I’ve tried leaving Photos running, and I’ve tried quitting. So there was a burst of speed where it was doing 3,000 photos per day (still not fast, but eventually will finish at that rate), then it slowed to a crawl. 15:02: 18,307 photos scanned, 6782 photos left when I quit 17:34: 18,025 photos scanned, 7064 photos left when I quit ?:?: 17,933 photos scanned, 7141 photos left when I quit 23:51: 17,736 photos scanned, 7332 photos left when I quit 23:43: 16,910 photos scanned, 8156 photos left when I quit

23:43: 16,707 photos scanned, 8356 photos left when I quit 18:29: 16,475 photos scanned, 8574 photos left when I quit 19:46: 16,372 photos scanned, 8642 photos left when I quit 00:49: 16,352 photos scanned, 8663 photos left when I quit 22:14: 16,350 photos scanned, 8653 photos left when I quit 19:04: 16232 photos scanned, 8771 photos left when I quit I’ve started tracking my progress: 21:59: 9521 photos left to scan when I quit My iPhone 7 Plus, which I bought a week ago is almost finished.

On my Mac Pro desktop, this process took about 2 days as I recall. Make sure you’re running iOS 14.5 on iPhone and watchOS 7.Since I came to Thailand 6 weeks ago, iPhoto on my Macbook pro has been scanning for faces.iPhone: How to use Face ID with a mask With Apple Watch “Face ID is designed to work with your eyes, nose, and mouth visible,” an Apple spokeswoman said in a statement.īut if being able to use Face ID with a mask could be valuable to you, even if not a 100% unlock rate, try out the steps below.Īnd along with that option, we’ll look at how to use the Apple Watch iPhone unlock feature that first arrived with iOS 14.5. In our testing, that worked, but not very consistently.Īt 9to5Mac we found the most consistent method was using half a mask for the primary Face ID setup as well as doing/redoing the alternate appearance with a half a mask on the other side of your face to offer the best unlocking results.įor its part, Apple told the Wall Street Journal: The tutorial mentions folding a mask in half and going through the setup process for Face ID. Researchers at Tencent’s Xuanwu Lab (via the Wall Street Journal) discovered that you can often train Face ID to recognize you’re wearing a mask if you set up the biometric system while wearing half a mask. Here’s how to use iPhone’s Face ID With a Mask in iOS 15.4.Check out how the feature works in our full hands-on. Update 3/14/22: With the release of iOS 15.4, Apple is officially supporting Face ID With a Mask. Read on for how to use Face ID with a mask including the option to unlock your iPhone with Apple Watch when Face ID detects you’re wearing a mask. Even though it sounds like a first-world problem, there are a lot of people, including medical professionals, who would value Face ID on iPhone to work while wearing protective equipment. Wearing a face mask usually renders iPhone’s Face ID unusable.

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