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They could just hold the phone up and you could look over for a fraction of a second. No different than if you were talking to them.



Oh boy, that's going to be awful fun for parents. Let the kid play with a game; they call your name while pointing the forward camera at you and you've just Face ID'ed some in-app purchase.


That's an interesting corner case. My phone has a setting that lets me turn off touch ID for App Store purchases (so I would have to use my passcode) so I guess you'd just have to use that if your kid kept tricking you and you couldn't stop them.


Then you get the bill in the mail a couple days later and then ground your kid.


In the mail? :-)




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