Apple Testing New Feature That Allows Masked iPhone Owners to Unlock Device Using Face ID

Apple Testing New Feature That Allows Masked iPhone Owners to Unlock Device Using Face ID
A customer holds the iPhone X during the global launch of the new Apple product in central Sydney, Australia, on Nov. 3, 2017. David Gray/Reuters
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Apple is testing a new feature that will allow iPhone owners to unlock their device using Face ID even while wearing a mask, according to tech YouTuber Brandon Butch.

The feature is part of Apple’s new set of beta trials for the next version of its operating system called iOS 15.4 and comes nearly two years after masks were first introduced in the United States in an effort to lessen the transmission of COVID-19.

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