Say what Face ID protects
What your face unlocks, and what it never hands over.
Face ID unlocks the phone and approves payments by checking your face against a pattern kept on the phone.
The pattern never leaves the phone and is not a picture. Your passcode works when the check fails.
Key points
- Face ID checks your face against a pattern kept on the phone
- The passcode always works when the face check does not
What to remember
- You choose which jobs your face is allowed to do.
- The passcode is always there behind your face.
Try this
On your own iPhone open Settings, then Face ID and Passcode, and read what it unlocks.
Practice: Say what Face ID protects. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.