Touch ID on Apple

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The shine is already wearing off of Apple?s new Touch ID technology for some iPhone 5s owners. Apple unveiled its latest flagship iPhone this past September and along with it, a new embedded fingerprint scanner brought about by the company?s 2012 acquisition of mobile security firm AuthenTec for $356 million. Dubbed Touch ID, the new technology places a sapphire glass-covered fingerprint scanner in the home button of Apple?s iPhone 5s and allows users to unlock the device or authenticate App Store purchases with just the touch of a finger. The new tech is among a few main selling points for the iPhone 5s, but a new report suggests some users are already having trouble with it after less than three months on the market.

?Dr. Drang,? who is described by 5by5 as ?a consulting engineer well known amongst nerds on the Internet,? recently wrote on his blog And now it?s all this that he?s having some issues with Touch ID on his iPhone.

?I?ve been using Touch ID since I got an iPhone 5s in mid-October,? Drang wrote. ?Generally speaking, I like it, and I find it faster than the old swipe-and-passcode method, but I?ve felt compelled to reteach it my fingerprints twice already. I know this sounds impossible, but its recognition of my prints seems to decay with time.?

The good doctor continued, ?I rescanned my fingers this weekend, and Touch ID has been amazingly fast and accurate since then.

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[primexx]

This wasn't a problem with AuthenTec's readers

[Brian M. Veteran]

My 5s has been fine :s

[Belazor]

No issues here either, and I've use it dozens of times a day since it was first released.

[Quillz]

They're sensing it wrong.

[FloatingFatMan]

They're sensing it wrong.

 

No no no no no no...

 

They're fingering it wrong! :p

[Mr.XXIV]

No no no no no no...

 

They'e fingering it wrong! :p

 

Oh god.

[sundayx Veteran]

Some say adding the same finger multiple times (right thumb for example) helps with readability.

[Argi]

Mine fails like 33% of the time.  Then I have to enter my code.  Restarting the phone fixes it so it seems like a software issue.

[Torolol]

the touch future Microsoft want a dive into

[Growled Member]

Mine fails like 33% of the time.  Then I have to enter my code.  Restarting the phone fixes it so it seems like a software issue.

 

They'll probably be an update in time that will fix that.

[+Warwagon MVC]

You're fingering it wrong!

[Growled Member]

You're fingering it wrong!

 

Can you show us the right way to finger it? :P

[+Warwagon MVC]

Can you show us the right way to finger it? :p

 

First you have to spit on your iPhone, make sure it's nice and wet. Then while watching the phones reaction, gently press your finger onto the base of the phone.

[Growled Member]

First you have to spit on your iPhone, make sure it's nice and wet. Then while watching the phones reaction, gently press your finger onto the base of the phone.

 

What kind of reaction should I look for? :D

[primexx]

the touch future Microsoft want a dive into

 

what? both touchscreens and finegprint readers were done long before Apple did it.

[ATLien_0]

Any chance the sensitivity could be changing due to it getting colder out. I know this sounds crazy, but I've noticed before with touch screens that the sensors don't work as well when its cold or the finger is cold.