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No face recognition function available for Xperia 1 after Android 10 update

Boombarrush1 — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:36:17 GMT

Where is face unlock on Xperia 1? It has disappeared after the Android 10 update.

Re: No face recognition function available for Xperia 1 after Android 10 update

Jonyny — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 21:22:07 GMT

Android 10 hasn't come to my country but I read this.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=81114929&postcount=181

If true, I probably won't update.

Re: No face recognition function available for Xperia 1 after Android 10 update

RottenFoxBreath — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 03:07:14 GMT

It's removed because it wasn't safe and secure.

Re: No face recognition function available for Xperia 1 after Android 10 update

Boombarrush1 — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 06:49:00 GMT

Unfortunately it is true

Re: No face recognition function available for Xperia 1 after Android 10 update

Boombarrush1 — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 06:51:10 GMT

I hope Sony could do it better with the update. Anyway it was better than the ftp-scanner in Xperia 1 which is continuing disappointing.

Re: No face recognition function available for Xperia 1 after Android 10 update

Jonas — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:29:20 GMT

Hello everyone!

As all of you have already noticed, Trusted face in Smart Lock feature has been removed as it is not supported in Android 10.

From what I was able to gather, it's Google that has removed it as a part of Android 10's security considerations.

The other Smart lock "features" are still around though and it's only the Trusted face feature that has been removed.

Re: No face recognition function available for Xperia 1 after Android 10 update

Valkarie — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:46:44 GMT

Then will Sony consider coming up with this feature, which is offered by just about every cell phone manufacturer out there? After all, it's "only" a few years behind the curve...

Re: No face recognition function available for Xperia 1 after Android 10 update

Jonas — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 08:21:26 GMT

@Valkarie, I will make sure to forward the feedback, but I can't make any promises that a face unlocking feature will be added.

From what I understand, it's very few of them that are actually safer than a screen lock and most are just there for making it easy, but I guess that was the entire point with the one in Smart lock as well, as it even mentioned it was less safe than using a PIN, pattern or password to unlock the device.

Re: No face recognition function available for Xperia 1 after Android 10 update

pressefr — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:12:50 GMT

It's probably mostly from the Pixel 4 face unlock with no eyes opened incident.

It didn't really work well for the longest time. I was actually going to turn it off when I realized the feature went missing and came here to see what's going on.

Re: No face recognition function available for Xperia 1 after Android 10 update

Jonas — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:34:05 GMT

@pressefr, I always laugh when I see that picture, haha.

I think the Pixel 4 is using something else than trusted faces though, but to be honest, face unlocking using Smart lock has always been very insecure, so I think it's for the best that it was removed.