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by SomeHacker44 3183 days ago
This is woefully insufficient for a feature I have been begging for forever...

I would prefer it to be a double-tap on the power button, or at the very absolute worse, a triple tap. Two buttons simultaneously five times? Impossible to do under any sort of external pressure/duress.
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aeontech 3183 days ago
Two buttons press and hold on iPhone X.

Power button 5x on any other phone.

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mikewhy 3183 days ago
Not sure where you got two buttons from. It's only the power button.
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GeekyBear 3183 days ago
On this year's hardware, they have added a new option to temporarily disable biometrics.

You press either one of the volume buttons on one side of the phone while also pressing the sleep/wake button on the opposite side.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-disable-face-id-o...

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mikewhy 3183 days ago
Didn't realise the X model did it differently than all others. Weird.
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GeekyBear 3183 days ago
It's also available on the iPhone 8 models.

If history is a guide, this will be a new normal that will carry through to future hardware as well.

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