It will use either the more - secure iris scanner or the quicker - but - less -
secure face scanner, depending on the lighting conditions you're in.
Not exact matches
Samsung, however, has said that its
face scanner is
secure.
While the IRIS
scanner is more
secure than
Face Recognition technology, it has its own backdrops.
Both of them inherit the iris
scanner from their bigger sibling, the Note 8 but on the S9 and S9 Plus, it can function in conjunction with the
face data from the selfie camera to offer a more
secure alternative to the fingerprint reader.
You can always use
face unlock (which Samsung calls more convenient than it is
secure, so no thanks) or the iris
scanner, which is deemed
secure enough for Samsung Pay.
Apple thus needed to replace it with a
face scanner to still allow for
secure access to the iPhone and other features.
The company ultimately nixed all fingerprint sensors in the iPhone X and touted the virtues of the
Face ID face scanner that Apple says is faster and more sec
Face ID
face scanner that Apple says is faster and more sec
face scanner that Apple says is faster and more
secure.
That said, Samsung says there's a 1 in 10 million chance of someone other than the device owner unlocking a Galaxy S9 using the iris
scanner, which would make it far more
secure than even
Face ID; Apple says there's a 1 in 1 million chance
Face ID can unlock for someone other than the device owner.
The iris
scanner is quick and as
secure as fingerprint methods, but it still requires holding the phone up awkwardly close to my
face and dramatically opening my eyes for it to work.
The fingerprint on the back scans fingers, the iris
scanner analyzes your eye, and it's almost as
secure as
Face ID, and the Face Recognition feature scans your face but can be cracked with pho
Face ID, and the
Face Recognition feature scans your face but can be cracked with pho
Face Recognition feature scans your
face but can be cracked with pho
face but can be cracked with photos.
If
Face ID is 20 times more
secure than the best smartphone fingerprint sensors out there, why are Synaptics and Qualcomm still investing so heavily in fingerprint
scanners?