Apple Denies Reports of Issues with Facial Recognition

With a price tag of $999, the iPhone X, which coincided with the phone’s 10th anniversary, is the most expensive phone Apple has released. Apple is expecting a bulk of its profits to come from the sales of this new smartphone.

A report by Bloomberg published on Wednesday suggested that a new feature on the advanced iPhone may have been made less accurate in order to help factories produce the complicated True Depth camera on the front of the device. Face ID uses an infrared projector to locate a user’s face, sending tiny dots out to map 30,000 locations on the face, and then determines whether the resulting shape matches the face on record as the phone’s owner.

Apple defended itself against the report. It said, “Face ID is a powerful and secure authentication system that’s incredibly easy and intuitive to use. The quality and accuracy of Face ID haven’t changed. It continues to be a one in a million probability of a random person being able to unlock your phone with Face ID. Bloomberg’s claim that Apple has reduced the accuracy spec for Face ID is completely false and we expect Face ID to be the new gold standard for facial authentication.”

Several reports have suggested that the iPhone X has been difficult to manufacture. This difficulty has caused some delays in their deadlines, but some people feel that it is worth the wait.