Face ID use on your iPhone or iPad Pro

You may be invited to enter the password associated with your Apple identifier during your first purchase in the iTunes Store, the App Store or the bookstore.

iPhone X: how does Apple ID work work ?

With Face ID, Apple wants to make facial recognition one of the main iPhone X security systems. To make this biometric tool as efficient as it is safe, the brand has managed to integrate advanced hardware and software technologies in its new smartphone. Explanation.

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The iPhone iPhone X is the smartphone with which Apple marks the ten years of its mobile phone that has revolutionized the market. Very innovative, the iPhone X seeks to establish new technological trends for years to come. In addition to augmented reality augmented reality on which Apple puts more than virtual reality virtual reality, biometrics biometrics takes on an unprecedented dimension with Face Id Face .

This application of facial recognition application replaces the Digital Footprints Reading System Touch ID. This biometric technology is not a novelty in itself. Samsung played precursors by integrating it into the Galaxy S8 and Note 8. But its reliability was quickly taken in default, a simple photograph sufficient to lure the recognition system. For his defense, Samsung stresses that this option is by no means a biometric tool to secure access to a contactless payment system or content placed in a protected folder.

Conversely, Apple has made Face ID the central security system of the iPhone X, to unlock the smartphone smartphone and set purchases via Its Apple Pay service. To reach the necessary level of reliability, the apple brand has gone much further than its competitors in terms of facial recognition.

The different sensors that make up the TrueDepth camera which achieves in real time a 3D map of the face. © Apple

IPhone X and TrueDepth Technology

Face ID is based on technology called TrueDepth which brings together several sensors sensors located on the front of the device. First there is a projector projector that diffuses more than 30.000 invisible points on the user’s face. These points are read by an infrared infrared camera seconded by light infrared light so that the system can operate in the dark . TrueDepth develops in real time a 3D modeling modeling of the face which is analyzed by the processor A11 Bionic of the smartphone. He incorporates a dedicated calculation chip, the neural engine, which serves applications using artificial intelligence artificial intelligence .

It is the latter who is responsible for validating the identity of the person with each facial modeling, by comparing the 3D image with the digitization initial digitization. The Galaxy S8 facial recognition system is content to use the front camera to compare the face image with a reference photo. Face ID is also sensitive to the attention of the user. If it does not fix the camera with open eyes, the identification will not work. A measure intended to prevent, for example, that we activate Face ID using a photo or a mask. The cherry cherry on the cake is that authentication authentication takes only a few milliseconds.

Secure ENCLAVE figure and stores biometric data in the iPhone X

All information relating to facial mapping is processed directly in the smartphone, encrypted and stored in a secure chip called Secure Enclave. No data is transmitted to an online server server. Furthermore, according to Apple, artificial intelligence at the heart of the front id is able to learn to recognize us even if our face evolves (beard, haircut, glasses, makeup. ) or if we wear a hat or a hat.

According to the manufacturer, there is only one chance out of a million to be able to deceive against ID against one in 50 chance.000 with a fingerprint reader. The fact remains that we will still have to wait for the release of the iPhone X in early November to find out how truthful this assertion is. What about twins for example ? And it is a safe bet that many security specialists will tackle the slightest flaw .

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Face ID use on your iPhone or iPad Pro

Face ID allows you, in complete safety, to unlock your iPhone or iPad, to authenticate your purchases, to connect to apps and much more, all a simple look.

• Configure Face ID
• Unlock your iPhone or iPad with Face ID
• Purchases with Face ID
• Connect with Face ID

Configure Face ID

Make sure nothing covers the TrueDepth or your face camera. If your nose or your mouth are hidden (for example, by glasses or a mask), you may be invited to temporarily remove these accessories during the configuration.

It is possible to use Face ID with a facial mask with the iPhone 12 or a subsequent model equipped with iOS 15.4 or a later version. Facing ID operation is optimal when your iPhone or iPad is between 25 and 50 cm from your face.

To configure Face ID, proceed as follows:

1. Access adjustments, then touch Face ID and Code. If you are invited, enter your access code. If you have not configured any access code, you will be invited to create one, which will check your identity.
2. Touch Configure Face ID.
3. Hold your device in portrait orientation, position your face in front of your device, then touch Start.
4. Place your face in the frame, then gently move your head to complete the circle. If you cannot move your head, touch accessibility options.
5. Once the first analysis in front of ID is finished, touch continue.
6. Slowly move your head to complete the circle a second time.
7. Touch.

To choose the features with which to use Face ID or to reset face ID, access settings, then touch Face ID and code.

You cannot use Face ID in landscape mode when the Face ID functionality with a mask is activated.

Unlock your iPhone or iPad with Face ID

1. Raise your iPhone or iPad or touch its screen to reactivate it.
2. Make a swipe up from the bottom of the locking screen.
3. If you use an iPhone, hold it in portrait orientation, then watch it.

With an iPad or an iPhone 12 (or a later model), you can hold the device in portrait or landscape mode. If it is in landscape mode, check that your finger does not cover the TrueDepth camera. Then look at the screen. If a mask covers your mouth and your nose, you will be invited to enter your code after swept the screen upwards.

To activate or deactivate this functionality, access settings. Touch Face ID and Code, then unlock the iPhone or unlock the iPad.

Purchases with Face ID

Face ID allows you to authenticate in order to make purchases with Apple Pay and in the iTunes Store, the App Store and the Apple Books bookseller.

Use Face ID with Apple Pay

To make a purchase in a store:

1. Make sure to use an iPhone.
2. Make sure that Apple Pay is well configured and activated in settings> Face ID and code.
3. To use your default card, press the side button twice. To use another card, press the side button twice, touch your default card, then select another card.
4. Look at your iPhone to authenticate yourself using Face ID. If you wear a facial mask that covers your mouth and nose, but the Face ID function with a mask has not been configured, touch to pay with the code and enter your access code instead.
5. Present the top of your iPhone near the contactless reader.
6. Wait until the mention OK and a checkout appear on the screen.

To make a purchase within an app or on a website in Safari:

1. Tap the Buy with Apple Pay button or select Apple Pay as payment method. Check your payment information. To choose another payment card, touch the following button> next to it.
2. Press the side button twice, then look at your iPhone or iPad.
3. Wait until the mention OK and a checkout appear on the screen.

Use Face ID in iTunes Store, App Store and Apple Books bookseller

To make purchases using the front ID in the iTunes Store, the App Store and the bookstore, go to settings> Face ID and Code, then check that the iTunes Store and App Store option is activated. Then proceed as follows:

1. Open the iTunes Store, the App Store or the bookstore, then touch an item you want to buy.
2. When you are invited to pay your purchase, press the side button twice, then look at your iPhone or iPad. If you wear a mask that covers your mouth and nose, but you have not configured the Face ID function with a mask, touch to pay with the code and enter your code.
3. Wait until the mention OK and a checkout appear on the screen.

You may be invited to enter the password associated with your Apple identifier during your first purchase in the iTunes Store, the App Store or the bookstore.

Connect with Face ID

Face ID allows you to connect to certain apps, and pre -fulfill your user names and passwords on websites in Safari.

Connection to apps

Thanks to Face ID, you can connect to apps compatible with identification using Touch ID:

1. Open the app and touch connect.
2. If you are invited, allow the app to use your username or password.
3. Look at your iPhone or iPad to connect.

In order to consult and control the apps using ID to connect, go to settings> Face ID and Code, then touch other apps.

If you use an app compatible with Face ID, but you are not invited to use Face ID to connect, you may first have to log in to the app first.

Automatic filling of the password field in Safari

FACE ID allows you to prepare your user names and passwords saved on the websites in Safari:

1. Access Settings> Face ID and Code, then activate the PREREMPLLING PASS WORDS.
2. Open Safari and go to a website.
3. Touch the connection field. If your username or password is displayed above the keyboard, touch it.
4. Look at your iPhone or iPad to prepare your username and password.