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

[Boombarrush1]

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

[Jonyny]

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.

[RottenFoxBreath]

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

[Boombarrush1]

Unfortunately it is true

[Boombarrush1]

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.

[Jonas]

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.

[Valkarie]

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...

[Jonas]

@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.

[pressefr]

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.

[Jonas]

@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.