I'm not overrating it at all, just describing how I find it. When my phone is on my desk, it's on a charging cradle so it's facing me. I look at it, reach out, tap and swipe up and it's open. Every time, every single time.
It's not supposed to work if you're looking away.
It works in the utter pitch dark. I've picked my phone up in bed in the middle of the night in a room with blackout curtains and it works. Again, every time. If it doesn't work when you're in bed then there's a very good chance that you're holding it too close to your face - I speak from experience here, when I first got a phone with FaceID, I'd pick up my phone in bed and try and use FaceID but it'd fail. I figured out pretty quickly that's because I was holding it too close. Just move it a fraction further away so it can actually scan all your face and it works.
