This is by far the biggest selling point of iPhone X as the technology underneath Face
ID facial scanning is the most advanced yet with some even calling it at least two years ahead of competing technologies.
Not exact matches
And unlike Android - based
facial scanning alternatives, it is more secure than its Touch
ID fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 8.
That's the argument by KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo, who told investors in a research note on Monday that the iPhone X's
facial -
scanning feature, Face
ID, puts it one - and - a-half to two - and - a-half years ahead of rival technology in Android - based alternatives like Samsung's Galaxy S8.
The killer feature on the iPhone X is Face
ID, Apple's
facial recognition technology that can
scan and recognize a user's face in order to unlock a phone — no fingerprint necessary.
Because Face
ID takes a detailed 3D
facial scan, it's unable to be fooled by a photo, a mask, or other
facial imitation, and there's also an «attention aware» security feature.
Third - party app developers don't have access to the
facial map that Face
ID uses to unlock a device, but they are able to use the TrueDepth Camera to
scan a user's face for the purpose of creating more realistic augmented reality apps.
In many ways, Face
ID is just like Touch
ID, except it uses a
facial scan instead of a fingerprint.
If you're ready for something new, including an almost edge - to - edge OLED display with TrueTone and HDR, a TrueDepth camera that gives you Portrait selfies, face tracking and Animoji, and Face
ID facial identity
scanning, an optically stabilized telephoto lens on back, and a new gesture navigation system on front, then get your order in as soon as you can for iPhone X.
Developer Guilherme Rambo over the weekend discovered the preferences panel and set - up process for Apple's Face
ID, the name of Apple's rumored
facial -
scanning feature in the iPhone X.
Face
ID — Apple's
facial recognition system that replaces the fingerprint -
scanning Touch
ID — is simple to set up, with the iPhone X encouraging you to put your face into view at the start; spin your head around a couple of times and you're ready to go.
Other features that could debut this year include wireless charging, iris
scanning or
facial recognition, and a next - generation Touch
ID sensor embedded within the iPhone's display.
Killian Bell: I don't think Apple will replace Touch
ID with iris
scanning and
facial recognition just yet, despite what recent rumors have told us.
Expect Apple to do with
facial scanning what they did with Touch
ID.
Facial -
scan unlocking has been available on jailbroken iPhones for nearly five years, but we haven't seen it implemented in a way that's quicker or more secure than Touch
ID.
By using the front - facing camera, an infrared camera, a flood illuminator, and a dot projector, the iPhone X
scans your
facial features and creates a profile for Face
ID to recognize.
Similar to the way Touch
ID keeps your fingerprint
scan private and secure, a lot of work went into making sure that your
facial scan privacy is protected.
There have been reports that Apple's implementation of
facial scanning will be more secure than Touch
ID, in part because it captures more data points.
Face
ID is a
facial scanning system that Apple implemented into the iPhone X as a biometric identity replacement for Touch
ID.
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Earlier this year, it was reported that Apple was working to replace Touch
ID with 3D
facial scanning that could prove faster, easier and more secure than the fingerprint reader currently used for logins and payments.
The
facial scans the iPhone X use to authenticate through Face
ID are only stored within each device.
Thanks to Face
ID in the iPhone X, and the face
scanning and iris
scanning in Samsung's devices,
facial recognition is starting to gain momentum.
It is speculated that Apple has decided to dump its Touch
ID fingerprint
scanning system in favor of the usually more reliable
facial recognition technology.
The five models also include an Iris Scanner and offer
Facial Recognition, but the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus take it a step further by introducing «Intelligent
Scan,» which is a new biometric authentication feature that is Samsung's answer to Apple's Face
ID.
While the company did its best to pitch the iPhone 8 as a desirable option, featuring an enhanced glass design, superfast A11 Bionic processor, and new wireless charging, customers seem to be more interested in the iPhone X. Apple's iPhone X offers a boatload of enhancements, including an all - new design, the first OLED display from Apple, and a new
facial -
scanning feature called Face
ID.
Facial recognition is the obvious choice, and currently we have two very different implementations available: Samsung's iris
scanning on the Note 8, and Apple's Face
ID on the iPhone X.
It's not the same thing as using Iris
scanning on a Galaxy phone or Face
ID on an iPhone, and is simply using
facial recognition software --- the same
facial recognition you see in Google Photos.
A new Face Unlock feature is also here in a marketplace of other
facial recognition methods such as Apple's Face
ID and Samsung's limited iris
scanning capabilities.