[chromatin]

I am surprised the article does not mention it, but IMO a key reason to reintroduce touch sensor is to facilitate unlocking while wearing a mask, as it looks that this may not change either as a requirement or a social norm for quite some time.

[danfo]

100%, we just had two weeks of indoor mask wearing here, after a case of covid had been out in the wild. It really was inconvenient to have to punch in a passcode to pay for groceries. Mask wearing removes the seamless magic of face ID. You're on to it for sure.

I would like to have both. And proper 5G (on phones besides the US edition).