Pfft. Why not make it work with a balaclava? Or even the ex-presidents masks from Point Break? Alternatively just act like normal humans and breathe fresh air.
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iPhone 13 May Feature Upgraded Face ID That Works With Masks and Foggy Glasses
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Lately my iPhone XS has begun to *sometimes* open when I have a mask on, even to authorize Apple Pay. Intuitively I think it only happens when i unlocked it without the mask in the past few minutes, then put the mask on and entered a store to get something quickly. If more time passes it asks for the pin.
Can't say anything about foggy glasses, it's still summer here.
Can't say anything about foggy glasses, it's still summer here.
It may reduce slightly the risk but where is the study that shows by how much? That is like saying, if you stay in home you reduce the risk of being run over by a car when you are outside. Or if you stop driving, you reduce the risk of running over somebody. This is a never ending argument and we already derailed the subject (sorry admins) but I personally refuse to be a part of bio-security world where I trade in my freedom for some illness i have already faced without a vaccine and without even paracetamol, and I am over 50 yo. Immune system is the most sophisticated thing in our bodies, after the brain.
Apple has had nearly two years of covid to add what some would argue is a must have feature in this new covid world we live in. Even if they haven’t perfected the under screen touch ID to their standards… they could have added an ID sensor on one of the side buttons like on the iPad air or upcoming ipad mini.
You’d still have FaceID! They are not mutually exclusive. I’m in Canada, and I use my iPhone 8 Plus Touch ID button just fine, all year round, gloves and all. Having Face ID and Touch ID would be so simple.
there isnt a single rct showing mask mandates work. and plenty of evidence showing they dont
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Yeah well you're being lied to but you're putting your head into the sand so deep just to not have it be true
People desperately trying to avoid the obvious facts that government and media are lying to them, keeping them in fear, so they can forever control them, and actually the depopulation has already started, these toxic injections are wreaking havoc in a way that flu variant never was able to.
Oh no, it can't be, it can't possibly be all of governments are lying, oh no, all countries agree, all media heads agree, it can't be, it can't be, well except they all are paid by the same people, all media companies are owned, all politicians are owned by the same people, who also happen to print all the money in the world, so it's easy for them
the game is so dumb, it's amazing anyone's falling for it, and a little sad. Apply the carrot and stick approach, pay for each convid death but don't pay for other deaths, well guess what convid deaths are going to skyrocket while the flu, a disease with the same symptoms, has disappeared.
The test is fake, the virus is weak but overblown in the media, and meanwhile they want us to fight each other so we don't turn against them.
Apple unfortunately owned bought and sold by the same money interests. Nothing's easier than taking over a publicly traded company. Especially when you're printing cash.
I have so far not been wearing any masks, and not ever planning to - masks are a submission ritual saying "I am a slave and I will shut my mouth". Masks cannot, never have, and never will protect anyone from airborne corona viruses, these particles are so small they ride on air and get everywhere through, in, around masks, in size comparisons a mask is like chicken wire fence to keep out the mozzies - it doesn't work, never has and never will.
I’ll just say that I don’t envy people in the position of dealing with this kind of nonsense from friends and family. It’s disheartening enough seeing (otherwise seemingly reasonable) strangers on forums fall for this.
Frankly, I STILL want to know how will Apple make Face ID work with me wearing a face mask. Will it require using the new Face ID sensor on the iPhone 13 models only?
He regurgitates info that other, actual RELIABLE, leakers already have out.
Dudes reliability is 74%.
so yeah, “consistently reliable” isn’t what I would use.
“You’d still have FaceID!” Well, you are free to create your own hypothetical, but that was not the hypothetical I was responding to.
I must have been half asleep when I looked at the article. Thank you for explaining it without making me feel like a complete moron (like every other reply to my post on this thread has done.) You have done your good deed for today. Here is a gold star! ⭐
So far I’ve managed to get mine working with a few different angles. I just kept trying to unlock my phone with the mask on, getting to where it forced me to put in my pin, and after a few weeks/months it started working.