It's easier to watch people entering their PINs on overhead security camera footage than it is to cheat their biometrics. Dedicated attackers have simpler, more

It's easier to watch people entering their PINs on overhead security camera footage than it is to cheat their biometrics. Dedicated attackers have simpler, more effective options than having to hack your biometrics. Yes, your fingerprint and faceprint are irreplaceable. They're kept device-local for more reasons than just Apple Pay. But make no mistake: It's simpler to record you entering your PIN surreptitiously than it is to hack your biometrics. Are the attacks against it "likely" or "unlikely"? They're clearly aware of the "photograph" and "Mission Impossible" scenarios, and demonstrated visible proof of their time spent ensuring they're refused. If you're under directed and specific attack, that's the best you can hope for from technology! It's not human. It can't magically evolve defenses against humans with time, patience, and hacking powers. Devices are only safe when a human takes care of them. Your phone, your computer, phone companies, credit bureaus. When you don't take care of technology, someone will eventually exploit it, usually for greed. Which is more likely: Someone makes a cool mask device that can hack faceprint, and simultaneously gets sued by Honda Robotics for violating one of their many, many patents on lifelike robotic faces. They use it to hack you, and somehow materially impact your life through hacking your device. Or, someone hard-resets your phone while you aren't looking, videotapes you entering your PIN confusedly, and then steals it. A dedicated malicious attacker will always take the second path, because this biometrics crap is useless when you can just get people to blindly enter their PIN as if somehow it's safe to do so anywhere. TL;DR: Enter your PIN in a bathroom stall, or it's on the security tapes of the mall. If you do this, don't enable Touch ID or Face ID. Problem solved.