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Apple Walks Back iPhone 13 Display Repair Restriction That Disabled Face ID
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I imagine the fix will be implemented very soon. I bet they already had the code written to reverse this but were hoping the discovery and backlash would be minimal enough not to have to backdown.
In most scenarios, I’m not sure I want someone making $16 an hour to repair my $1,200 phone. Just to save $200.
Maybe it was sarcasm.
maybe it was a greedy move or maybe Apple just failed to think it though. Honesty which one is worse?
To answer your question, you’re supposed to tip at least $1. So if the valet parks 30 cars in an hour, they make $30 / hour + wages.
I’ve worked as a valet. It’s a demanding job that pays pretty well.
I also wasn’t a fan of parking and retrieving brand new cars, for this very reason.
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As I should? Lol. You‘ll fit into the California mentality just fine.
You trust your dozens of thousands of dollars car to a kid for $1. Got it.
Good. One small victory. But let’s not applaud much — it is so absurd for a company that repeatedly toots its own horn on its net-zero efforts and claims to bend over backward in its efforts to reduce environmental impact and waste, to then go through these unnecessary lengths to lock down its hardware in this way. The number one thing that gets broken and needs replaced on a smartphone is its screen. It’s unconscionable that a company with these self-professed “green” values would force consumers to choose between a grossly overpriced Apple Authorized repair, or tossing out the device and adding to the giant e-waste problem, all while screwing over the small business folks. Get it together, Apple: embrace the Right To Repair movement; lay off the greed, paranoia, and hypocrisy.
Glad this is being walked back. As a family IT guy, I tend to fix, replace batteries, and do other hardware repairs on many older Apple devices.
Keeping these things working and out of landfills is great.
iPhone 6 pictured that I recently replaced the battery and rear camera inside. Great lil buddy to have with on trips and get to enjoy a headphone jack.
Keeping these things working and out of landfills is great.
iPhone 6 pictured that I recently replaced the battery and rear camera inside. Great lil buddy to have with on trips and get to enjoy a headphone jack.
I would never let those hole in the wall repair shops touch my phone. I'll get it repaired at Apple.
This article really should have been titled “Apple hobbles major security feature of iPhone 13”
Pairing the forward facing camera assembly to the phone prevents the module from being swapped out with another unit that can inject images into their authentication pipeline. It’s actually a cheap and relatively simple attack to bypass the facial authentication for anyone who has physical access to the phone. It’s actually quite concerning that Apple backtracked on this.
Pairing the forward facing camera assembly to the phone prevents the module from being swapped out with another unit that can inject images into their authentication pipeline. It’s actually a cheap and relatively simple attack to bypass the facial authentication for anyone who has physical access to the phone. It’s actually quite concerning that Apple backtracked on this.
Pairing the forward facing camera assembly to the phone prevents the module from being swapped out with another unit that can inject images into their authentication pipeline. It’s actually a cheap and relatively simple attack to bypass the facial authentication for anyone who has physical access to the phone. This was a key security upgrade to the phone that they just disabled.
That's the opposite of a well thought process. If they had a well thought process in place they would not create these ridiculous restrictions in a first place.
The front facing camera and Face ID components are not a part of the display assembly.
The display assembly just has cutouts in the back layer allowing the cameras, lights and sensors to see through it. To them, it's a flat sheet of glass, and nothing more. The camera assembly is connected directly to the Logic Board; the display isn't a middleman in the electrical chain of power, let alone communication.
The issue people had with this limitation isn't that replacing the display would disable Face ID - it's that replacing one component would have an effect on another, completely unrelated component's functionality.
I can't see a reasonable instance where the IC on the display is part of the authentication chain either. It would make absolutely no sense to pipe that data from the cameras and sensors onto the board, back out to the display, and then back onto the board again, especially given how this functionality is supposed to be baked into the SoC (A15). What I do suspect is that the IC on the display contains EDID information, serial numbers and perhaps calibration parameters, and that serial number not matching what's in the SoC's internal records is what disabled Face ID.
A display replacement on a 6s? Even transferring over the cameras, Touch ID button, front facing speaker, backing plate and reapplying the adhesive around the border, I was in and out in about 45 minutes. Granted it wasn't my first rodeo with a screwdriver by any means, but I'm no experienced phone technician either.
4 to 5 hours is extremely unrealistic for that repair. Not even replacing the entire rear housing, transferring the Logic Board, Camera and other components took that long.
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That would be amazing. But I’d like it accessible to users as well. I like to fix my own stuff.
I am aware of this part but Face ID still uses the dot projector image to also verify the storage "image" of your face. So if someone steals your phone and replaces the screen and/or face ID, that still doesnt work. Unlike most Facial Recognition, Apple specifically built Face ID with the dot projector and a "3D Map" of your face so its always verifying its you and not caching a picture of your face and "verifying" against that like Samsung and Microsoft do.
Maybe Apple detected that you smoked a cigarette while using your iPhone and voided your warranty and Joe at the other end of the mall doesn’t judge you.
I'm convinced this user is actually an AI. It's some generic and vacuous comment every time. Always makes me lol at least.
Anyways, Apple attempts to pull this BS every year. They deserve no praise.
Very good move by Apple. Will be beneficial for customers. Can now repair display with 3rd party repair shops.
