The next iPad Pro needs to borrow this one iPad Air feature

I've used my iPad Pro for years now – obviously that means that I do like it, but there are two features that really ruin the experience for me.  The first is the battery life, but I know I can only get so annoyed at that. I've used the thing incessantly for several years, and Apple isn't exactly great with its product battery life anyway – I'm used to this now.  But there's one feature that some Apple fans paint as a positive, that I just hate for the iPad: Face ID.

 

I know Face ID is popular on iPhones, but I've found it doesn't work well at all. It rarely recognizes my face, and even when it does, it takes loads of rotating and fiddling with the device to angle it right. Oh, and simply picking up the phone is a chore when in-screen fingerprint sensors let me avoid this.

 

I'm admittedly comparing it to Android phone equivalents, which are a little less secure, but I'm not a secret agent or important celebrity – the odds of someone printing out a 3D copy of my face to hack into my phone is pretty rare.

 

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I also found that Face ID doesn't take into account changes in my face – sometimes I have lots of facial hair and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I wear glasses and sometimes I don't. I've even found my hairstyle affects it, and don't get me started on face masks.

But if it's annoying on iPhones, it's downright bad on iPads.

That's because you need the sensors angled just right in iPhones for Face ID to work. That's not too hard if you're lifting the device up to your face to unlock it. But you're not exactly going to want to do the same on an iPad.

I always find myself craning my neck over my 12.9-inch iPad Pro to try and get it to unlock, or picking it up and twirling it around in my hands. That's not exactly easy given how huge it is.

Apple's Face ID might be great for small portable devices, but tablets are designed to be used on a desktop or work counter – given that Face ID requires you to be perfectly positioned in front of the sensors, the system of facial unlocking just isn't ideal.