"Wired" magazine senior writer David Pierce tests the iPhone X's Face ID system with sunglasses during his evaluation of Apple's latest smartphone. “Face ID knew it was somebody’s face, but it wasn’t duped into thinking it was me,” she wrote. She went to a mask maker and asked for a recreation of her face to see if the iPhone X would be fooled. Wall Street Journal reporter Joanna Stern tried something a little different. The iPhone X was able to pass these tests by knowing the difference between a photo and a face. Several attempts were made to trick Face ID into unlocking the phone with a photo of a person instead of a real face. “That’s important when you wake up in the middle of the night.” “It also worked in the dark, thanks to the use of infrared sensors rather than just the standard camera,” Jesdanun wrote. The Associated Press’s Anick Jesdanun reported that Face ID also worked in most bright sunlight, although not every time. It was found to work correctly when the user was wearing headphones or a hat.
Not surprisingly, wearing any kind of disguise – even one covering just part of the face – caused Face ID to fail. One fairly common failure was that the Face ID sometimes did not unlock the iPhone X if the user wore a certain kind of sunglasses. Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, announces features of the new iPhone X at the Steve Jobs Theater on the new Apple campus on Tuesday, Sept. An infrared camera then reads these marks to create an image that can be confirmed as having the same appearance. It works by projecting more than 30,000 dots on the face of users to create a kind of map. Other smartphones – including the latest Samsung Galaxy models – also use facial and eye recognition technology to start up the devices.īut Apple says its Face ID system operates differently. The new Face ID recognition system replaces the Touch ID on other Apple devices that used a fingerprint to unlock the phone. The company says this gives users power to open up the phone just by looking at it. The camera is also trained to recognize faces and expressions. Apple says its TrueDepth technology greatly improves performance for photographs and video. One of the most-talked about features of the iPhone X is the new front and back-facing cameras.
It then floods your face with infrared light, which is outside the visible spectrum of light.The phone will use various sensors to work out how much light it needs to illuminate your face.Apple's facial recognition system for the iPhone X isn't massively complicated.