Making Face ID work with Masks
As companies, governments, and families began requiring masks to help reduce the airborne transmission of COVID-19, Apple quickly realized there was a problem: Face ID didn’t exactly work with a mask on. While iPhone users started to experiment with DIY solutions to try and get around the mask issue, Apple’s own developers created a series of iOS updates to help make things easier, starting with improvements in iOS 14.5. These quickly evolved from rather clunky workarounds to more advanced AI recognition features and now, at last, the “True” Face ID capability that can just scan your eyes and above for ID so you can wear whatever mask as you please.