If you have a spare thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket you might be tempted to purchase Apple’s latest smartphone, the iPhone X.
The new device comes with a bigger screen than the previous regular incarnation of the iPhone and an improved camera, but what many people are excited about is that Apple has moved from fingerprint-based Touch ID to a new facial recognition system.
But is Apple’s Face ID really as secure as we’re told?
If you believe Apple’s marketing material it seems clear that one technology is better than the other:
“The probability that a random person in the population could look at your iPhone X and unlock it using Face ID is approximately 1 in 1,000,000 (versus 1 in 50,000 for Touch ID).”
But things may not be quite that clean-cut.
The following YouTube video shows how, in one family at least, Face ID is falling short in terms of security.
In the video Sana Sherwani shows how her ten-year-old son Ammar Malik is able to access her locked iPhone X, just by looking at it.
As Wired describes, a split second after Malik looked at his mother’s iPhone X it was unlocked.
