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Although I absolutely dislike the current era of masks and respirators, just like the vast majority of you, I do not want and will not lie to myself that it will magically end in a few days. MiniAt least indoors we have to wear mouth and nose protection according to the recent minihealth care workers can count on it even during the summer. That's why I was even more pleased with one of the biggest news iOS 14.5, which will teach your iPhone X and later can be easily unlocked even if you are wearing a mouth and nose protection. All you need to do is “just” wear it on your wrist Apple Watch and meet a few other simple system requirements. Of course, I tested the new product as part of beta tests and I continued with it yesterday evening and all day today, so that I could now write at least a somewhat comprehensive view of it. I believe that many of you perceive this gadget as positively as I do and that you will have the same opinion about it.

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Personally, I have been using the Mac unlocking function for a long time Apple Watch and it probably won't surprise you that I've asked myself many times in the past why something similar doesn't work in combination with iPhonem. However, the reliability of unlocking a Mac via Watch is not always 100% and from time to time you simply cannot do without entering the password on the computer keyboard. I was even more pleased that unlocking an iPhone with Face ID over Apple Watch is a step ahead in this direction, at least in my eyes. The phone practically always recognizes a face mask and anything else that partially covers your face and unlocks itself after a short invisible interaction with the watch.

Unlocking as such takes over Apple Watch much longer than when you open the phone “directly” with your face, but I think that for the comfort that this new feature provides to users, one is happy to sacrifice a few hundredths more. I must also evaluate very positively the fact that in addition to unlocking, you can iPhone over Apple Watch even lock it, even just a moment after you unlock it through them. Sure, this is an action that will probably always be faster via the iPhone's Power Button, but it's simply nice that this option Apple he also added on Watch. Because it is always better to have more options and use them sporadically than to have only one and then lament that I always have to rely only on it. 

Screenshot z iOS 14.5

The only complaint I have about the novel is its lack of connection with Apple Pay, App Storeand applications that use facial authentication instead of a password – for example, banking ones. I find it quite a shame that once a person gets on the phone with a mask and a watch on their wrist,onec still has to take off the mask for certain things or use the option of numeric or alphanumeric codes. Sure, for example in the case of Apple Pay thanks to usability Apple Watch There is no problem with payments, but for Face ID locked applications just seems ill-conceived to me. However, I believe that Apple in the future, he will decide to develop this gadget even more, and thanks to this, it will become much more useful than it is now. After all, the era of face masks will not end anytime soon. 

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