Some people still really dont like Face ID, and many of us are still wearing masks.

The bad news is that we won’t see it for at least a few more years.

“Touch ID is more convenient for certain tasks.

Closeup on someone’s finger on a biometric fingerprint scanner.

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“On the other hand, Face ID has some benefits over Touch ID.

Ditto the fingerprint reader.

Touch ID has several advantages over Face ID, in addition to those already mentioned above.

Someone wearing a mask, trying to use facial recognition to unlock their phone.

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One is that it is harder to trigger accidentally.

Of course, this can also be a disadvantage in terms of convenience.

On the other hand, It’s possible that Touch ID will never come back to the iPhone.

Closeup on someone wearing glasses with a reflection of a biometric fingerprint reader in the lenses.

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After all, Apple already has a version of Touch ID on the iPad that uses the sleep/wake button.

Whichever arrives first will probably be fine for most people.