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My Face Unlocks My Brothers X
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Well the counterpoint to this is that close siblings and identical twins are far more likely to be around your phone.
So while fingerprints may only have been a 1-in-50,000 chance, that is across a random selection of the population
It did it the first time I picked the phone up! Firstly it entered a password into a field from the keychain and we thought it was a bug but then a bit later we realised I could unlock the phone every time. And now it’s basically mine.
This is what I am curious about. Is it still unlocking for your face? Apple said it adapts and gets better over time. I would be interested to know if it stops working for you/him in a few hours or days.
That's so interesting
Since you two look so similar to eachother my guess is that it really adapted to your face after only one passcode since the differences between you two are so small
Did you try resetting face-id and check if you can get in immediately or if you need to enter passcode once before it adapts?
It’s currently still working, will try and get a video of some sort tomorrow if it’s still happening - is it worth doing do you think?
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That's so interesting
Since you two look so similar to eachother my guess is that it really adapted to your face after only one passcode since the differences between you two are so small
Did you try resetting face-id and check if you can get in immediately or if you need to enter passcode once before it adapts?
Will reset it tomorrow and see if the false entry is still occurring.
Right.... I like how everyone is making a joke about this, but another post on the first page I think said that his brother could open his too, and they aren't that close. So the question will be, how close do you have to be for it to work?
My thoughts exactly. Could it be that twins will always be able to unlock each other’s devices?
NO, you guys dont look like twins but indeed close. There are clear differences that can be seen and its pretty sad this "revolutionary" camera cant figure it out with 30,000 dots mapped on a face.
Apple will be rolling out the iLift add-on shortly, $499.
Seem to recall reading somewhere that FaceID is an ever-learning system, in that it is updating itself with each scan of the face, to adapt to, say, face puffiness, for example. Can see OP triggering the unlock. Where it will be interesting is to hear if siblings can unlock a phone after a month or more of usage (ie. FaceID has trained itself well enough that similar sib features are not a false positive).
It would be really bad if pointing the iPhone X at my butt also unlocks it.
That’s a great question.Apple will be rolling out the iLift add-on shortly, $499.
Seem to recall reading somewhere that FaceID is an ever-learning system, in that it is updating itself with each scan of the face, to adapt to, say, face puffiness, for example. Can see OP triggering the unlock. Where it will be interesting is to hear if siblings can unlock a phone after a month or more of usage (ie. FaceID has trained itself well enough that similar sib features are not a false positive).
Apple will be rolling out the iLift add-on shortly, $499.
Seem to recall reading somewhere that FaceID is an ever-learning system, in that it is updating itself with each scan of the face, to adapt to, say, face puffiness, for example. Can see OP triggering the unlock. Where it will be interesting is to hear if siblings can unlock a phone after a month or more of usage (ie. FaceID has trained itself well enough that similar sib features are not a false positive).
That’s hilarious mate haha
You are right about that. My company might disable FaceID. The ironic thing is that it is relatively easy to fool fingerprint ID systems.
Completely different between you and your brother.
Look at the position of your ears relative to your eyes and nose. Compare that to your brother. Entirely different.
I'm surprised Face ID didn't pick it up. There's a reason why training Face ID makes you rotate your head. Most facial recognition software relies on pupil distance, nose bridge width, and ear height.
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If I would have had a drink in my mouth it would have been all over this keyboard on this one! Too funny!
Hopefully this is something that can be addressed with software, if it does appear to be more widespread.
This just seems like an elaborate way to show off how hot you guys are lol