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Old Jan 4, 2021 | 9:56 am
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Originally Posted by draver
Unlocking with a mask will not work currently. I tried that several times and it told me to remove my face covering. However you can set up your second FaceID while wearing sunglasses.
If FaceID were to be set to work while wearing all sunglasses, then wouldn't a static picture of the person in all those sunglasses always work to unlock a phone set to unlock with FaceID?

Face-based unlocking without an "attention aware" aspect -- an aspect which seems to often be related to what the eyeballs are doing -- would sort of make FaceID less useful at securing the information/device than is already the case.
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