The IPhone's Face ID Struggles in the Morning

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. Unlike Beyoncé, we do not all wake up flawless--at least not according to the iPhone X. Several iPhone X–owning Twitter users have taken to the latter (probably using the former) to complain that Face ID--the phone's facial recognition technology--fails to recognize their face first thing in the morning. Like a drunken one-night stand, the iPhone X doesn't quite know who they are in the morning light. Face ID, Apple's follow-up to Touch ID, allows users to unlock their phone with their face--or more specifically, with a mathematical representation of their facial structure.