Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPhone XS Face ID vs Samsung Note 9 Intelligent Scan.”.
All right guys welcome to what I would say is a pretty comprehensive comparison between the face scanner on the iPhone 10s and the one on the Galaxy Note nine worth bearing in mind is that the note nine has a fingerprint scanner which the 10s doesn’t so, of Course it’s a massive advantage just to have an alternative option, but in this article we are just looking at the face scanners. Okay, so, even though both phones are trying to achieve the same thing, they go about it in very different ways. The note nines intelligent scan uses both iris and face scanners, but I do need to address a bit of a misconception instead of using both. At the same time, the photo actually uses face scanning first, as that’s the fastest option, and only if this fails say in low-light will avenge at your irises. If that fails too, then the phone will use a combination of the face and then iris scanner to try and piece together what it can.
The iris scanner is slower, but it does work when it’s dark in comparison. You might know that the iPhone 10 in this lovely little notch on top has a dot projector, which fires 30,000 dots onto your face, which are then picked up by the infrared camera and sent to the chip in the phone for processing with the iPhone 10s. Compared to last year’s 10, the chip has been quite significantly upgraded and so that processing time should be quicker. Ok, so let’s do this setup is very simple on both, although you are seeing yourself in the front-facing camera on the iPhone. This is actually the only time when using face ID where the camera will be used once setup is all about infrared. Then we’ve got the note 9, where in one go the phone scales, both your face and irises, you don’t even have to use a separate scan for each so after setting them up.
The first thing I wanted to look at is something that, as far as I’m aware, hasn’t been covered by anyone else, field of vision, which means from what angle can each phone detect your face? So I started with the note 9 me sitting at the end of the table and kept trying to unlock getting closer each time until it worked and then measured the angle that it worked from doing the same on the 10s and it managed to detect my face From quite a bit further out – and I tried multiple times with the same result, so basically this means you have to be less precise when pointing the phone at your face to unlock it. When we talk about security, this brings us back to that Miskin section. We talked about earlier 95 % of the time when you’re, unlocking your phone using intelligent scanner, you’re, really just using a face scanner, which is using the front camera to snap. A 2d image of the face and, as I pointed out as soon as the right face is detected, the phone doesn’t use iris scanning. This compares to the iPhones system, which uses the dots, if wise onto your face, to detect contours in three dimensions and unlock.
Accordingly. Most would say that, because of SDI Fantana is more difficult to fool, but we’ll get a test anyway. But just to give you an example of this security difference face ID can be used to make payments, whereas the face scanner on intelligent scan can’t for something as vital as payments.
Something has to use the iris scanning only or the fingerprint scanner to authenticate payments. As the face scanner is not considered secure enough, but in my own tests what I did was pull up a clear image of myself and put it on the laptop screen, while using both phones to see if either was fooled and to turn off the require attention. Feature on the iPhone first, which is kind of like an additional security measure that makes sure your eyes are looking at your phone before unlocking.
Thankfully, neither firm is fooled. They could clearly tell this was a photo and not my actual face. I tried again this time using a selfie taken on the note 9, as this would be the exact picture that the phone would be looking for when scanning for a face, and even then the note 9 wouldn’t unlock when looking at a screen.
So the takeaway of that is that, while the note 9 may not be as secure as the iPhone 10 s, it’s secure enough for most people and most situations moving to the dark and the front. Camera won’t work. Well so the note 9 switches to iris scanning only there is a slight hit to the speed because of it, but it still works fine. Having said that, the telus didn’t even seem to be affected by this lighting and worked exactly as it was working in a well-lit area. Things got a little dicey. Oh, when I went into a super low light condition, I created a scene where it was more or less pitch-black and the note line was more affected by it.
Even though I’d set the screen brightness to minimum it kept trying to dial it up to better light. My face, but even then success rates dropped from close to 100 %, unlocking to more like 30. But, to be honest, the iPhone didn’t seem to be affected at all. It was detecting the face and unlock the phone pretty much as well as it does in slightly brighter conditions, as well as broad daylight.
So all those times when you’re lying in bed at night and you’re trying to unlock your phone, the face scanner is probably not the way to go on a note, but at the same time you’ve got that fingerprint scanner which you don’t on the iPhone. Okay. What about obstructions? I know people say that this isn’t what these scanners were intended for, but life isn’t perfect. Sometimes you want to wear a cap.
Sometimes you end up wearing sunglasses. Every now and again, your beard grows out a little more than you’d like do these face scanners still work starting off with the cap. The iPhone works, fine and the note 9 has no problem either the unlock works, and it’s just as fast as before sunglasses. As long as you turn off that option, we talked about for requiring attention work with the iPhone, even if they are obscuring, I did 20 % of my face. The Samsung, though, didn’t quite cut it, as this large portion of my face was covered. The camera couldn’t be scan and my irises are being blocked by the glasses, so iris scanning wouldn’t work either.
So for some people, this isn’t gon na matter at all. If you don’t wear glasses, not an issue, but if you do definitely worth considering and now for the biggest question, what about the speed and there’s a bit of a misconception here, because the iPhone 10 and 10s have a two-step unlocking system even after face ID, you Still need to swipe up to get onto the home screen, but Apple does this on purpose. So you can check your notifications while on the lockscreen, and it turns out which one is faster, it depends on how you define unlocking consistently. The iPhone 10s will recognize the face faster than Samsung I’d, say, wins 95 % of the time, but because of that extra swipe, you have to do. If all you want to do is get to the home screen, then Samsung will be faster almost every time. I feel, like Apple, could have quite easily solved this problem by just adding a setting that lets.
You go straight to the home screen when a face is detected, but they haven’t. Having said that, the face ID does result in a few other interesting features. Attention aware mode will constantly check to see if you are looking at a screen and accordingly dim the display or lower the volume of alerts. You’Ve also got alternative appearance which, if there’s someone who drastically changes their look from time to time, can still let you use face unlocking.
So that’s a. Let me know what you think and which phone you think, does it better anyway, thanks for watching and I’ll catch, you guys in the next one .