The Face ID the face detection system is still by far the face detection system as a security mechanism for the mobile phone most accurate on the marketOtherwise, it would not be possible to use the good handful of features that it offers us such as paying through Apple Pay, however, nothing is unshakable.
In some cases, the possibility of unlocking an iPhone X through a system of 3D printed masks of the specific face of a subject has been demonstrated. Apple has patented a system that will prevent 3D printed skins from unlocking an iPhone with Face ID.
According to Pattently apple, a website popularized for shelling the patents of the Cupertino company, The firm has worked for a year and a half to perfect the algorithms of this type of 3D printed masks that cost around 150 euros and that they are capable of fully reproducing a person's face, so much so that they have been shown capable of unlocking an iPhone X through Face ID with a significant degree of efficiency, although not with astonishing ease, that is to say , it is not as simple as putting on a 3D printed mask and accessing the terminal.
This new patent is aimed at securing the iPhone from this type of "criminals" using patterns mixed between 2D and 3D analysis of a face, something similar to what is done now, but with a slight improvement in precision. Despite what we may believe, Face ID is even more secure than Touch ID, And it is that there is only one possibility in a million that a random user unlocks a configured Face ID that does not correspond to him, while in the case of Touch ID this occurred approximately once in every 50.000.
It is so easy to prevent people from cheating the system with 3D printed masks, you only have to use the technology of detection of vessels and veins for both facial and fingerprint recognition and problem solved that cannot be emulated, because if I remember correctly that one technology detects not only the structure of the veins but their movement