I'm curious why, what does face unlock do for you that fingerprint doesn't?

If I'm unlocking my phone, I have my hands on my phone, so using my fingerprint isn't a hassle. Plus with COVID and needing to wear masks, I can still unlock my phone easily without needing to pull down my mask.

I got sweaty hands and that doesn't work with TouchID. FaceID has been great, well at least until COVID. I'd really prefer both.

Similar situation for me (but I have dry hands).

Fingerprint sensors stop recognizing after about a week - so I prefer Face Unlock.

Really surprised to hear this. I've had really bad luck with face unlock. I find I have to type in my PIN half the time anyway. On the other hand, with my previous pixel that had a fingerprint reader, I never had any issues with it whatsoever. I think face unlock is a bit of a regression on the part of device makers.

I have dry hands and fingeprint sensors stop recognizing them aftere about a week (or month if it is summer season) - so it is really frustrating.

On the other hand Face Unlock works always (well, unless I wear a mask, then it works just like fingeprint - doesn't).

Tried fingeprint sensors on iOS devices and Pixels.

Face Unlock has been an available feature on every Pixel for a while and is present in the latest Android 12 Beta, it's just not depth-sensing because it lacks the hardware that the Pixel 4 and iPhone use, just uses front-facing camera instead and warns you about using it.

Where are you getting this from? I have a Pixel 5. It doesn't have face unlock. Only the 4 did!

It was actually originally announced/demoed on a Galaxy Nexus running ICS back in 2011! They might have removed it at some point after that and added it again for the Pixel 4 since its entire gimmick was the soli sensor

https://www.theverge.com/2011/10/18/android-ice-cream-sandwi...

All the weak biometrics are disabled in banking apps etc, so you'll still need the fingerprint (or just the PIN code).

Ah thanks for the note.

If the under-display fingerprint reader actually works then I 100% prefer it over face unlock. Bonus points for not having an ugly notch on top.

I find face unlock amazing. The only situation that sucks is with the mask.

I think they could make it work even with masks. Just focus on the eye regions.

Apple worked on it, don't know if they released it with iPhone 13.