Unfortunately not. We all were hoping! Maybe it requires a new version of Face ID, or it will be an update that comes when the new iPads do. But wouldn’t be surprised if it was one of the big changes for this years lineup only.
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Face ID in Landscape
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The matrix hardware is designed for vertical portrait mode.
The change from my digging is hardware and software.
Is the matrix projected perpendicular to the phones' screen or is it angled down?
It does however the current hardware design assumes vertical face to camera alignment. From my understanding, that is a hardware limitation.
If someone has found differently, please post.
It's angled down.
As a result, it's unlikely Face ID 1.0 hardware will ever support landscape mode.
Do people really have these issues? I keep reading here how people have lower success rates - and I wonder what angles are you trying to unlock from, because I literally have 100% success rate unless I put the phone really close to my face.
Mine is OK. Sometimes it will sit there and unlock when the passcode keys finally show up. And it is in the same angle that would typically unlock it immediately. So a Face ID 2.0 would not hurt or improved software scanning.
When testing the iPhone X for work and utilizing some suggestion from folk here, we found that with your face vertical, when the X tilts beyond 30 degrees (left or right) the accuracy to unlock starts dropping rapidly. The matrix expects vertical to vertical.
Actually find face ID quicker and more accurate but yes would love landscape FaceID!