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Face ID Or Touch ID Unlock Your iPad
Essential Apple User Magazine
|January 2021
iPads have a great way of verifying who you are, to unlock your tablet, make purchases and more. If your iPad has a Home button, you use your fingerprint. If it doesn’t, you simply hold it up to your face, which is then scanned by Face ID. Here’s a guide to setting up whichever feature you have on your iPad.
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Setting Up Face ID
1 Open the Settings app and scroll down the list of apps and features until you get to the one called Face ID & Passcode. Tap it to open these settings.
2 If you’ve set up a passcode on your iPad, whether four-digit, six-digit or alphanumeric, you must enter it now to get to the main Face ID settings screen.
3 Tap Set Up Face ID and on the next screen read the instructions; then tap Get Started. You can add two faces to Face ID.
This story is from the January 2021 edition of Essential Apple User Magazine.
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