{"id":28579,"date":"2020-04-08T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28579"},"modified":"2020-04-24T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:50:31","slug":"masks-and-face-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/08\/masks-and-face-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks and Face ID"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It’s nonsense to argue about the fact that wearing a mask — even a homemade one — is less than 100 percent effective. Nothing is 100 percent effective, and all evidence suggests that masks are, at the very least, quite<\/em> effective<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Maciej Ceglowski<\/a> (tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n

I want to persuade you not just to wear a mask, but to go beyond the new CDC guidelines and help make mask wearing a social norm. That means always wearing a mask when you go out in public, and becoming a pest and nuisance to the people in your life until they do the same.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Masks are in short supply, but you can MacGuyver one out of practically anything, including paper towels, cotton, vaccum cleaner bags. Expect the number of online tutorials to proliferate. Here are some I am partial to[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Tim Cook<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple is dedicated to supporting the worldwide response to COVID-19. We’ve now sourced over 20M masks through our supply chain. Our design, engineering, operations and packaging teams are also working with suppliers to design, produce and ship face shields for medical workers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Unfortunately, modern iPhones don’t work well with masks. If you’re wearing a mask, Face ID won’t let you unlock your phone. Setting up an alternate appearance<\/a> wearing a mask doesn’t work because it will complain that something is obstructing your face.<\/p>\n\n

You can<\/em> set up the alternate appearance up while wearing half a mask<\/a>, and I was eventually able to get this to work and complete the full scan. It would then let me unlock the phone while wearing the full mask, although it would often take multiple tries. I’m not sure whether this totally ruined the security so that it would have unlocked for anyone wearing a mask. Anyway, it’s moot because by the next day the iPhone was no longer recognizing me with the mask at all, and I was unable to even set it up with the half mask again.<\/p>\n\n

So, what to do:<\/p>\n