How Apples New Face ID Works. Apple is rolling out facial recognition to unlock its new i. Phone X, as has been rumored for months and confirmed in leaks over the weekend. Its i. Phone day Read more Read. The technology builds on Touch ID and is called Face ID, of course. It uses a new selfie camera setup in the i. Phone 1. 0 called the True. Depth camera system. True. Start Small, Because You Might Hate It. If youve never worked from home before, going whole hog from the start might lead to disaster. If your office environment. Depth uses a set of sensors, cameras, and a dot projector to create an incredibly detailed 3. D map of your face. Face ID starts with an image of your face, but builds on top of it with the True. This is opulence. Suddenly, there is extra light blasting from behind my TV screen, making a dayglow title sequence positively atomic. The DreamScreen, a. Depths dot projector, which will invisibly project over 3. Math Activities For Math Week. We use the image and the dot pattern to push through neural networks to create a mathematical model of your face, Apples Phil Schiller explained. This facial map improves each time you look at your phone, and Apple says it will recognize you even if you change your hairstyle, wear glasses, or put on a hat. Apple says Face ID will require user attention to work, so if youre looking away or have your eyes closed, your phone wont unlock. Given Apples longtime emphasis on security, the team worked with special effects mask makers in Hollywood to make sure it would be difficult to spoof Face ID. Consumers who are squeamish about letting Apple map their face can rest a little easier knowing thatjust like with Touch IDtheir biometric data is never shipped back to Apple HQ and remains stored safely on their device. Face IDs facial recognition technology will build on Touch ID in several key ways. Just as Touch ID builds a 3. D model of your fingers ridges, Apples facial recognition will create a 3. D map of a users face, which should make it less susceptible to compromise contrast that with this researchers experience unlocking a Samsung device with a selfie. But unlike Touch ID, which requires you to place your finger on the sensor several times during setup, Face. ID only needs to scan your face once. Then youre good to go. For Touch ID, the false unlock rate was pretty damn good Touch. ID only had a 1 in 5. But Face ID is even better its only got a 1 in 1,0. Schiller said. However, Face ID can still mistake you for a relative, Schiller explained. The statistics are lower if the person shares a close genetic relationship with you, he said. So keep that fancy new i. Phone away from your evil twin.