Change the Face ID Settings to Prevent Anyone Access to Your iPhone

The innovations in iPhones keep adding enhanced and advanced privacy features. For instance, the setting in which one can hide their IP address when an email is being sent. Thus, safeguarding users from being tracked by nasty advertisers. 

One such advanced security feature that Apple has come up with is its renowned face ID. But is it really as secure as Apple claims it to be? 

Your Face ID is Vulnerable Unless You Change This Setting 

Initially, Apple’s Face ID utilizes its TrueDepth camera, capturing facial data with incredible accuracy by projecting and analyzing thousands of invisible dots. It creates a map of all your creases and wrinkles and saves that information as a code to unlock your phone. 

Additionally, Face ID automatically adjusts to the development (if any) that may have gone through the look, like when you wear makeup or grow facial hair. Face ID uses your passcode to verify your identity when there has been a more significant change to your look, such as removing your beard, before updating your face data. 

Hats, scarves, glasses, contact lenses, face masks, sunglasses, and other headwear are all compatible with Face ID. According to Apple, the odds of someone else’s face unlocking your iPhone are one in a million. 

What About Your Face? 

One of the common and obvious concerns is: what if someone unlocks your phone by holding

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