But Face Unlock is not activated yet
Google’s Pixel 6 series offers a solid hardware and feature-packed software experience, but it’s surprisingly missing a key feature so common on almost all modern smartphones: Face Unlock. However, there is hope that this feature will arrive soon, at least on the Pixel 6 Pro. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that Google has not completely abandoned Face Unlock and that it may arrive in a future update. A recent report indicated that the feature may be rolling out to the June Pixel Feature Drop. Now, some clues about the upcoming Face Unlock feature of the Pixel 6 Pro have surfaced.
As spotted by YouTuber M Brandon Lee of “This Is Tech Today,” Android 13 Beta 1 on the Pixel 6 Pro has added a new face unlock setting – the most concrete evidence yet of the feature’s existence and its imminent arrival. Android 13 Beta 1 adds a user-facing Face Unlock settings page. Although it is hidden and not directly accessible to end users, Mishaal Rahman forced the Settings page to appear on his Pixel 6 Pro phone and shared screenshots showing the setup process.
That’s right, and even if you force the Face Unlock setting to appear and announce the face unlock feature tag, it won’t work. FaceManager reports ‘No sensors available’. pic.twitter.com/Akr3tng7GL
– Mishaal Rahman April 27 2022
Unfortunately, the feature isn’t working at the moment, and you can’t set anything up. Interestingly, the Pixel 5 running Android 13 Beta 1 also shows a face unlock reference when you search for “face unlock” in the device settings.
It’s not clear when Google finally plans to roll out the Face Unlock feature in the Pixel 6 Pro. Anyway, this goes well with 9to5Google’s A recent report says the feature is slated to arrive with the Pixel Feature Drop. Since the Pixel 6 Pro doesn’t pack special hardware for face unlock, it will likely rely on the front camera and machine learning to get the job done.
source: M Brandon Lee (via Twitter), Mishaal Rahman
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