{"id":8305,"date":"2022-04-01T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2022-04-01T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:00:13","slug":"use-face-id-while-wearing-a-mask-in-ios-15-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/use-face-id-while-wearing-a-mask-in-ios-15-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Face ID While Wearing a Mask in iOS 15.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Apple made it so your Apple Watch could unlock your Face ID-enabled iPhone when you were wearing a mask. Starting in iOS 15.4, the company has taken the next step and enabled Face ID on the iPhone 12 and later to work <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even when you\u2019re wearing a mask<\/a>. If you didn\u2019t already set up Face ID with a mask after updating to iOS 15.4, go to Settings &gt; Face ID &amp; Passcode and enable Face ID with a Mask. You\u2019ll have to run through the Face ID training sequence again, and more than once if you sometimes wear glasses, but it\u2019s quick and easy. Face ID may not work quite as well when you\u2019re wearing a mask, and it doesn\u2019t support sunglasses, but it\u2019s way better than having to enter your passcode whenever you\u2019re masked.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9085\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/use-face-id-while-wearing-a-mask-in-ios-15-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"604\"><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by iStock.com\/Prostock-Studio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Apple made it so your Apple Watch could unlock your Face ID-enabled iPhone when you were wearing a mask. Starting in iOS 15.4, the company has taken the next step and enabled Face ID on the iPhone 12 and later to work even when you\u2019re wearing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,8,112,185,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-iphone","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8321,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}