Worried that your cellphone's Face ID won't recognize you with that mask on? Here's what to do about it!

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How to Set Up Face ID to Work With a Face Mask

Thursday, April 30th, 2020  |  Author: Steve Sande
https://blog.macsales.com/61377-how-to-set-up-face-id-to-work-with-a-face-mask/

Face ID can work with a face mask in place. It just requires retraining and setting up an alternate appearance.

In the course of a few months, most of us have become accustomed to wearing face masks when we’re outside of our homes or businesses. If you own an iPhone X or 11, one thing is probably driving you slightly crazy about having to wear a mask — Face ID doesn’t recognize you. Trevor Tan, a reporter with the Straits Times of Singapore, outlined a simple method of setting up Face ID so it works with or without a mask, and I’m happy to say that it works!

The method was apparently developed by researchers at Tencent Xuanwu Lab, and it’s quite ingenious: it retrains Face ID by holding a folded mask in place touching the tip of the nose on one side of the face, then the other.

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1) Launch Settings, then go to Face ID & Passcode. Tap “Reset Face ID“, then fold the face mask in half and hold it to one side of your face, just touching the tip of your nose. Remember the process you went through in setting up Face ID when you got your iPhone X or 11? You’ll go through that “head rotation” learning process again, only holding the mask in place on one side of your face as in the photo below:

Holding the folded face mask in place prior to the first part of training Face ID.

Hopefully, these photos aren’t too traumatic to our readers — I haven’t been able to get a haircut and I’ve also given up shaving…

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