Speed ​​test between Face Id and Touch ID

Since Apple introduced Face ID as the only one to access the new iPhone X, many have been the users who have affirmed that new face detection technology will be much slower than Touch ID, and that will significantly modify the way we currently use our iPhone to make payments through Apple Pay. Obviously, it has always been spoken from ignorance, that no one take it the wrong way, having not had the opportunity to prove it.

Throughout this week, the Internet has been filled with reviews of the iPhone X, although most of them are not complete reviews due to the rush of the main YouTubers and media to not to be left out of the large number of visits and searches that have been carried out this week, week in which the iPhone will finally arrive officially for the rest of us.

El blog Tom's Guide have run a test to check which of the systems is faster and confirm if finally the new method to protect the iPhone is really much slower than the classic Touch ID. Many of us are users, we place our finger on the fingerprint sensor of our iPhone while we take it out of our pocket, so that we do not have to wait to have it in front of our eyes to be able to use it.

However, with Face ID, we can't use this little trick which saves us a few tenths of a second, since we must place it in front of us and wait for it to unlock, a process that takes very little time but does not allow us to advance the work as we take it out of the pocket, backpack, purse ...

According to tests by Mark Spoonauer, unlock the iPhone 7 Plus by pressing the button until the home screen appears takes 0,91 seconds. Unlock iPhone X by pressing the side button to turn on the screen using Face ID has a duration of 1,2 seconds, to which we have to add 0,4 seconds to slide the screen up and be able to access the home screen. If we want