Wearing a mask? You can soon use Face ID and Apple Watch to unlock your iPhone

Last year, when everyone started wearing masks, it became difficult to use Apple‘s Face ID feature to unlock iPhones. The company made unlocking slightly faster by immediately bringing up the passcode screen when your iPhone detected you’re wearing a mask. Now, it plans to let you unlock the phone with Face ID while wearing your mask — but you would need an Apple watch. As noted by Engadget, the new iOS 14.5 developer beta allows you to do that if you’re wearing an unlocked Apple Watch. [Read: India’s new customs duties will make your next phone pricier] This is how the…

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