Apple claims that there is one in a million probability of a random person unlocking your iPhone X with Face ID. But, in case if you have a twin sibling, that one in a million person can be your brother, probably living under the same roof!
The ambitious Face ID feature of Apple iPhone X has failed the twin test. Tech portal Mashable tested the phone on two sets of twins, and that too twice, each time the technology failed to differentiate between the twins.
Apple had agreed earlier in a document saying that the probability of a false match is different for twins and siblings but the video by Mashable establishes this.
The Face ID feature is a replacement for the Touch ID and can be used to unlock the phone and verify Apple Pay. According to the company, it is much safer than the Touch ID which has a false acceptance rate of one in every 50,000.
(Source: Mashable/Youtube)
Mashable invited two sets of identical twins— MJ Franklin and his brother Marc, and Carlos Cadorniga and his brother Alex. One from each pair registered his face on the iPhone X, other was able to unlock the phone without any hiccups.
Reportedly, when a similar test was done with Windows Hello, which allows users to log into their computer or laptop after scanning their faces, it could tell a difference between twins.
Apple never claimed that the technology is perfect, still, the inability to tell the difference between twins can pose a problem as more and more applications would be using face recognition for financial and security purposes.
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