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iOS 15.4 Beta Lets You Use Face ID With a Mask On
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It’s not out yet. You didn’t consider getting an Apple Watch? I’m a bit confused because didn’t you know it had Face ID before you bought it? Did you think it would unlock with a mask on?
Unfortunately for Touch ID your only choice is really the iPhone SE2. It’s kind of dated ?
It taps you on the watch to let you know your phone is being unlocked and it uses your eyes in a scan. So what you say is really a non issue.
I am sure some people will agree to this. It’s going to be great for people that “find” iPhones ??
Do you know how hard it is to program a security feature like FaceID which was designed to work with your complete face, only to then re-engineer it to work with your Apple Watch, and then have to again re-engineer it to work with a mask?
Oh yeah, and adding to the frustration - design this feature while collaborating with your fellow engineers remotely, when you don't even know if your colleagues are giving this feature their full attention when they are coding the new features.
C'mon! Have some empathy!
Many folks who have iPhones also have Apple Watches. For them, unlocking the phone isn't the pain point - it's paying with Apple Pay! While one can use ApplePay with the watch, that can be pretty awkward to do when the pay terminals are pretty high up (e.g. in grocery stores).
Well, depends of the country you are from, here in Germany it’s not that severe. I usually set my display to “always on” when I’m doing a longer grocery store session. Simply because it pisses me off to keep rotating myself while typing my very long alpha numeric password, to avoid store cameras recording it, and that every time it locks.
Yeah it’s a security trade off, but I would welcome the login with mask option.
I had Apple Watch 1 and 4 and will probably never buy this crap again, my wrist is now occupied by a nice classy Omega Watch, which will last longer than I will.
It was working on my iPhone 12 Pro Max last summer, and even on some older models as well, there was no special toggle to enable this but as you entered passcode phone learned and unlocked, either with mask on, or off, but on my iPhone it eventually stopped working in iOS 15.
Face ID working with mask on
Is anyone else experiencing this? For the last couple of days, my iPhone XS Max is unlocking every single time without issue while I have my face mask on. I never did that face mask hack so Face ID has never worked for me up till now. Attention setting is on. I’m super happy about this, but...
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Face ID works with face masks now
Well, couple of days ago Faceid started unlocking my iPhone 12 pro max (which I have since November) while I’m wearing mask on, and I don’t have Apple Watch, finally! Why did it take so long?
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as in, hopefully Omicron is the last major wave and in less then a year it won't be an issue.
What development cycle takes 2 years to create a shippable increment of a relatively minor feature? Do you even Scrum bro?
So you have an alphanumeric password but you leave your phone unlocked sometimes. This is a common situation where when users are forced to have high security they will figure ways to make it useless. It’s kind of like when companies require complex passwords so the user writes the password on a sticky note under his keyboard. I think you would be better off just sticking to a four digit pin and keeping it on all the time versus making a password that is too difficult to use so you leave your phone unlocked. Just my opinion but you have to make your own decision as to what are the risks and what you feel comfortable with.
I kind of feel you when it comes to a nice watch. I used to wear a nice watch but I prefer the Apple Watch just because it’s more useful than something that costs thousands of dollars and only tells time and maybe the date. I won’t argue that one looks considered better though so for looks a nice watch is going to win every day of the week.
I’ve gone over that decision in my head and thought well I could wear the Apple Watch and a nice watch but to me that looks kind of goofy. I could wear the nice watch and lose the functions of the Apple Watch but that would’ve been a poor decision at least for me. My watch alerted me to rapid heart rate so I went to the ER. I won’t say it saved my life because it wasn’t afib but there was a temporary problem that needed to be addressed. Would it have just gone away if I didn’t go in? Maybe. Could I have died? Possibly but unlikely. Of course that’s not the reason why I bought and wear it because even though the thought of it alerting me to a problem was there I figured since I’m healthy it’s extremely unlikely. I mainly bought it because it tracks my exercise and steps and the notifications.
So after 2 years where it would have been actually useful, now when people are not wearing masks as often, they decide now to lower the security of Face ID completely?
This is one reason why the fingerprint reader on the back of Samsung phones is superior. I can unlock my phone in my pocket or in my hand, and by the time I have it up in front of me, it's ready to go. Probably 30% of the time I try to unlock my iPhone, I'm looking at a black screen and I need to wake it up before it will start the unlock process.
Does it? I thought it authenticated the top half with FaceID and, if that checked out, it used the watch as a second factor authentication.
Maybe I'm making that up... I'll have to look it up later and maybe disable that feature.
I bought it because, in the first place I wanted to test it with a mask, there are several videos of people configuring FaceID with a mask on and apparently it worked, but it didn’t work on my 13 mini. And because I didn’t remember how tiresome it was to enter the passcode each time I want to unlock my smartphone.
Also, I knew, from Prosser leak, that Apple was working on this. So I bought it in November expecting this to be released at some point during the fall. I really had the hope. But the feature didn’t come. And the returning window was approaching. And I shamed on Apple for forcing me buying an Apple Watch to be able to use it during this never ending pandemic. So before the returning window ended, I decided to ask the refund.
I even considered buying an Apple Watch, I asked here in the forum for the cheapest Apple Watch to unlock the iPhone -just for that because I honestly don’t want or need an Apple Watch- and most of the people told me “don’t buy an Apple Watch just to unlock your iPhone“. Honestly I’m pretty happy with my smart band that I charge once per month, and I don’t see myself charging another device each night. And I don’t need the expense of an Apple Watch.
Now that this is a real option, I will consider again the 13 mini, as I ended up loving it, and would’ve kept if it wasn’t because the issue of FaceID with masks.
You can lock your phone again from the watch if it was an accidental unlock, and when you lock it from the watch it prompts for code instead of biometrics
It would be nice if Apple combined it with the eyes-only mode though. “Enable lenient Face ID for the next hour”. And/or a Control Center toggle.