So iphone has this great feature with which, you can make notifications hidden until the phone sees your face and authenticates it's you.

eg. my sister gets a notif on her phone and I don't have my face registered, so the phone won't show notifications to me until it sees a registered face.

android doesn't have this feature, so I think grapheneos may be the first to bring this feature to android!

I get that face unlock on pixel is less secure, so don't use it to unlock the phone, just use it to add an additional layer of privacy by hiding notif and still needing a fingerprint to unlock the phone.

That sounds like a lot of work for something very marginal and which doesn't add any privacy or security when there already are notification toggles in the settings you can adjust for a similar result.

Also this: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1746

Pixel 7 face unlock is insecure and won't be included in GrapheneOS. It lacks the necessary hardware support for secure face unlock. It has fingerprint unlock anyway.

13 days later

Is it planned to implement face unlock on Pixel 8 Pro, now that it is supposedly more secure?

  • de0u replied to this.

    kruton I recommend holding that question until 3 weeks after GrapheneOS ships for the 8 series.

    Thanks! I'm on the 7 Pro anyway, so I'm not on a hurry - this would be an interesting update over the 7, which might let me consider the 8!