Jonathan Mosen devoted an episode of his Blind Side podcast to the iPhone X, and he devoted several minutes to the process of setting up face ID and developed some tetechniques to make the process easier. This is also extensively covered in his book, "IOS 11 Without the Eye".
Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: phillip tracy To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 3:35 AM Subject: Re: iPhone X and first impressions... Hey folks, this may work even better for you, that's one hell of an awkward angle. Try face ID with right hand only, left hand completely out of play unless you actually are left handed, and if you are, they have an attachment you can buy for maybe $15 or $20 that attaches to the bottom so you have better left handed control. I actually found that holding the device in my right hand, using my right thumb to press the side button gave me the best results. Phillip Tracy Sent from my iPhone On Dec 5, 2017, at 5:27 AM, phillip tracy <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Scott and all. I had an interesting and frustrating experience with FEDEX that made me miss launch day with iPhone X, even though it was only a mile away from me in a storage bin by 7 PM, I ended up having to go down and fight for it because they weren't going to deliver it until Monday and it was a launch day guarantee, I brought it home the afternoon after launch day, which was fine, it made me a happy guy. Here's what I think is happening here. The face ID appears to be on the right side of the phone direct opposite the rear camera area. Here's a little known fact, or trick, shall we say. After extensive research I found documentation requiring you to be able to fully open your eyes to get the most reliable experience with face ID, I am not able to fully open both eyes, left eye can not open at all, and right eye opens, sometimes, but rarely can I get any kind of consistency. For me, and for some of us, a moderate security compromise will need to be made. Before you may be forced into that though, switch the phone to your right hand, and unlock or double click the right side button with your left index or middle finger. Hold the phone still directly in front of your face about a foot. Make sure your phone is angled ever so slightly to where you are directly facing the right half of the phone. If this does not work, you will then need to take a nice little stroll over to settings, general, accessibility, face ID, and turn off the feature that makes face ID require to determine you're paying attention to the screen, it is the first of the two attention features in there. If you are fully able to open your eyes, you should not have to do this, but I have no choice. Remember friends, there is another dirty little secret you should know about that should still make you feel secure, it did for me. Take another happy little venture on over to settings, emergency SOS, enable the 5 click power button, or side button as we now call it, feature, do not, I stress again, do not overlook the emergency auto call. It is also in there and you should turn it off, that gives you the ability to disable face ID in a snap by rapidly clicking the right side button 5 times, a most excellent feature if your enemy is trying to force you to look at your phone to unlock it. The Apple folks thought of every possible security situation, one of the reasons I love these guys so, so much! Long live the future, this damn thing is a beautiful, beautiful piece, mine's a silver 256 and for me, its perfect. Perfect! Woot woot! It really is ok guys, it really is! Smaller than the plus, bigger than the standard, not too bulky, great battery life if you properly manage the settings, the perfect phone! I have wanted all these features since the 4S and finally, they're here! Phillip Tracy Sent from my iPhone On Dec 5, 2017, at 4:16 AM, Kliphton Miller <[email protected]> wrote: I haven’t used this method of getting to control center or notifications. I use the old way, it still works. Touch the status bar, swipe up with 3 fingers for controlcenter, swipe down with 3 fingers for notifications. Don’t know if this was by design, or accident, but either way it still works. On Dec 4, 2017, at 3:49 PM, Ed Worrell <[email protected]> wrote: Hello All, I have recently received my beautiful new iPhone X. I love the design of this phone. The glass front and metal sides are what I loved about my first iPhone, the iPhone 4. I have been waiting for years for Apple to go back to this design. I have heard a ton of chatter about why the iPhone is not the phone for everyone, and why the iPhone 8 is better, but I am extremely glad that I went with the iPhone X. This phone has made me fall in love with the iPhone interface and the sheer quality of Apple’s craftsmanship all over again. I am completely blind and I have to use VoiceOver. The new home buttonless interface was a trick for about the first 20 to 30 mins I had the device. After that the gestures to unlock the phone and even get to the Notification Center or the control center has become second nature. Closing apps…. To close apps you will need to find the lower most part of the touch screen (The Home Indicator), you will hear VoiceOver make a little popping sound, and you will also feel the haptic feedback pop once as well. You then start to drag your finger up the screen and you will hear and feel another pop. This second pop will indicate that you have performed the exit gesture properly, and you now should be back on your home screen. Opening the App Switcher…. To open the App Switcher, you will have to find the lower most part of the touch screen (Home Indicator). You will drag your finger up the screen just like exiting out of an app, you will hear and feel the same indicators as exiting an application, this time though you will keep draggingg past the exit app sound and haptic feedback. You will then keep dragging up to about the middle of the touch screen and you will hear and feel another indication letting you know that you are now opening the app switcher. Now you can use the typical gestures you normally use to close apps completely. Control Center and Notification Center… Getting in to the Control Center and Notification Center is much like exiting apps and getting into the App Switcher. Find the status bar at the top of the screen and You will do a one finger drag down the screen you will hear and feel the pop once your finger is on the status bar. Drag down and you will hear and feel the first pop to let you know you are passing the control center, stop dragging if you want to activate the control center, keep dragging until you hear and feel a pop to get to the Notification Center. Once you are in either the Control center or the Notification Center you can use your standard group of VoiceOver gestures. Over All I really love this phone and it has made me love using iOS again. The buttonless world is upon us and it isn’t all that scary. Come in the water is fine. 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