iPhone 13 pro Face Id

ShortWarning · 5 Oct 2021 at 09:19

Rooky007 said:
cant understand it. Wonder if doing a erase and set up again on the phone phone help

I restored my phone from my 11 pro and it reset the face id anyway. Sounds like you may have a faulty phone.

Rooky007 · 5 Oct 2021 at 09:23

ShortWarning said:
I restored my phone from my 11 pro and it reset the face id anyway. Sounds like you may have a faulty phone.

Have you a screen protector.
I am seeing people saying it effecting the 13 pro if there a smudge where sensor are

ShortWarning · 5 Oct 2021 at 09:40

Rooky007 said:
Have you a screen protector.
I am seeing people saying it effecting the 13 pro if there a smudge where sensor are

I don't. I had one one my 11 pro but it didn't cover the front camera.

OverDrive · 5 Oct 2021 at 11:36

The FaceID on my 13 Pro Max is very slightly less reliable than on my 12 Pro Max. I’m going to give it a little more time to ‘learn’ though.

Rooky007 · 5 Oct 2021 at 11:49

OverDrive said:
The FaceID on my 13 Pro Max is very slightly less reliable than on my 12 Pro Max. I’m going to give it a little more time to ‘learn’ though.

Out of interest have you a screen protector?

OverDrive · 5 Oct 2021 at 22:39

Rooky007 said:
Out of interest have you a screen protector?

I do, i'm using the Spigen EZ Fit tempered glass protector. I have always found them to be the best. It’s definitely not that though, as the protector goes around the camera/FaceID module perfectly.

I actually reset FaceID and did the scans again, holding the phone in a more natural position the second time and it now seems to be working as it should. I think I may have held it a little too far away when I did the initial scans.

Rooky007 · 6 Oct 2021 at 07:25

OverDrive said:
I do, i'm using the Spigen EZ Fit tempered glass protector. I have always found them to be the best. It’s definitely not that though, as the protector goes around the camera/FaceID module perfectly.

I actually reset FaceID and did the scans again, holding the phone in a more natural position the second time and it now seems to be working as it should. I think I may have held it a little too far away when I did the initial scans.

funny enough I discover yesterday the Face ID works at the distance we set up at better. Whilst in the past it didn’t matter. As I tried my wife 12 pro which was mine and it works what ever distance. So the changes Apple made to make the notch smaller had effect it

OverDrive · 6 Oct 2021 at 07:55

Rooky007 said:
funny enough I discover yesterday the Face ID works at the distance we set up at better. Whilst in the past it didn’t matter. As I tried my wife 12 pro which was mine and it works what ever distance. So the changes Apple made to make the notch smaller had effect it

I agree, it does seem slightly more distance sensitive than previous FaceID models. I’ve actually had them all: X, XS Max, XR (current work phone), 11 Pro Max, 12 Pro Max. The flood illuminator and dot projector are now in a single module.

Rooky007 · 6 Oct 2021 at 08:04

OverDrive said:
I agree, it does seem slightly more distance sensitive than previous FaceID models. I’ve actually had them all: X, XS Max, XR (current work phone), 11 Pro Max, 12 Pro Max. The flood illuminator and dot projector are now in a single module.

Personally I think it a bad move

Vertigo · 6 Oct 2021 at 14:29

Rooky007 said:
Personally I think it a bad move

Blame all the morons foaming at the mouth over the size of the 'notch' for that one.

Rooky007 · 6 Oct 2021 at 14:31

Vertigo1 said:
Blame all the morons foaming at the mouth over the size of the 'notch' for that one.

Yup

Combat squirrel · 8 Oct 2021 at 15:10

I'm now finding my 13 pro is noticeably better Face ID than my old Xs ? Its super fast/quick, in fact its unlocked well off to my right or left, alarmingly so ! :cry:

It's interesting people are having the opposite issue.

Feek · 9 Oct 2021 at 10:43

Rooky007 said:
funny enough I discover yesterday the Face ID works at the distance we set up at better. Whilst in the past it didn’t matter. As I tried my wife 12 pro which was mine and it works what ever distance. So the changes Apple made to make the notch smaller had effect it

Perhaps you have a faulty phone.

Rooky007 · 9 Oct 2021 at 11:22

Seem to be ok now took screen protector off

OverDrive · 9 Oct 2021 at 20:43

I wonder how necessary screen protectors are now with ‘Ceramic Shield’?

The last iPhone I used without a protector was my 6 Plus and after a year it did have some very fine hairline scratches in the display that you could only see when the display was off and if you held the phone under light. And that was with me being very careful.. not putting phone in same pocket as keys etc. Since then I’ve always used a glass protector. I think the scratches were in the oleophobic coating. I don’t want to risk not using one now.

Feek · 9 Oct 2021 at 21:58

OverDrive said:
I wonder how necessary screen protectors are now with ‘Ceramic Shield’?

I forget the last time I had a screen protector on aniPhone.

Biggest laugh I had for years was when some muppet on these forums commented that Apple are too cheap to use gorilla glass.

pioneer2000 · 11 Oct 2021 at 07:34

The problem isn’t the shattering though, it’s the scratches. Without a screen protector they get ruined with fine scratches everywhere.

Rooky007 · 11 Oct 2021 at 07:53

pioneer2000 said:
The problem isn’t the shattering though, it’s the scratches. Without a screen protector they get ruined with fine scratches everywhere.

i have ordered a screen protector from
Amazon that says it for the 13 pro just to see if it makes any difference to my 12 pro. In case they was altered for the camera but can’t see that.

Feek · 12 Oct 2021 at 12:50

pioneer2000 said:
Without a screen protector they get ruined with fine scratches everywhere.

/me looks at scratch free phone
:confused:

Mobius 1 · 13 Oct 2021 at 16:25

Feek said:
/me looks at scratch free phone

Same. I’ve never used one

and never will.