Secure Face ID

[Muratto]

Hi @Samsung,

I am a big fan of proper FaceID and love Samsung products. I would love to see Face ID with the right level of hardware alongside the fingerprint scanner in the future Samsung products! Does anyone know if Samsung is planning to bring it to the consumers?

Thanks...

[johnz237]

Hi! Welcome to the Samsung Members community!

I don't believe they are planning on it—as you'd need to introduce some sort of island or a second camera punch-hole onto the screen—and that simply wouldn't fly for a Samsung phone, tbh. For example, for Face ID to be secure enough for what it's already not, such as banks, you would need a fully hardware-packed scanner seperate to the camera. 99% of Android users would rather keep using the fingerprint over having an island like apple

[arianwen27]

As a little extra, android sets 3 levels of security for biometrics.

Level 3 is trusted for unlocking apps and banks. This level has to have the code entered every 72 hours. Aka samsung fingerprint

Level 1 and 2 are weak security and cannot unlock apps, these are more for convenient screen unlocking. These reset after 4 hours of non use or 24 hours of time. Aka samsung face unlock. Face unlock with a single camera as you said isn't secure.

To have face unlock for apps and banks, samsung would need to make a level 3 face biometric. Something that as you said, would need extra sensors.

Thought this was interesting as the 72 hour and 4 hour thing isn't set by samsung, android themselves set it

[arianwen27]

https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/biometric/measure here's the extra details on it

[JSRai]

Bro it's already out!