11 Reinitiate Face ID

Face ID on the iPhone X is glorious, most of the time… Every now and again it thinks you’re not you; like when your face is washed out by the bright sun, or you looked at it with your head tilted, or someone “photobombed” you and it scanned the wrong face. It doesn’t happen often, but when it fails it can be a pain to sleep and rewake your phone just to scan your face. Luckily, there’s a better way.

• If Face ID fails and prompts you for password, simply lower and re-raise your phone to reinitiate Face ID.
• Or, if it fails and doesn’t prompt for a password simply lift the Home Bar up slightly and lower it back down to rescan your face.

It’s not perfect, but it’s helpful information. Hopefully Apple will just add a “rescan” option in the future.