My new iphone keeps asking me to “finish setting it up” by setting up the facial recognition part. I have no intention of doing so regardless of whether the data is “safe” or otherwise. Is there a way to stop it asking me to do this?
Here's how you can completely disable Face ID through the Settings app:
Turn off Face ID
> Face ID & Passcode.Here's how you can completely disable Face ID through the Settings app:
Turn off Face ID
> Face ID & Passcode.My issue is that it is insistent that I must do it in the first place with no opt out clause. It is at the end of the day it is a telephone - my telephone should not be demanding to know what I look like for whatever reason if I don’t want it to. Whilst I read the the data is only stored locally on my phone, I am too old and skeptical to take this on blind faith.
I know I am going to come across all old and trollish - this is not the case, I have always used Apple phones and pads with no issues. But his for me is a step too far. But I don’t want to make an issue of it so I apologise and appreciate your help. I am guessing the short answer to the original question is that it cannot be turned off to stop asking me to finish setting up the phone.
thanks for your help guys :)
For future reference for anyone else - if you begin the setup process and activate the camera and try with something that won’t work (I tried a teddy bear as one does in these situations) it finally gets exasperated and lets you try again later. The notification is gone, which is all I wanted in the first place…
Thanks again all
Older people (of which I am one) are not, as a class, trollish or ignorant of technology. Suggestions being old somehow means they are those things is a tad ageist.
It may be your phone but it's Apple's software. And, they don't want to do it the way you want. So, you both have that in common.
You can let Apple know your thoughts here:
Contact apple support:
Apologies I should have been more specific - I had already taken these steps after searching online. With it all off, the phone still wants me to finish setting it up.
Have you tried setting it up then deleting it?
Facial recognition feature
