iOS 14.5 Adds an Option to Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch if You're Wearing a Mask

[mlody]

Will this work with Series 1/2 models?

 

[The Game 161]

And if you don’t have an Apple Watch?

What you playing at if you don’t

 

[The Game 161]

Great for those who use their phone and are on the front line. Not sure why it took a pandemic though to add it

Keep people going until Touch ID for 12s lol

 

[Gix1k]

there are a lot of posts about it on MR. FaceID eventually learns your face better and if you get a lot of fails but immediately enter your Passcode afterwards, it learns. Sort of like „oh I probably should have gotten this!“

it works with any mask, white, black. Fabric doesn’t matter either. It DOES NOT work if I wear a beanie at the same time. Also for some reason it only works to unlock the phone itself. Not on apps that use FaceID for authentication

I stand corrected then. Never heard of such since masks became a thing.

 

[Ronald Reagan]

Why can’t Apple just have a setting in Face ID to allow for slightly reduced security for a mask that covers the nose? If my mask is pulled down uncovering my nose it works perfect nearly every time. No watch required.

 

[The Game 161]

lol - pushing the sales of Apple Watches up...

Don’t think it needs any help lol

 

[BWhaler]

Brilliant. Great work Apple.

 

[ZebraDude]

Will this work with Series 1/2 models?

How about Series 0?

 

[Apple_Robert]

And if you don’t have an Apple Watch?

You need to buy one.

 

[Continental1k]

How about Series 0?

Probably not considering you need the latest WatchOS to make this work. This will exclude Series 0/1/2.

 

[QuarterSwede]

It is simply false that “Right now, with a face mask on, Face ID does not work”.
One of the selling points of FaceID is that it intelligently adapts to changes in appearance and also that it simply isn’t using a flat photo of your face. If you’ve used a mask for more than a day or two it knows. I can imagine that most people saying this have probably only left their house once over the past year. If you consistently wear the same type of face mask the same way it easily learns. Worked on my last iPhone, continued to work on my new iPhone. A day of inconvenience, but by now most people should have it working.

I’ve worn a mask since this all started and I got an iPhone with FaceID in November (iPhone 12 Pro Max). I have a job where I have to wear a mask all day at work and use my phone to help do my job. It absolutely does not recognize me with it on. If it’s below my nose, it works. If I’m wearing my mask properly then it never does.

This new addition is something I may download the public beta for.

 

[iGüey]

We need it to be released NOW!!!!!

 

[ipedro]

Not the word that you were looking for.

Indeed. The origin of the word epidemiology comes from “amongst the people”. Look over there! .... aha! Edited my original post while you were distracted by my etymological pun to mask my “epidemiology” autocorrect, which is itself a pun. A punception.

 

[nfl46]

Good. It looks like we will be still wearing masks the rest of the year so this looks promising. Thanks, Apple!

 

[musicpenguy]

Any reports yet on the reliability of the watch and phone betas? Worried about installing betas on the watch ...

 

[jz0309]

On the power button?

for the iPhone: in the history folder (aka don't bring it back)

 

[jz0309]

Will this work with Series 1/2 models?

I don't think so, if I recall watchOS 7 requires Series 3 or later

 

[AFDoc]

People are really that excited about this? It's really that hard to put in you passcode?

 

[Apple_Robert]

Any reports yet on the reliability of the watch and phone betas? Worried about installing betas on the watch ...

If something happens with the watch on a beta (bricks etc.), you will have to send it to Apple. You also can't downgrade the watch. Unless you are willing to take the risk and send your watch to Apple, stay on the formal release.

 

[Grayburn]

We need it to be released NOW!!!!!

Exactly...by the time 14.5 is released to the public we might not have to wear the masks🤞🏻

 

[Apple_Robert]

Exactly...by the time 14.5 is released to the public we might not have to where the masks🤞🏻

Even with the vaccine, we will still have to wear a mask for a good while longer.

 

[Grayburn]

Even with the vaccine, we will still have to wear a mask for a good while longer.

True...they should still get it out there ASAP though.

 

[Chayuth]

It is simply false that “Right now, with a face mask on, Face ID does not work”.
One of the selling points of FaceID is that it intelligently adapts to changes in appearance and also that it simply isn’t using a flat photo of your face. If you’ve used a mask for more than a day or two it knows. I can imagine that most people saying this have probably only left their house once over the past year. If you consistently wear the same type of face mask the same way it easily learns. Worked on my last iPhone, continued to work on my new iPhone. A day of inconvenience, but by now most people should have it working.

Are you using iPhone at all? I had mask on for 1 year now and still FaceID is not working. In fact Apple intentionally coded it not to work and disable itself of iPhone see you with mask, since mid 2020, when mask wearing is enforced worldwide because it will be faster to instantly disable it and let you enter passcode.

 

[Canyda]

Exactly...by the time 14.5 is released to the public we might not have to where the masks🤞🏻

Unless Apple is going to sit on 14.5 until 2022....

 

[alexandr]

Because the watch locks itself the moment it leaves your wrist

right, and once it leaves your wrist - it would no longer wait for payments.