Unlock Your iPhone with a Mask

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MacRumors offered a good article on unlocking your iPhone with a Mask:

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/unlock-iphone-face-mask/

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Nathan Parker wrote:

MacRumors offered a good article on unlocking your iPhone with a Mask:

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/unlock-iphone-face-mask/

Using iOS 13.4.5 beta 3 iPhone reverts to pin code entry when trying to unlock with mask on.

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I wonder if Apple will resolve that before the final release or if that’s the new change?

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Nathan Parker wrote:

I wonder if Apple will resolve that before the final release or if that’s the new change?

It is a new change which will come with iOS 13.5

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The main problem I have seen with my iPhone Xr is a complete and absolute mess when using the Walmart app particularly at the pharmacy where I pay for the prescription in the app when at home and then am able to avoid a long line at the pharmacy (using Mobile Express Pharmacy) and breeze right past the line and quickly get the prescription. However, now Face ID asks over and over and over and, at the same time, Walmart pin is asked for over and over. It’s HORRIBLE and it used to be fine…before the mask requirement.

So, last night, I tried adding a second alternate appearance by holding the mask over one half of my face. That seemed to have zero effect until this morning (probably because you need to shut the phone off for an alternate identity to take effect. I shut it down at bedtime). This morning, at home, with no mask, I tried to open Barclay’s app. Barclays told me it had detected changes to Face ID and that I would need to manually enter my password and then reset Face ID. Being a bank, I have a complicated password and the Barclay app is the worst of the banking apps I have as it has extremely tiny font in gray (not black) and it is almost impossible to see what I enter. Plus, the app was not showing the current entry on the keyboard except as a black dot! I had to try repeatedly before I finally got it right.

I had the same problems with Discover, Chase and others but they handled my having to type the password and reinstate Face ID a little better. Interestingly, I have not encountered problems with the non banking apps that use Face ID. What is even more interesting and FRUSTRATING is that my alternate identity is NOT recognized by iPhone. UGH. So, I am not sure what the banks saw regarding changes to Face ID when iPhone itself sees no changes. (I tried putting on the mask and iPhone Face ID did not recognize the alternate identity).

Plus, Walmart app is now completely messed up. It asked me, a few minutes ago, for my Walmart pin when I tried to access the Pharmacy and it says its the wrong pin!! It is not. It is correct (and I can enter it at Walmart Pharmacy website on my computer and it works but I cannot pay for it and then later breeze past the long line to pick it up as that requires the mobile app). DOUBLE UGH. If I didn’t have all my prescriptions there (for 20 years), I would just avoid Walmart, if possible, until the order to wear a mask in all businesses is lifted but I can’t do that. What is even more frustrating is that ONLY in Walmart am I unable to use my iWatch 6 for Apple Pay for purchases. That function on my watch was not working earlier this year in any store and I complained to the stores and to Apple and it has been working now for several weeks (and I LOVE it)!

Because there is no physical receipt when using the Walmart app in iPhone for store purchases and/or prescriptions it is no touch anything which is wonderful and no fumbling for the physical receipt when you leave Walmart to show to the door checker as I just show the barcode on the phone to the checker. So, it was the safest place to shop before masks were required as all other stores then and now hand me a physical receipt and make me touch the keypad even if using the iPhone or iWatch for the purchase.

So, I wish I had not tried adding an alternate appearance (which I don’t know how to remove and I don’t want to do Face ID over again from total scratch as my phone has LEARNED over time about my face and I don’t want to have to go through all that protracted learning again especially in Target). But from what I have read, the “fix” coming in iOS 13.5 helps a bit but only a BIT and I doubt would help with Walmart and the repeated (at any register…not just pharmacy) requests for Face ID and Walmart PIN and they actually trip over each other with the requests.

In retrospect, Apple should have retained fingerprint ID in iPhone 10 and above as a backup that could be activated in a situation like this. I have a friend with iPhone 7 and she isn’t having any problems. She doesn’t fight with her phone like I am forced to do every day now.

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requests for Face ID and Walmart PIN and they actually trip over each other with the requests.

I don’t understand the situation. Just pull down the mask for a second for FaceID to work.
I don’t suppose your are you are wearing the mask while on phone calls.

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Except that you should not touch the mask once on, except to take it off and wash / throw it away.

cheers, Paul

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So, you go in Walmart, at the pharmacy, or a regular checkout lane, and the employee actually lets you pull down your mask? Geez. Why does your state even require masks then? That’s ILLEGAL to pull them down! The store would get in trouble and someone would call the police. Besides, not only does the phone itself use Face ID but the Walmart app uses it (and also requires a pin be entered in some instances especially at the pharmacy as Walmart actually does protect your medical identity which is not true for CVS in particular) so you would have to keep it pulled down for a lot more a couple of seconds and the cashier would be completely within their rights to ask you to immediately put the mask back up and use another method to pay. Of course, with Mobile Express Pharmacy, you MUST use your phone at the special Mobile Express terminal at the Walmart pharmacy to scan the bar code and have your phone connect to the terminal so the pharmacy employee can then complete the transaction and hand you the prescription.

Besides, you should not touch the mask after putting it on until ready to take off when you are home, and put immediately into the washing machine. (I am not in health care so there is no way to get disposable ones). As for phone calls, I ALWAYS use speakerphone (I have zero interest in getting brain or neck cancer). If I get a call (while in a place of business) that I feel needs privacy, I let my YouMail app manage it.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/05/10/no-face-mask-no-ride-man-arrested-striking-bus-driver-door-with-crutch/

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I’m not seeing the entire point of masks in general. So far I’ve done the bulk of my shopping at places that don’t require them since I’m not seeing the benefit of wearing one if the moment you touch it you contaminate more in the process. Some of the “precautions” put in place seem to be offering a counter-productive result.

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Masks are a good way to limit your spread of any virus you may have. They do not prevent you getting it from others as there are other ways for it to get into your system.
Touching the mask once on moves any virus from the mask to your hands and then to other things.

cheers, Paul

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Good points. I’m going to do the antibody test for Coronavirus since I had many of the symptoms back in March (I stayed home the entire time when I did). If it turns out I had it, it wasn’t fun, but I’ve had worse. Swine Flu hit me worse if it turns out I had Coronavirus.

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