Face ID with glasses

Im a eye glass wearer half the time and find face recognition always fails always without my glasses. This is really frustrating.

Second, hands free requires a blue tooth device. Old phone could use speaker no issue without taking eyes off of road. Waving phone in front of face while driving very dangerous and illegal.

Ive requested apple allow a

second face. Ill just have to yet another gadget and buy a blue tooth speaker/mike. Earpieces sometimes get you ticketed too, for good reason.

This is all the information that Apple has released so far with Face ID. Read what they have to say. You can also checkout the iPhone User Guide, which should be updated when the iPhone X is released.

About Face ID advanced technology - Apple Support

http://help.apple.com/iphone/11/

I think the issue happens is without glasses i have to hold the phone 3” from face. This causes perspective camera see to be much different. For those severely nearsighted (over 10 Diaopters) and elderly this means face recognition does not work.

Also there is problem that Siri requires face recognition and eye stare at phone while driving. This is extremely unsafe!! The old thumb recognition allowed to keep eyes totally on road.

Should be option to allow voice siri to unlock while driving.

Ive discovered something. Turns out that what’s critical is holding phone same distance away from face as if wearing glasses. Now it works.

However still wish Apple would make option switch to allow voice recognition to allow Siri to work fully without unlocking phone with face recognition while driving.

You mean it may not be true for you. But for me, it certainly is. I wear glasses. I've opened my iPhone x with or without glasses, with different pairs of glasses, including sun glasses. The other iPhone X in our household is also used by a glass wearer who is having no issues whatsoever with or without glasses.

For those of us very near sighted and near or past 60, progressives might stop working as eyes just cannot focus fast and with depth and brain cannot deal with it. For vision above eye level progressives the focus is over corrected due to optical shape requirements and older eyes just cannot adjust. This scanning of eyes into upper part of lenses where eyes cannot focus causes eyestrain or neck strain and many doctors try to adjust prescription giving up distance clairity to advoid eyestrain. There is no perfect solution. Wearing a brim hat may help as eyes (actually brain) will not try to focus on brim when eyes naturally scan slightly up. Brim hat also help as chromatic dispersion (prism effect in lens) causes huge eyestrain or headaches as brain tries to map different colors to spacially the correct spot. Thats why changing glasses causes disorienting till brain remaps mess of colors eyes have to focus to across retina and in focus space. Brain is amazing but has limits!

Myself i had to give up on progressives 5 years ago and have separate single vision glasses for driving and computer work. Going to single vision allows me to comfortably slide glasses down nose for slightly closer viewing or take thrm off for reading tiny iphone screen.

Now that finally im getting habit of holding iphone 10 at arms length to face unlock though phone is way out of focus (something counter natural instinct), iphone face recognition is finally working.

This is not true. Without glasses I have no problem at all. With glasses FaceID will fail every second time. Initial scann was made with glasses.

Yes. Face ID will recognize you if you set it up not wearing glasses, and are now wearing glasses, and vice versa.

About Face ID advanced technology - Apple Support

Face ID automatically adapts to changes in your appearance, such as wearing cosmetic makeup or growing facial hair. If there is a more significant change in your appearance, like shaving a full beard, Face ID confirms your identity by using your passcode before it updates your face data. Face ID is designed to work with hats, scarves, glasses, contact lenses, and many sunglasses. Furthermore, it's designed to work indoors, outdoors, and even in total darkness.

iPhone X - Face ID - Apple

Face ID uses advanced machine learning to recognize changes in your appearance. Wear a hat. Grow a beard. Put on glasses. You can even use Face ID with many types of sunglasses. So even if your friends don’t recognize you, Face ID will.

It won't really make a difference. Reviewers have already posted videos of them wearing and then not wearing glasses and the phone recognized them either way. Now me personally, since I do wear glasses full time, I'm going to have my face scanned with glasses on when I set up my new phone. But it really won't matter either way.

I’m using the new iPhone X, and unfortunately I MUST wear my glasses to make it work. Every pair at progressive lenses I have ever bought are practically useless. Therefore, I always have to remove my glasses to read or do anything on my iPhone for more than a minute or two. I think I’m going to have to redo facial recognition without my glasses; and on the many occasions that I have my glasses on but need to quickly access my iPhone, such as at a cash register in store, while in public and wanting to see distance, I’ll have to slip them up above my forehead temporarily!

But your response gives me hope that I can find an answer to make it work better.

Face ID on my iPhone X has recognized me with my glasses on, which is how I set it up, and it has recognized me with my sunglasses on, my winter cap on, and also with a baseball cap. It has done remarkably well in low lighting in the car in the parking lot at work, and in a test I did in the dark at home. I'm quite amazed as to how well it works.

If you read mine, I've not had an issue either. Mine was set up with glasses on. Mine works with glasses on or off, regular or sun glasses, hat or no hat. I suggest you delete your Face ID and reset it. Set it up with or without your glasses on, and then try the other way to unlock. If it fails, then continue looking at the screen and use the passcode. That is how Face ID recognizes subtle changes in your looks and will then work better in the future if there are slight changes.

I'd have your optician redo your lenses. The whole point of progressive lenses is to be able to see clearly up close, mid-distance and far. Still, it shouldn't matter whether you wear your glasses or don't wear them for Face ID to open your phone. Maybe, when you set it up, you put the phone too close to your face. It records the best with your phone about an arms length from your face.

Like rbrylawski, I have an iPhone X, and I wear glasses. I've set up my device with my glasses on, but it doesn't matter whether I have them on or not, Face ID has always worked.

I also agree with his statement about your glasses. You say you have progressive lenses. I do as well, since I need the correction for closeup, mid-range, and distance, while my distance is the least correction. I've never had to remove my glasses to get Face ID to work, nor to be able to see anything either. As rbrylawski said, that is the whole purpose of progressive. I would take the time as well to remove your current Face ID and set it back up again.

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