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iPhone X Nest App Triggering FaceID Infrared Scan

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zipperdoyle

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Nov 1, 2013
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Thought I was crazy but is anyone else seeing this?

We have a Nest Cam in my son's room and I was in the room during his bed time to help him go to sleep. I opened up my Nest App to the dashboard screen (a live preview of the camera) and I noticed that my iPhone X was flashing my face every few seconds which I'm assuming was the infrared camera being picked up by the camera. When I clicked in to the detail view of the Nest Cam in the app it stopped flashing. But as soon as I go back to dashboard view it was flashing again in the preview.

Anyone else see this? More of a curiosity and not clear on why Nest would need access to it.
 
zipperdoyle said:
Thought I was crazy but is anyone else seeing this?

We have a Nest Cam in my son's room and I was in the room during his bed time to help him go to sleep. I opened up my Nest App to the dashboard screen (a live preview of the camera) and I noticed that my iPhone X was flashing my face every few seconds which I'm assuming was the infrared camera being picked up by the camera. When I clicked in to the detail view of the Nest Cam in the app it stopped flashing. But as soon as I go back to dashboard view it was flashing again in the preview.

Anyone else see this? More of a curiosity and not clear on why Nest would need access to it.
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What exactly did you notice flashing? And flashing how exactly?
 
zipperdoyle said:
Thought I was crazy but is anyone else seeing this?

We have a Nest Cam in my son's room and I was in the room during his bed time to help him go to sleep. I opened up my Nest App to the dashboard screen (a live preview of the camera) and I noticed that my iPhone X was flashing my face every few seconds which I'm assuming was the infrared camera being picked up by the camera. When I clicked in to the detail view of the Nest Cam in the app it stopped flashing. But as soon as I go back to dashboard view it was flashing again in the preview.

Anyone else see this? More of a curiosity and not clear on why Nest would need access to it.
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I don't have a Nest Cam, but I have other Nest products. The Nest app (assume it's the same?) still looks like it's not optimized for the X, so it's unlikely that they built any additional X specific functionality to it. As @Vermifuge said, it's probably just iOS doing attention awareness. Interesting situation, and this will probably open the floodgates for more oddities (or intrusions) of the X face scan tech.
 
I got a nest house, all the products they make and neither my X nor my wife’s X flash when using the app for face id, only if we physically logout of the app...i would say reinstall the app
 
jeepik said:
I got a nest house, all the products they make and neither my X nor my wife’s X flash when using the app for face id, only if we physically logout of the app...i would say reinstall the app
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You wouldn't see the flash unless you had some sort of camera that was sensitive to the IR spectrum.
 
zipperdoyle said:
Thought I was crazy but is anyone else seeing this?

We have a Nest Cam in my son's room and I was in the room during his bed time to help him go to sleep. I opened up my Nest App to the dashboard screen (a live preview of the camera) and I noticed that my iPhone X was flashing my face every few seconds which I'm assuming was the infrared camera being picked up by the camera. When I clicked in to the detail view of the Nest Cam in the app it stopped flashing. But as soon as I go back to dashboard view it was flashing again in the preview.

Anyone else see this? More of a curiosity and not clear on why Nest would need access to it.
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This just happened to me too, but I don’t know why only at the dashboard preview we can see the flashing light and not when entering the camera full screen. When checking at the preview small video, I see the blinking light is every 2-3 secs
 
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