One of the most annoying problems of facial recognition on the iPhone begins to be solved with the new Beta 1 of iOS 14.5, and it is that now with the Apple Watch you can unlock your iPhone even wearing a mask.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic almost a year ago, the facial recognition (Face ID) of the iPhone has become a major annoyance, since the system cannot see your face well enough to recognize you and thus be able to unlock the iPhone, however with the first Beta of iOS 14.5 for iPhone and that of watchOS 7.4 for Apple Watch this is solved, allowing If you are wearing your Apple Watch and you unlock your iPhone with the mask on, the system will allow you to unlock your iPhone, quite a relief.
The system will work in a similar way to how the Mac is unlocked with the Apple Watch, and its security will not be impaired, since several conditions must be met for this to work correctly. The first is that you must take the Apple Watch and have it unlocked, and the second is that the iPhone must recognize that you are wearing the mask. If these conditions are met, you will no longer have to lower your mask or enter the unlock code, something to which we were already more than accustomed and which considerably reduced the comfort of a system that has proven to be very safe and fast. but that with COVID-19 it was a real nuisance for iPhone users.
At the moment it is the first Beta of iOS 14.5, so we will have to wait for the official version to be released for everyone to see how it works or encourage us to make use of the Developer Beta or the Public Beta (when available). Waiting to see if the next iPhone 13 includes a fingerprint sensor integrated in the screen or in the power button, in the style of iPad Air, this can be an excellent solution to the problem caused by the use of masks.