Apple tests updated Face ID for iPhone 13, which will recognize users wearing a mask and with fogged-up glasses
According to FrontPageTech insider and blogger Jon Prosser, Apple is preparing updated Face ID sensors for iPhone 13.
What's known
The company's engineers now have many prototypes of the technology. One of them looks, like a case. It's being tested on the iPhone 12.
According to an insider, the new sensors will be able to identify the masked user. Recall that the current generation of Face ID requires the Apple Watch smartwatch connected to the iPhone for this process. Prosser noted that engineers are testing the new Face ID in different conditions. For example, with fogged up glasses, as this is quite a popular problem when wearing a mask. What's interesting is that the company is asking testers to register faces without masks and only then put them on.
It's not clear yet whether this unlock will appear at the launch of iPhone 13 sales. Perhaps the feature will be activated in future software updates.
Gonna come out of retirement briefly to say that it's not modified hardware and it's the same as the one in the iPhone 13 series
- McGuire Wood (@Jioriku) August 25, 2021
Software updates may push this new feature to users of it's not ready to launch here soon https://t.co/k01gy69wFs
Source: FrontPageTech
