Displaying items by tag: Face ID

Face ID the way Apple does it has not been available on Android, despite Huawei having tried to release such a system a few years ago, but now a true face authentication system that is certified for payments has arrived, with the killer capability of being able to work under the screen, so no notch is required!

Less than two weeks after iOS 15 arrived, an update to iOS 15.0.1 appeared over the weekend to fix a handful of bugs.

Apple enterprise management specialist Jamf has announced a series of new security capabilities.

If you use an iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV or Apple Watch, today's the day you can download shiny new OS updates that let you unlock an iPhone when wearing a mask with your Apple Watch, re-size iPad and iPhone app windows on an M1 Mac and much, much, MUCH more - plus 50 iOS security updates.

As was leaked on Twitter, Apple's iPhone 12 models are being launched on October 13, at 10am PDT at the Apple Park Campus, which is 4am AEDT October 14 in Australia - with four iPhone 12 models expected.

Australian customer-owned bank Heritage Bank has announced the integration of Apple Pay on its payment platform.

Westpac Bank is claiming an Australian first with the launch of Siri for Westpac, allowing its customers to make payments using voice technology.

The latest research expects plenty more handsets featuring facial recognition in 2018 alone, with the figure to grow to over a billion by 2020. 

Other smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S8 may have introduced facial recognition well before Apple, but Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller says all such systems "stink".

It's not just Westpac which has launched iPhone X Face ID compatibility while ignoring Apple Pay, the Commonwealth Bank says it was actually the first to do so on Friday.

Apple's newest biometric security feature, Face ID, has quickly been supported by Westpac with version 8.2 of its iOS app, but the Apple Pay delay continues its Groundhog Day.

With the vast majority of iPhone users only set to use Touch ID, and only those with iPhone X models after launch able to use Face ID, Juniper’s survey results seem odd, but they are what they are.

ABC Australia’s morning breakfast news programme was just talking about Apple’s Face ID on the iPhone X, and were saying very silly things.