I want iPhones to have screens that adjust for bad eyesight. My beloved iPhone became useless in the last years until I can get out my reading glasses. All those awesome smartphone features suddenly worth shit.
it will happen to YOU as well! (dramatic music)
Kind of hard to fix that, since it’s a fundamental feature of optics (light vergence increases the closer you get to an object). The only thing a phone can do is increase the font size lol. Otherwise you have to wear glasses of some sort, or contacts.
I remember a university project from about 10 years ago, that managed to do exactly that, optical problems notwithstanding. I always hoped it would find its way into the marketplace. But it hasn‘t happened yet. It seems they needed to add an extra layer on top that diminished the screen quality quite a bit. If I could only find that link.
Apple could let you type in your eye prescription and make the screen automatically adjust when it detects you’re not wearing glasses.
It would have to be a physical plate or film in the phone. I doubt they would add moving parts.
Couldn’t they simply blur the screen in a way that counters the user’s blurred vision?
Optics doesn’t work like that :D
Settings > Accessability.
How about improving keyboard autocorrection, notifications, allowing better third party keyboards, more freedom to game developers, fixing some bugs, etc.
This nonsense about privacy is getting tiresome
I’m down for fusing Siri with ChatGPT, but that’s a pie in the sky pipe dream.
I forgot which phone company did it, I remember them dropping the feature after a generation, but one of their phones was advertised to lock the screen if it detects a second pair of eyes were peeping into the screen, like someone behind you looking over your shoulders.
I accidentally ordered privacy screen protectors once from amazon…very infuriating not being able to see the screen from an angle…but if it was something that iOS was able to implement only during passcode entry that’d be cool.
very infuriating not being able to see the screen from an angle
Isn’t that the whole point?
accidentally ordered
for other people yeah, but i guess we don’t realize how much we use our phone without directly looking at it, i imagine sometimes while i’m laying down and quickly checking it, it might be at an angle, or if i have it flat on the desk and i’m just trying to read the screen, it would probably be at too much of angle to see it
Why would you wanna see the screen from an angle ? Don’t we use it facing us straight up ?
I use my screen in all possible positions when I do things and/ or when I wanna show something to someone else.
Privacy screen protectors ruin the colours and viewing angles.
It’s like having a TN panel on your phone. Reminds me of my old LG phone from 2011.
That’s the whole point of a privacy screen isn’t it ? So that you and only you can view the display
I’ve used privacy screen protectors for years now and none of this is true.
Cheap ones can have these issues but you’d have to get a pretty cheap one to have any of those problems.
I just want MACs to have Face ID
Why? Touching a key too hard?
Yes - Mac User with a bag of Doritos
From what I’ve heard the face ID sensors don’t work from the distance the average person sits at from their laptop.
and apparently the faceID module is too thick to fit on a macbook display
I don’t know if either of those are true, I remember reading them on reddit on a discussion post about this exact issue.
I want Touch ID back on my iPhone.
It still baffles me that the iMac and MacBooks with the notch don’t have it.
And I just want iPhones to have Touch ID (they could do it in the power button).
But for Face ID on Macs, I think that’s because the display sides of those aren’t thick enough for Face ID.
I think that’s because the display sides of those aren’t thick enough for Face ID.
Yes it is. This is 100% the reason. There’s nowhere near enough surface area to get a unique finger print.
There are plenty of Android phones with very thin fingerprint scanners on the side… They work well.
Some iPads already use TouchID on the power buttons so it’s definitely something Apple can implement on the phones if they chose to.
Maybe they could put it in the keyboard
Face ID on Macs faces multiple problems:
- Hardware: The components required are thicker than the display side of a MacBook. Someone commented about the Studio Display (and likewise the iMac), but that’s enabling Face ID just for a fraction of Macs (and could potentially limit future design).
- Requires additional physical input anyway: On the iPhone, you swipe up to unlock. The Mac could just accept the spacebar as input, but it’s still a secondary action meaning Face ID is “press here instead of touch there”. It also means that for Apple Pay or anything else requiring confirmation, you’d need someway of confirming (click here instead of touch there).
- It’s not solving the problem that the iPone had: Face ID on the iPhone enabled the iPhone to get rid of the Home button which greatly increased the amount of the display area. It wouldn’t do that on the Mac. Really the only thing it’s doing is allowing some other physical action (press the space bar or click a confirmation button) instead of touching the power button.
Opening the lid on MacBooks should be the trigger for Face ID.
That wouldn’t help with people who already have the lid open nor would it solve the issue of confirmation for Apple Pay and others. It also wouldn’t be a solution for the mini, Studio, PowerMac or iMac.
Further, it doesn’t solve the hardware issue of the component being too thick for the lid nor does it solve the main issue for why the iPhone went with Face ID.
My Windows Notebook has Windows Hello with an infrared cam. I will never buy a computer without face unlock.
Windows Hello is quite insecure: https://blackwinghq.com/blog/posts/a-touch-of-pwn-part-i/
Isn’t the lack of security due to poor security implementation rather than low-quality sensors? I don’t see why Apple can’t just use those same sensors but with their own security system.
*wink* to confirm purchase
Phones with power button fingerprint, short-focus, ultra thin optical or Supersonic under screen detectors existed for a long time. Or they could punch a hole on the display and call it dynamic home.
My studio will unlock with my watch. I’ll sit down and it’s unlocked almost instantly.
Works great until you have a work machine that you can’t and shouldn’t associate with your personal AppleID.
In order to use Watch unlock, the targent Mac and the Watch have to be associates with the same Apple ID, and you should absolutely not be associating your employer owned device with your personal Apple ID.
Amazes me Apple hasn’t carved out a fix for this.
Sounds like a great way to allow people to unlock your Mac while you’re asleep
Why would a media access control address need Facebook ID?
I would love that. I have a privacy screen. This screen is so large I don’t need the person next to me online shopping while I wait at the doctors office
Wait, I dont know you can reset Apple ID password just by knowing device’s passcode. how?
yeah I recently did this, but I think it only works on phones (with an attached phone number) as the last time i did this on my iPad, it had to go through apple’s verification process. I think they send you a message and you have to enter your phone’s PIN. It might involve the associated e-mail as well but I don’t remember.
I bought a 14 Pro and fully regret the privacy screen protector I have. It kills a significant amount of the brightness of my screen. Everyone I show my phone to asks if I can increase the brightness, and I say it’s on the maximum. Yes, now I can look at my bank transactions, watch YouTube and TikTok videos in peace. But that’s not really worth the cost of not being able to benefit from what was the best iPhone screen on the market a few months ago.
They should focus on fixing the egregious 80ms response time on MacBook screens before thinking about a ‘privacy screen’. Average response time for the industry is around 20ms, while some are under 1ms. Apple is leading the pack for some of the worst response rates in laptops.