How to Unlock Your iPhone With Your Apple Watch When Wearing a Mask

[Grayburn]

It’s worked about 95% of the time for me. It’s so seamless that I don’t even think about it anymore.

I have a 12 Pro and the series 6 Watch.

I have the same as you and rarely does it not work for me.

 

[madeirabhoy]

its actually working now quicker for me when i have a mask on than when i dont.

 

[Jimmy Bubbles]

Easy, you just remove your mask and never wear it again. Pandemic over.

 

[MN7119]

Stupid that I still have to enter password to use Apple Pay. Touch ID was so much better.

 

[arn]

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iOS 14.5: How to Mask Unlock Your iPhone With Apple Watch

iOS 14.5 is now available, and a key new feature is the ability to unlock an iPhone with Face ID while wearing a mask, so long as you are wearing an Apple Watch. Read on to learn how this feature works. Apple introduced its Face ID facial recognition system in November 2017 with the launch of...

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