New York’s public transportation agency would like Apple to come up with some way of unlocking phones that doesn’t involve passengers lowering their masks to use Face ID, according to ABC News.
New York’s public transportation agency would like Apple to come up with some way of unlocking phones that doesn’t involve passengers lowering their masks to use Face ID, according to ABC News. Face ID has run into some problems during the novel coronavirus pandemic, namely that it isn’t really capable of identifying users wearing a mask. The Metropolitan Transit Authority, which runs the subways, buses, and railroads in and around New York City, is concerned because passengers are habitually removing their masks to unlock their phones with Face ID, spewing respiratory droplets everywhere, any of which might contain the virus. MTA Chairman Patrick Foye wrote his letter to Apple that he wants the company to come up with an alternate method that does not require the bottom half of a human face to operate, according to ABC and the New York Post.
