iPhone X FaceID and surgical masks

[digitalexplr]

This thread sounds like an April Fools joke! Who would expect FaceID to work with half your face covered up? Seriously.

 

[HEK]

Yes they do. In my line of work they are essential, because that's how my partners and I communicate with one another during the day.

Suggest turning off Face ID then in operating room. Confirming t times will be easier.

Curious, how do you sterilize iPhone? Autoclave not so good on battery.

Just had a thought.... what if you have your iPhone learn your face with surgical mask on face? Could do that before sterilizing.

 

[cdcastillo]

Suggest turning off Face ID then in operating room. Confirming t times will be easier.

Curious, how do you sterilize iPhone? Autoclave not so good on battery.

Just had a thought.... what if you have your iPhone learn your face with surgical mask on face? Could do that before sterilizing.

Both questions already answered.

 

[harami]

This thread sounds like an April Fools joke! Who would expect FaceID to work with half your face covered up? Seriously.

Obviously you have no drinking clue!

Only the surgeon and a nurse or two assisting in the actual procedure are sterile.

There is a whole team of physicians (anesthesiologists, cardiologists, ; nurses: techs , who wear surgical attire and surgical masks.

All these people are still hanging on to iPhone 8 ornhave moved on to Samsung.

Bring back Touch ID or make Face ID good enough so that it doesn’t need visualization of the nose to ID
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If you’re wearing a surgical mask, chances are you’re wearing gloves, too. So it doesn’t matter whether it’s Face or Touch ID anyway, you wont be able to use it.

Touché!!! Didn’t see that coming now did you cowboy????

But seriously, I don’t think that Apple should be designing for such exceptional cases...

Obviously you have no drinking clue.

 

[AppleHaterLover]

Obviously you have no drinking clue.

You could say that, yes.

 

[dlbmacfan]

I work in an operating room and I'd love it if Face ID worked with a mask on. I'm going to test out my new iPhone 11 Pro tomorrow. My workaround has been to leave the phone unlocked for 1 hour at a time; it'd be too painful to unlock my phone with a passcode after each text message during the day. I have to coordinate staffing for operating room schedule changes, and I get a ton of texts every day. It's not an ideal solution but it's the best I can come up with.

 

[akash.nu]

I work in an operating room and I'd love it if Face ID worked with a mask on. I'm going to test out my new iPhone 11 Pro tomorrow. My workaround has been to leave the phone unlocked for 1 hour at a time; it'd be too painful to unlock my phone with a passcode after each text message during the day. I have to coordinate staffing for operating room schedule changes, and I get a ton of texts every day. It's not an ideal solution but it's the best I can come up with.

Surgical masks literally covers half of your face. To make FaceID work with that means lowering the level of facial feature mapping which actually significantly reduces security when it comes to pattern matching. I don’t see Apple changing their present implementation to make it convenient for one specific use case at a specific setup and bring the security threshold down for all of us.