MTA asks Apple’s help to solve iPhone mask issues

MTA asks Apple’s help to solve iPhone mask issues

A strobe light bursts along with invisible ultraviolet light intended to kill the new coronavirus on a subway car at a maintenance facility in Corona section of Queens borough of New York on Friday, June 12, 2020. The MTA is expanding the use of the devices to disinfect subway cars. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s mass transit agency wants Apple to come up with a better way for iPhone users to unlock their phones without taking off their masks, as it seeks to guard against the spread of the coronavirus in buses and subways. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Patrick Foye says riders have been seen removing their masks to unlock their phones using face-recognition technology. Apple already has released an update that simplifies the unlock process for people wearing masks, but the MTA wants additional measures.

 

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