The iPhone’s Face ID unlock is one of the many reasons I prefer the iPhone over Android. It’s a feature only a few Android users have been able to experience. Android vendors had offered 2D face unlock for years before Apple introduced the more sophisticated 3D face recognition feature. But Face ID can unlock everything on the iPhone securely, while 2D face unlock only works to unlock the phone.
Fast-forward to the Pixel 8 launch, and Google introduced its own sophisticated Face Unlock feature. With the help of AI (ML, to be more specific), Google managed to give the Pixel 8 features similar to Face ID on the iPhone. What’s strange about it is that Google spent no time addressing the improved functionality during the event, even though the Made by Google presentation was all about the future of AI on Pixel devices.
