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  • You Can Finally Use Face ID Without Removing Your Mask

    You Can Finally Use Face ID Without Removing Your Mask

    Jake Peterson

    Face ID is a great iPhone feature — when your iPhone can see your face, that is. While wearing a mask helps protect you and those around you from COVID, it also blocks you from unlocking your phone with your face. Apple added a workaround to this problem for those of us with Apple Watches,…

  • You Can Use Your Apple Watch to Automatically Unlock Your Mac

    You Can Use Your Apple Watch to Automatically Unlock Your Mac

    Khamosh Pathak

    You might know about Apple’s feature that lets you automatically unlock your iPhone using the Apple Watch (when you’re wearing a face mask, at least). But you may not have known that this feature has also existed for years on the Mac. As long as you’re wearing your Apple Watch — and it’s unlocked —…