– How does an iPhone detect your face in Face ID in the dark, but doesn’t let you see a thing on the Camera app when it’s dark?

Question

– How does an iPhone detect your face in Face ID in the dark, but doesn’t let you see a thing on the Camera app when it’s dark?

In: 0

Answer 1

FaceID works off infrared…a “colour” (light frequency) that you can’t see but your phone camera can.

So the camera works just fine in the dark…but in a way that you can’t see so the app still looks dark.