Face ID not recognizing new glasses on iPhone

I have glasses, tinted, polarized, IR Blockers, that all work with my FaceID. Just purchased new glasses and it doesn’t work now. Tried resetting my FaceID but it says my face is obstructed or just won’t recognize my face. Tried adding glasses and it won’t recognize my face, as soon as I remove the glasses it says I don’t have glasses on. Can someone please help? Thinking about moving to android just because of this now. 😔


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Original Title: Adding Glasses - FaceID

iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 26

Posted on Nov 18, 2025 6:06 AM

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Nov 18, 2025 6:24 AM in response to Sreyb111

Is it just those particular glasses? If yes then my thought is there must be some characteristic about them that is simply beyond the level of technology capable of distinguishing sufficient features for FaceID to work with those particular glasses. One solution (I know you won't like this) would be to program FaceID without you wearing glasses and to remove them when trying to use FaceID. Or simply don't use FaceID at all.


Threatening to switch to Android doesn't really carry any weight on this forum. We are just regular everyday Apple products users trying to help other Apple products users like ourself. If you do want to switch to Android I would first ascertain that it can do any better with those glasses.

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