Storage Wars

Speaking of this show, we're gonna start with the lowdown, and like I mentioned at the top, the iPhone 18 Pro that just came out is suffering from some Face ID issues.

So basically what's going on is the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max started landing on doorsteps last Friday, like I mentioned.

Some early adopters are already discovering that their shiny new phones don't always c- recognize them.

According to a Reddit post, Face ID can fail when authenticating certain actions like opening a locked app, a- after which the phone freezes and eventually reboots to the lock screen.

Over on MacRumors forums, other owners are reporting that, quote, "A 'Face ID is not available' error message during setup," and some say their phones will unlock even with, quote, "required attention for Face ID turned on," meaning the phone may not care whether you're actually looking at it or not.

It's not clear how widespread any of this is.

I'm not experiencing these issues, and I do have an 18 Pro Max, but plenty of users may or may not be affected.

One notable wrinkle, this is the first year Apple moved Face ID's infrared camera under the top left corner of the display to shrink the dynamic island.

Nobody has tied the bugs to the hardware changes yet, but it's hard to not to raise an eyebrow, and it's likely, and the likely fix is a future iOS 27 update.

Like I mentioned, I picked up the 18 Pro Max last Friday.

I'm not experiencing these issues, but the fact that the story was covered means somebody's experiencing it, so just wanted to get your take on the idea that Face ID is acting up f- as soon as Apple hides the sensor behind the screen to shrink the dynamic island.

Do you think that's a, there's a, a correlation there, or are people just reaching?

So I like how you just slid that you went on over and you picked up the iPhone 18 Pro Max on Friday.

Um, I think honestly, it's a new device.

It's, um, a new sensor.

Uh, it's new software.

It's been out in the wild for about a week or so.

So I'm honestly looking at it for face value.

I don't think it's that big of an issue.

Obviously it's a bug, and obviously they'll fix that.

This isn't abnormal for, uh, you know, issues to be found, um, with devices this soon.

And a lot of times you can test these, you know, devices and software as much as you can, but people have different setups.

They have, you know, unique, uh, ways their phones are set up that you can't always test for.

Now, if this was happening across the board, then that would be cause to ring the alarm, but because it appears to be in specific use cases, it doesn't sound like they've nailed down what those specific parameters are because it is happening sporadically and it's not happening across the board.

I think it's a bug, like any other software, hardware, and they'll likely adjust it in the iOS 27.

Speaking of this show, we're gonna start with the lowdown, and like I mentioned at the top, the iPhone 18 Pro that just came out is suffering from some Face ID issues.

So basically what's going on is the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max started landing on doorsteps last Friday, like I mentioned.

Some early adopters are already discovering that their shiny new phones don't always c- recognize them.

According to a Reddit post, Face ID can fail when authenticating certain actions like opening a locked app, a- after which the phone freezes and eventually reboots to the lock screen.

Over on MacRumors forums, other owners are reporting that, quote, "A 'Face ID is not available' error message during setup," and some say their phones will unlock even with, quote, "required attention for Face ID turned on," meaning the phone may not care whether you're actually looking at it or not.

It's not clear how widespread any of this is.

I'm not experiencing these issues, and I do have an 18 Pro Max, but plenty of users may or may not be affected.

One notable wrinkle, this is the first year Apple moved Face ID's infrared camera under the top left corner of the display to shrink the dynamic island.

Nobody has tied the bugs to the hardware changes yet, but it's hard to not to raise an eyebrow, and it's likely, and the likely fix is a future iOS 27 update.

Like I mentioned, I picked up the 18 Pro Max last Friday.

I'm not experiencing these issues, but the fact that the story was covered means somebody's experiencing it, so just wanted to get your take on the idea that Face ID is acting up f- as soon as Apple hides the sensor behind the screen to shrink the dynamic island.

Do you think that's a, there's a, a correlation there, or are people just reaching?

So I like how you just slid that you went on over and you picked up the iPhone 18 Pro Max on Friday.

Um, I think honestly, it's a new device.

It's, um, a new sensor.

Uh, it's new software.

It's been out in the wild for about a week or so.

So I'm honestly looking at it for face value.

I don't think it's that big of an issue.

Obviously it's a bug, and obviously they'll fix that.

This isn't abnormal for, uh, you know, issues to be found, um, with devices this soon.

And a lot of times you can test these, you know, devices and software as much as you can, but people have different setups.

They have, you know, unique, uh, ways their phones are set up that you can't always test for.

Now, if this was happening across the board, then that would be cause to ring the alarm, but because it appears to be in specific use cases, it doesn't sound like they've nailed down what those specific parameters are because it is happening sporadically and it's not happening across the board.

I think it's a bug, like any other software, hardware, and they'll likely adjust it in the iOS 27.