iPhone X users can’t use Face ID to approve family purchases
iPhone X owners have discovered that they can’t use Face ID to approve family purchases, pointing out on Apple’s forums that they can’t figure out how to activate the facial recognition feature to requests, and have to enter their password manually.
Ask to Buy is an iOS feature that allows parents to control what their children are buying with their phone. It’s useful, given that children have been known to rack up hundreds of dollars of purchases by mistake.
Ars Technica points out that users could approve the request with Touch ID, but since the release of the iPhone X, that’s no longer the case, and parents have to manually enter their Apple ID to approve the purchase. The feature can be used to authenticate a user to make...