Mom's iPhone X unlocked via FaceID by son
Tim Cook joked that
the new FaceID of iPhone X can be unlocked by your twin. But it turns out that
your kids can unlock it too. That’s what the Malik family found out when
10-year old Ammar unlocked his mom’s iPhone with no issues at all.
And he didn’t even
need a fancy 3D printed mask as some security researchers have used to get past
Apple’s new biometric security. He has his mom’s genes and that proved enough.
Here, watch the mother and son team do a demo:
Apple claims that the chance of a random person unlocking the iPhone X via FaceID is 1 in 1,000,000, compared to 1 in 50,000 for TouchID. That may be true for a random person, but family members obviously have a much higher chance.
Friends of the Malik family say that Ammar
looks more like his father though FaceID doesn’t think so – he can unlock his
mom’s iPhone X but not his dad’s.
Anyway, it seems that you need to be careful
when first setting up FaceID. Doing it indoor at night can mess with the
accuracy. When the mom set up FaceID again (in good light this time), Ammar was
no longer able to fool the phone.
Earlier, a pair of brothers posted a video of
them fooling FaceID but the issue in that case proved to be the PIN – one
sibling knew his brother’s PIN and used it to unlock the phone a few times.
Each time you unlock the phone with a PIN, FaceID recalibrates so eventually it
learned both their faces.
The Maliks claim this is not the case with
them as Ammar doesn’t know his mom’s PIN.
Source: gsmarena
