[fnordpiglet]

Why would I bother shilling? How did you get a new 11? The current generation is 14. The oldest I can see they sell is 12. The X and 11 didn’t have particularly great Face ID support for lack of quality enough hardware.

The dark makes no sense. It’s not using visible spectrum, it uses IR laser dots and flood illuminator coupled with an IR camera to map and photograph your face in 3d.

Mask Auth only works afaik with iPhone 12 and greater.

Apple used to include Touch ID. Some devices still have it (iPads etc). They are trying to avoid something though - there’s no physical space on the devices for finger print scanner. The iPad integrates it into the on/off button which is large and exposed. But most phones have very small physical buttons that are typically covered by cases. The rest of the screen (sans notch) is edge to edge touch screen.

On my iPhone 14 the Face ID is basically flawless and very fast. I would suspect your “new” device that’s second gen Face ID is simply not as capable as the fifth gen on market today.

But, dude, if you like android, go for it.