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> my Face ID has stopped working because I’m wearing a mask I have started thinking pretty strongly about buying an SE (2020) and trading back my 11 Pro Max ba
by techsupporter 6y ago
> my Face ID has stopped working because I’m wearing a mask
I have started thinking pretty strongly about buying an SE (2020) and trading back my 11 Pro Max based solely on Touch ID. I've missed having Touch ID for a while but I like the much better screen and cameras on my 11...but considering masks in public are very likely to be a thing in North America for a while, it's worth my considering.
My hope is that Apple figures out how to do multiple faces on Face ID, like fingerprints on Touch ID, so I can tell it "this is me" and "this is me with a mask."
- pmalynin 6y agoSettings -> Face ID —> Set Up an Alternative Appearance
- sq_ 6y agoWill this work reliably for teaching it to recognize you with a mask on? Seems like using different masks or having some wrinkle in your mask would throw it off. Additionally, would it lower the amount of information the sensor can gather to the point where someone else's face with a mask would trick it into unlocking?
- techsupporter 6y agoI've tried that and maybe I need to fiddle with it some more but I've run into a roadblock: I have three different types of cloth masks and Face ID seems to trip over the flat-front kind from Tom Bihn and the pleated kind popular with Etsy sellers.
- gnicholas 6y agoThis didn’t work for me. It said something was blocking my face. This was with a black mask, not a bandana.