Richard Lai / Engadget
During the epidemic, you need to wear a mask when going out. Although everyone’s appearance has been improved appropriately, it has increased the difficulty of identifying people on the street. If you want to unlock your iPhone, it is even more difficult, or you need to have With the help of Apple Watch, or you have to enter the password, or even take off the mask secretly, many people miss Touch ID. In the latest iOS 15.4 beta, Apple actually added the function of directly unlocking Face ID while wearing a mask, even the Apple Watch is not needed.
According to Apple, Face ID is most accurate when it scans the entire face, but when unlocked while wearing a mask, Face ID works by identifying features near the eyes. Such a statement also seems to imply the feeling that such Face ID security will also be compromised.
In any case, friends who have already installed iOS 15.4 on the iPhone, you can already go to the “Face ID and Password” setting page to activate the function of unlocking with a mask. At present, the known limitation of using Face ID is that it cannot be unlocked while wearing sunglasses at the same time (it is too well covered? Is it a star?), but ordinary glasses are still ok.
In iOS15.4 beta, adding a memo to the iCloud key ring is also added, and you can also directly recognize and copy text in the camera of the memo and reminders app. Then there’s the adaptive trigger that supports the PS5 DualSense handle, the EU’s vaccine record in the wallet app, the Apple Card gadget, and a new batch of emoji.
Finally, in iPadOS 15.4 beta, there is keyboard backlight brightness control, and the most important, much-anticipated, and multiple-delayed “universal control” function, allowing users to operate multiple Macs on one set of mouse and keyboard and iPad. However, whether this feature will appear in the official version depends on the stability of this beta.