Face ID & Attention Accessibility Settings on the iPad and iPhone

In this video, we’re going to look at the face ID and attention settings we have for the iPad and iPhone. Basically what we can do is we can set if we want to require attention do we need to look at our device or iPad or iPhone, as well as if we want to make the iPad and iPhone aware that we’re looking at her device. This is an accessibility option. Let’s take a look at her face ID and attention settings we have on our iPad, and iPhone. Let’s go to my iPad and iPhone. Let’s first look at this on the iPad. Now I mentioned in the introduction that this is an accessibility option. So we need to do is we need to go to our settings app here. And then we go over to accessibility. So I go over here to accessibility. From here, what we need to do is we need to select face ID and attention.

So when I select this, you’re gonna see we have a few different options on the iPad, what we’re able to do is set if we want to require attention for face ID, you’re gonna see that mine is turned off. What is this? Well, basically, when this is turned on, the only way that the iPad will be unlocked, if you have face ID is if the iPad recognizes that you’re looking at the iPad, so you need to look at it with your own eyes. So why would you want to have this on or turn this off? Why do I have this off? Well, it’s just Beth and I in my house. And I don’t want to always have to be looking at my iPad to open it up. This iPad is located over to my left. And sometimes I’m looking at my other devices when I’m training. So I don’t want to have to always look at the iPad. So it is less secure. Because I don’t have to look at the iPad. All it has to do is just see my face. But again, my eyes don’t have to look at it. So it’s going to have a little more loose settings for opening up that iPad. But also why you may want to turn this on is someone could just take your iPad and pointed out your face, let’s say you’re sleeping, someone could just take that iPad and pointed at your face and then unlock it without you knowing it because you’re sleeping. So if you want to have it more secure, what you’re going to want to do is turn this on, if you want to have a little less secure and a little easier to open, then you can turn this off. I actually have this off on all of my devices. We also have attention aware features. What are these? Well again, as you’re using your iPad, if you are looking at the iPad, what this will do when this is turned on is it will not put the iPad to sleep, it will not dim the display. Let’s say you’re reading the iPad knows that you’re reading because it can see your eyes. So now what it will do when this is turned on is it will not dim the display because it knows that you are using the iPad.

So I will usually leave this on if I’m looking at the iPad that most likely means that I’m using it so I don’t want it to go to sleep. So that’s how it works on the iPad. Well what about the iPhone? Well, it basically works the same way we do have one other setting. So we’re gonna go over to my iPhone, the first thing we need to do is we need to go over to our settings app. Now what we do is we go over to accessibility, we do not want to go to face ID and passcode. That’s a completely different setting. That’s where we can set our passcode up and we can have our iPhone scan our face. Same thing with the iPad, what we want to do is we want to go to accessibility. What I’m talking about here are accessibility options. So now I select this. And then what we do is we go up to face ID and attention. As you can see, it’s similar to the iPad. When I select this I can set if I want to require attention for face ID again, when the iPhone is locked. If I want to unlock it Do I need to be looking at it with my own eyes. If you leave this on, it’s going to be more secure. If you turn this off like what I have, it’s going to be less secure.

We also have attention aware features. Again if I’m using the iPhone and I’m looking at it maybe I’m reading I do not want it to go to sleep. So I leave this one on with the iPhone we do have a third option. What we can also do is have haptics on successful authentication. So on this is turned on what it will do is it will play a haptic tap you’ll feel the phone just tap or vibrate just slightly. When face ID is successfully unlocked. It will also work when you successfully use Apple Pay or verify iTunes and app store purchases. On my personal device I do have this turned on. So when I go and use Apple Pay as an example, over at McDonald’s that’s how we typically will pay for McDonald’s. I will feel a haptic tap on the iPhone when I use my iPhone for Apple Pay because this is

turned on. It will also play a haptic tap when I unlock my iPhone. So those are the different face ID and attention options we have with accessibility on the iPad and iPhone. Basically what we can do is we can set if we want to require attention when we unlock our iPad or iPhone. And if we want to have attention to where features do we want the iPad or iPhone to go to sleep when we are looking at the iPad with require attention and face ID. If you turn that off, it is going to be a little less secure. It still needs to look at your face but you do not have to have your eyes open. And then also with the iPhone, we have haptic taps. When we successfully unlock our iPhone or use Apple Pay as an example what will happen is we’ll get a haptic tap on the iPhone. We do not have this on the iPad. So those are different accessibility options we have with face ID and attention on the iPad and iPhone.