I had a phone with a fingeprint scanner and it was always pretty snappy for me, but I didn't set it up with this phone and I haven't missed it so far.