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iOS 13.5 will skip Face ID if your iPhone sees you are wearing a mask
- greggman3 7y agoThis is an example of one of those frustrating things where Apple and most other USA companies really care about how their products don't work well in other countries. All my Japanese friends have complained about this issue since iPhone X shipped but of course complaints were ignored because people in SV don't wear masks. It's only now that people in SV are wearing masks the someone cared to deal with it. I've seen other issues like this. Google Docs PDF support had all kinds of issues with Japanese. I think Google has 3000 employees in Japan so it's hard to believe none of them ran into these bugs but it's not hard to believe that Google USA didn't care about them.
- Nextgrid 7y agoThere used to be a time when you could actually tell your phone whether you wanted to use biometrics or a passcode. You could either place your finger on the home button for Touch ID or use “slide to unlock” and go straight to the passcode prompt. Then an idiot at Apple decided it was too complicated and you now need to wait for biometrics to fail before you can type your passcode (also, biometrics interfere with passcode entry and will erase any entered digits). How about they just bring back the option for the user to tell the device in advance which auth method they’d like to use? There are a lot of other cases not related to masks where you know in advance that biometrics are going to fail and would like to not have to wait for them to fail before entering your passcode.