Can You Use iPhone X Without Face ID? Yes! Face ID Questions, Answered

Can You Use iPhone X Without Face ID? Yes! Face ID Questions, Answered

There are a lot of questions out there about using iPhone X and the new Face ID feature, which scans your face to unlock your iPhone X. Some people want to know if they can use iPhone X without Face ID, and without the iPhone X ever using facial recognition for unlocking the iPhone and performing other verification tasks, like paying with Apple Pay or authenticating other logins. Or perhaps youre wondering what you do instead if you choose not to setup Face ID. If you dont like the idea of Face ID or having your iPhone scanning your face for whatever reason, then youll be relieved to know the answer is yes, you an absolutely use the iPhone X without ever using Face ID, it is not required. You can absolutely use iPhone X without ever registering or scanning your face for any facial recognition purpose. Well aim to answer a few common questions about Face ID and iPhone X, if you have additional questions feel free to ask them in the comments below. No. If you do not want to use iPhone X with facial recognition then you can easily use iPhone X without ever registering a face with Face ID. Of course, without Face ID, you wont be able to unlock the iPhone X with a simple face scan and by looking at iPhone, instead you will need to use a passcode. More on that in a moment. Yes. You can skip the entire Face ID facial scanning process during the initial device setup, and instead rely entirely on a passcode entry to unlock and use the iPhone X. You can unlock iPhone X with a passcode like any other regular iPhone. To unlock iPhone X without Face ID, simply pick up the iPhone X, raise to wake, tap the screen, or press the power button. Then swipe up from the bottom of the screen. This brings up the passcode screen where you enter a passcode to unlock the iPhone X. This should be good news to those iPhone users who liked the old swipe to unlock gesture that used to exist before it was yanked from iOS, since iPhone X basically brings back swipe to unlock. Except, instead of swiping to the left, you swipe up from the bottom of the screen the same gesture you use to return to the Home screen of iPhone X. Yes, that is correct. By not using Face ID, you will regain a Slide to Unlock gesture on iPhone X. But the swipe to unlock gesture is a swipe up, rather than the old fashioned swipe-right. Yes. Even if you initially setup Face ID, you can later disable it if you choose to. You can either turn off Face ID completely, or you can with a variety of methods and tricks. Yes, even if you initially skip setup, you can configure and enable Face ID at any time on iPhone X through the Settings app Face ID & Passcode settings options. Yes. You can still make and send Animoji on iPhone X without using Face ID elsewhere. For the unfamiliar, Animoji uses the front facing camera to match your facial gestures with a little emoji-like onscreen character, via the Messages app. The result of Animoji is creating little short clips and recordings of your voice matched to a talking emoji character, like a talking poo emoji, a talking unicorn, bear, dog, cat, robot, etc. Aside from having no Face ID capabilities, not much. If you dont use Face ID then you will lose access to a few nice Face ID features allows, including: Remember there is no Touch ID on iPhone X, as Face ID is the biometric security replacement. Basically if you dont use Face ID then you will have to enter a passcode for authenticating, unlocking, confirming purchases, using Apple Pay and wallet, Apple Cash, downloading from iTunes and the App Store, and other features which require authentication. Yes, if they have the passcode to unlock your iPhone X. Or, assuming you do have Face ID enabled, if another person held your iPhone X up to your face while you are looking at the iPhone X, they could unlock it that way too since it would trigger Face ID and successfully scan you. You can , so if you are concerned about someone scanning your face without your permissions in some theoretical scenario, then you may want to understand how to temporarily turn off the feature. Many people who dont like the idea of Face ID are, understandably, concerned about privacy and security implications. Who or what has access to your Face ID data? How is the facial recognition data secured? Apple answer those questions and more at . In terms of privacy: Privacy is incredibly important to Apple. Face ID data including mathematical representations of your face is encrypted and protected by the Secure Enclave. This data will be refined and updated as you use Face ID to improve your experience, including when you successfully authenticate. Face ID will also update this data when it detects a close match but a passcode is subsequently entered to unlock the device. Face ID data doesnt leave your device and is never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else. The concerns about Face ID are similar to those surfaced when Touch ID was released some years ago. Apple goes to great lengths to say that your personal biometric data is secured and wont be shared with anyone, youre welcome to read their detailed Face ID page if you want to know more about how the technology works and how they protect your face data.