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Can Face ID work on an iPad generation 9?

Can Face ID work on an iPad generation 9?

iPad, iPadOS 15

Posted on Sep 19, 2022 6:43 AM

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Sep 20, 2022 3:33 AM in response to daveshrader

daveshrader wrote:

Can Face ID work on an iPad generation 9?


No. This is fundamentally not possible. For the benefit of clarity, your iPad9 lacks most (if not all) of the required hardware elements necessary to use FaceID.


iPad models supporting FaceID, such as recent models of iPad Pro, have a FaceID sensor (consisting of sensor array of three principal components - an Infrared Dot Projector, IR Flood Illuminator and TrueDepth Camera) - this sensor being absent from iPad models that support TouchID. FaceID also has dependency upon the iPad SoC/CPU for support.


More information about technical aspects of Apple’s FaceID technology can be found here:

About Face ID advanced technology - Apple Support

Sep 20, 2022 2:56 AM in response to daveshrader

No.

There isn't.

Your iPad lacks the the True Depth Face ID front camera hardware and software that is needed for Face ID to work.


Sorry, but this will never happen for your basic, base model iPad.


ONLY the newest and more expensive iPad Pro models have the True Depth, FaceID front camera hardware and software needed for FaceID to work with those iPad models.


Sorry.

Can Face ID work on an iPad generation 9?

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