[augstein]

Amazing how good eye tracking works on my phone (15 Pro).

Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to press buttons via blinking, only by "dwelling" on an item for a few seconds, which makes using my phone feel quite hectic and prone to to inadvertent inputs to me.

[nomel]

I think interfering with a biological necessity that is there to maintain eye health probably isn't a good candidate for HID input. I suspect the user would end up with very dry eyes, as they subconsciously/consciously refrained from blinking, even if it were only long blinks (which I do often if my eyes feel the need).

Now I could see a wink working! Left wink, right wink. And, with a wink, you don't lose tracking during the action (just half the signal).

[azinman2]

This is built for accessibility for people with extreme impairments. Think quadriplegic, ALS, nervous system disorders, etc.

[FollowingTheDao]

Talk about eye health...are there any studies of long term IR exposure on the eyes? (I am assuming they are using IR sensors.)

[gruez]

It's unclear why an iPhone would be worse than a 60W light bulb, or the sun, both of which emit so much IR you can feel the heat with your hands.

[willio58]

Why not double blink? Or a flare of the nose?

[somedude895]

Interesting, it's practically useless on my iPhone 13 (non-Pro) due to being extremely jittery and inaccurate

[helsinki]

Mine doesn’t work at all on a 16 Pro. Maybe due to astigmatism?

[yzydserd]

It’s terrible for me too. Mild astigmatism and amblyopia. It’s now got me wondering how well I’d get along with Vision Pro.

[helsinki]

I also have the Vision Pro and it’s not perfect for me. It definitely struggles with precision. Actually, now that you mention it, it felt very similar to my poor experience with the 16 pro.

[cush]

It's really bad on my iPhone 13. Surprised they released it here. After one or two clicks it needs to recalibrate. There doesn't seem to be a way to not click on things either. No way to change apps. After the third recalibration, I selected "yes" to "would you like to disable eye tracking", and while eye tracking was disabled, I also lost access to swiping down on the control center or swiping up on the app switcher. Had to restart the phone to get things back to a usable place.

[sen]

Just tried it on a 16 Pro Max and it’s insanely good. I really expected it to be a lot more random and buggy, but had no problem navigating the phone and “clicking” buttons etc.

This is basically the sort of “future tech” I imagined as a kid. We can now talk to computers and they talk back (ChatGPT, Apple Intelligence, etc) and flawless navigate our portable super computers just by looking at them.

[bdavbdav]

Hectic is a good way to describe it. I was frantically trying to turn it off when it seemed to just start clicking on things at random.