Is this unavoidable? I find this a little silly TBH. I have my phone placed on a charging dock pretty close to my face every day and this effectively ruins the autolock feature. I know for a fact that it's the FaceID doing this, because covering the front camera fixes the issue. Or perhaps it is the proximity sensor that I am actually covering? Not sure if iP 12 actually still has one.
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Autolock not working when iPhone (iOS 16) sees my face
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Just to be clear, there are two “attention” settings. It sounds like you might be confusing the two…
Require Attention for Face ID - Turning this off makes it so you don’t have to be looking directly at the screen for attention. Just looking ahead, eyes off to the side, or eyes closed will give the phone attention. (Turn this one off if your particular pair of sunglasses is giving you issues with Face ID.)
Attention Aware Features - Turn this off if you want your phone to autolock even if it still has attention.
So... If you have the first one off and the second one on, your phone is not going to autolock because it’ll think it has attention even if you aren’t looking directly at it. You’ll either want the first one on (and the second one on or off), so that it autolocks when you aren’t looking directly at the phone. Or turn the second one off if the first one is off, so that it’ll autolock even if it thinks it still has attention.