It does actually matter, just in the opposite way. Since it uses IR it can get overwhelmed when there’s too much IR, which can happen in direct sunlight depending on the angle between the phone and sun.

All you need to do is punch in the passcode when it can’t unlock with you and it will get better over time. That’s literally all you need to do.

The biggest issue is people don’t know how to train it and actively work against its learning abilities. If you try to unlock and FaceID fails, DO NOT relock the phone and try it again in a more ideal position.

When FaceID has enough info that it thinks it’s you but not enough to authenticate you properly, if you authenticate with the passcode immediately after it fails it will add that data to the algorithm so it’s more likely to identify you in the future.

> Face ID will also update this data when it detects a close match but a passcode is subsequently entered to unlock the device.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108

You can even rapidly train for certain angles or whatever by doing a FaceID unlock -> fail -> unlock with passcode -> lock and repeat until it recognises you.

I pretty much never have FaceID fail to authenticate unless the sensor is covered by something.

> The new micro-processor that will ship in the 15 Pro models will not only manage those tasks, but will also be able to immediately sense capacitive button presses, holds, and even detect their own version of 3D Touch with the new volume up/down button, action (currently ringer switch) button, and power button, while the phone is dead or powered down.

If the new button is gonna act like the AW Ultra’s action button and I can map shortcuts to it I would be so happy.

>Also note that he said “nobody wants to watch video on a small iPod screen” at the iPod Photo launch event, only a year before releasing an iPod that could play video as the new selling point.

I mean, you're leaving out that they bumped the screen size between the 4th and 5th gen iPods.

>This hilarious because the mini still has a fair screen size of over 5 inches. I use a 4.7 inch iPhone SE for work and I watch content on it all the time.

Not really because you can't compare screen sizes like that when the screen ratio is different. The 12 Mini shows identical amount of content in terms of width as the old 4.7in phones (375px), it just has more height (which is somewhat negated by the safe zones).

The old Plus phones (5.5in) showed significantly more content on screen than the 5.4in Mini because of the ratio differences (12.9in^(2) vs 11.1in^(2)).