iOS 12 Beta Supports Face ID Rescans With Swipe Up Gesture on iPhone X

[chabig]

Currently, when you hold up the iPhone X and Face ID fails, you either have to lower it and raise it again, or press the side button to put the iPhone to sleep and wake it up through another side button press or tapping the display. Both of these methods will reactivate a Face ID scan.

There’s a much simpler way. Just cancel out of the keyboard and swipe again.
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It’s accurate! If FaceID fails once on iOS 11, you can swipe up to retry. But if it fails twice and the keypad appears, you’re forced to type your passcode (or lock and unlock to try again. See screenshot.) iOS 12 allows you to swipe up when the keypad is shown.

No. Just hit cancel and swipe again.

 

[Col4bin]

Needs a continuous scan, not a reinitiation trigger.

 

[yanki01]

why couldn't they implement this in iOS 11.x?

 

[jarman92]

I actually think this is a myth. It never helped in any situation for me.

Definitely not a myth...I've had situations where I was wearing new sunglasses and Face ID refused to let me in at least 3 times. I entered my passcode, locked the phone and tried again, and it opened right up.
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Some of these things could have been done in iOS 11.3 or something.

Seriously. Was just thinking the same thing...this issue has been the worst thing about Face ID.

 

[aleni]

Just press cancel and swipe up. Macrumors doesn’t know this? Lol

 

[jarman92]

It’s definitely not new, this is how I’ve always triggered a re-scan.

No. I just checked, and if Face ID fails to recognizer your face and the keyboard appears you cannot get it to re-scan unless you hit cancel, lower your phone, or press the side button.

 

[SuperCachetes]

This sounds like a great tweak to iOS, but hearing these stories about Face ID don’t make me excited about losing the Touch ID on my 7... The only times I’ve ever needed to ”rescan” a finger is when it was sopping wet and wasn’t going to work, period.

 

[jsmith189]

This is very welcomed! One of my biggest annoyances.

 

[aleni]

This sounds like a great tweak to iOS, but hearing these stories about Face ID don’t make me excited about losing the Touch ID on my 7... The only times I’ve ever needed to ”rescan” a finger is when it was sopping wet and wasn’t going to work, period.

Believe me. FaceID is better. It’s effortless. For example when you press iMessage notification in lockscreen. You just tap it and it'll open, unlike touch id, you have to tap the notification and then put your finger on the touchID.

Or when you open paypal app, it’s opened without the need to put finger on touch ID.

When you want to login to some websites in safari, or even apps, faceID scans your face, viola, password is already filled. It’s like typing password by only looking at it.

The list goes on and on and on.

 

[currentinterest]

Typing in the passcode appears to teach Face ID about the new event for me. I now almost never encounter a fail. When I do, it usually because my eyes are mostly closed.

 

[The Game 161]

Small but nice feature

 

[GregJohn]

Nice! It is a small thing but I’ve encountered it a few times and was annoyed having to turn it off or away then back again to try. Sometimes the little things end up being the most useful updates


And yes anyone who said iOS 11 did this... is lying or never had a iPhone X. This was not an option.

Was still hoping for landscape Face ID as rumoured. I haven’t tried but unfortunately don’t think it made it.

 

[DribbleCastle]

Typing in the passcode appears to teach Face ID about the new event for me. I now almost never encounter a fail. When I do, it usually because my eyes are mostly closed.

You must not use your phone in bed, on a table or when you lie down on a couch much (face on pillow). I had to shorten my passcode to keep my sanity since I got the X. FaceID is great when it works but super annoying compared to TouchID in those situations. It’s the only thing I don’t love about the X.

 

[McG2k1]

I’ve found Face ID to occasionally be convenient but the vast majority of the time I’d rather have the fingerprint reader. Especially while driving. With my old phone I never had to take the phone off it’s mount, or take my eyes off the road just to unlock it.

If they’re going to be Apple and double down on a bad design choice I hope they at least put a fingerprint reader behind the screen as well. Doesn’t seem to be a problem for the competition.

 

[dk001]

Finally. I hate relocking and then turning the screen back on after Face ID fails.

All I did was select Cancel and swipe up in iOS11.3.1
Quickly dumped the relock....

But typing in your passcode is how it learns right?

Like many, in a month of testing, I was unable to get the X to learn and become more accurate under Face ID.

Nice! It is a small thing but I’ve encountered it a few times and was annoyed having to turn it off or away then back again to try. Sometimes the little things end up being the most useful updates


And yes anyone who said iOS 11 did this... is lying or never had a iPhone X. This was not an option.

Was still hoping for landscape Face ID as rumoured. I haven’t tried but unfortunately don’t think it made it.

Read the top of this post ... it was kinda sorta there in 11.

Yeah too bad, Landscape is the missing piece.

 

[Smcooney]

Just tried this and it works. A really nice fix for an annoyance I had some times.

How does it handle this situation: When you wake your phone to notifications, and want to your messages to expand on the home screen, but the don't (due to Face ID fail). But you don't want to fully open your phone? Can you swipe up partially to rescan but stay on the lock screen?

 

[penajmz]

How does it handle this situation: When you wake your phone to notifications, and want to your messages to expand on the home screen, but the don't (due to Face ID fail). But you don't want to fully open your phone? Can you swipe up partially to rescan but stay on the lock screen?

Doesn't handle it well. I covered my face and lifted my phone so it could fail on purpose. After it failed there was no prompt to swipe up to try again and after you swipe up and it sees your face the phone will unlock bypassing the notifications.

This is only for failed unlocks it looks like.

 

[44267547]

I’ve found Face ID to occasionally be convenient but the vast majority of the time I’d rather have the fingerprint reader. Especially while driving. With my old phone I never had to take the phone off it’s mount, or take my eyes off the road just to unlock it. .

Or, I tend to leave my phone completely alone when I’m driving. No smart phone is important enough where I need to take my eyes off the road and cause an accident.

If they’re going to be Apple and double down on a bad design choice I hope they at least put a fingerprint reader behind the screen as well

This gets brought up all the time. Rather you’re aware or not, Craig Federighi Stated they already experimented with the fingerprint reader under display and abandoned that in place of Face ID. So I think it’s evident that the will not use a fingerprint reader under the display, being that they favored face ID. That said, Federighi also said that touch ID was always ‘Plan B’, where they Face ID was their primary choice being ‘Plan A.

Doesn’t seem to be a problem for the competition.

Actually, It was rumored Samsung’s Note 9 was said they were struggling with implementing With the fingerprint reader under the display, because it struggled with accuracy rates and power consumption. Also, I have also read that screen protectors pose to be problematic with fingerprint sensors under the display, affecting the reading with the print and sensor.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/09/samsung-screen-fingerprint-sensor-galaxy-note-9/amp/

 

[BuffaloTF]

Is this actually new? Have I imagined it or have you been able to do this for a while on iOS 11. Since upgraded to the beta so can’t check

I don't think it is. I've been doing this for some time; while I'm not confident enough to say "since the X came out," I can comofortably say that it's been a very long time. Swiping up, but not far enough to unlock and letting it slide back down has always (or has been for as long as I can remember) triggered the face ID... I use it to look at my notifications without unlocking, rather than doing that then swiping down from the top.

Similarly, I noticed that 2FA SMS codes auto-fill now if you stay within the app that is requesting it since 11.4, this is also listed as a new iOS 12 feature.

 

[Mefisto]

Maybe it's because Face ID has actually been working very well for me, but this is a feature I didn't even know I wanted. Until I read about it and got to thinking about those very rare occurrences when Face ID doesn't work and I am slightly inconvenienced for a few seconds.

Nice feature to get. And I just tried this on iOS 11 and if it's there, I'm too stupid to realize how to actually make use of it.

 

[kingestkong]

Thank GOD! This was my biggest annoyance with faceID