Apple Introduces ‘Mask ID’ in iOS 14.5 – How Does It Work?

The End of a Frustrating iPhenomena

It’s only after the coronavirus pandemic arrived, iPhone (<X) users with Touch ID started boasting about their devices on one thing. ‘Unlocking’.

It has become a bugbear task of pulling down the mask for unlocking iPhone every single time. Uncompromising on safety, we use the passcode, and it takes a bit of time. Now, Apple resolves this issue, as the future technology needs to be virus-proof.

Firstly, How Does Face ID Work?

The dreaded, never-disappearing big-sized notch of the iPhone consists of the Speaker, Microphone, and the TrueDepth Camera System, of which Apple says three other little parts play in the role of Face ID unlocking. They are the Infrared camera, Flood illuminator, and the Dot projector.

When you set up your Face ID in your iPhone, the Flood illuminator first detects your face in front of it, even if it’s dark. The IR camera creates an IR image. The Dot projector projects over 30,000 invisible little IR dots. The IR image in the dot pattern are processed using Neural networks to…