iOS 13.5 Beta Makes It Easier to Unlock an iPhone With Passcode When Wearing a Mask

[The Barron]

Release 13.5! Are we going to have to wait until the Covid-19 is 100% gone?

 

[Teammm]

Power tip: when you swipe up on current versions, press FaceID text in the center of the screen to avoid waiting for it to scan your face and fail, prompting the password after that.

Definitely a Power Tip!

 

[Le Big Mac]

Cool but can they hurry up with the release already? I’d like to use mail and the contact app again which have been blocked by our IT

+1. Dunno what else is planned for 13.5, but how about just integrating this feature only into 13.4.2 and releasing ASAP.

 

[anthogag]

Do people have distinct hands if scanned by a computer? Can iPhone FaceID scan the hand to unlock the phone if it sits on a table beside the user?

 

[a m u n]

If only there was some other means of authenticating, that didn't rely on your face being visible.

#TouchIDForEver

Touch ID works with gloves?

Face ID is superior, no doubt.

 

[Snow Tiger]

Wait for it ... iOS 13.6 Beta will have the message , "Swipe Face Mask Or Enter Passcode ."

 

[x-evil-x]

Just bring back touch id already Apple.

 

[Braderunner]

Perfect!! In addition to all of the above this is useful as an anesthesia provider in the OR setting.

Please stay off your phone, when in the OR, administering anesthesia.

 

[Good User Name]

All of you touched touchID folks realize you should be wearing gloves too right? Right?

 

[thejadedmonkey]

All of you touched touchID folks realize you should be wearing gloves too right? Right?

Where I live, only masks are required, not gloves.

 

[EM2013]

If only Apple could’ve put Touch ID under screen back in 2017, but they swore that was never the intention 🙄

 

[minimo3]

All of you touched touchID folks realize you should be wearing gloves too right? Right?

TouchID works with latex / nitrile gloves.

This is why I keep a IPhone SE 1 as my backup device. Works great with masks and gloves.

 

[SlyBriFry]

Gotta say, Touch ID was still a superior user experience.

 

[russell_314]

Gotta say, Touch ID was still a superior user experience.

I guess it depends on the user and their needs but I can say my experience was 100% the opposite of this. Touch ID was usable but failed way too many times compared to FaceID. Of course if you're wearing a mask then Touch ID becomes superior. I don’t work in the medical field so in a few months when this insanity goes away I won’t have to worry about masks.
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Please stay off your phone, when in the OR, administering anesthesia.

How else do you expect him to listen to music and text his girlfriend? 😂

 

[Octavius8]

Now you see the need for touchID????. Please bring it back!!!. Keep faceID, but please bring back touchID!!!. PLEASE!. Otherwise we are forced to manually input the password in the screen, like 10 years ago!!!.
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I want a SE just because of touchID!!
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Also in Whatsapp I need touchID or faster to give the option to unlock. Whatsapp asks me to retry and fail 3 times to give me the chance to input the code. I have to remove the mask just to unlock my Whatsapp. Millions outside USA use Whatsapp. More millions than those using Messages app.

 

[Braderunner]

Gotta say, Touch ID was still a superior user experience.

Rarely worked for me. Face ID, however...rarely fails.

 

[DeepIn2U]

Power tip: when you swipe up on current versions, press FaceID text in the center of the screen to avoid waiting for it to scan your face and fail, prompting the password after that.

I had wondered how iOS users with iPhone X and up was able to unlock without issue using FaceID. Good to see apple making critical adjustments along withbei apart of and helping the commmnity at large.

 

[sakurarain]

Apple: actually you all guys have a better choice already. Purchase the new SE!😝😝😝😝

 

[FelixDerKater]

If only they could invent something like Touch ID...

 

[iVoid]

I'd rather they work on making it recognize me with my mask on.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

TouchID isn't dead after all! I loved it on my 7+ and while FaceID on my 11 PRO Max is OK, I sure wish it had TouchID.

 

[alexandr]

and by the time this is released, hopefully we won't be needing it.

 

[Bustycat]

Apple could have done this two months earlier.

 

[harami]

Finally! It took 59,000 dead Americans, a 20% fall in GDP to realize the problems faced by medical workers! We can’t keep touching our masks. Bring Touch ID back. Or improve Face ID skills so that it doesn’t triangulate scan using the philtrum!

 

[iGeneo]

Apple could have done this two months earlier.

Two months ago, we were at February 29. Face masks for the public was not even a remote consideration.