The Google Pixel 6 duo still don’t have Face Unlock over half a year since their initial launch. As far as rumors go, Google wanted to implement facial recognition to its phones but missed the deadline and ultimately shipped its flagship phones without the feature. There might still be some hope though as XDA Recognized Developer Freak07 found new evidence of Face Unlock on Pixel 6 series while digging through the Android 12 Quarterly Platform Release (QPR) 3 Beta.
The evidence suggests that Google might still push Face Unlock for Pixel 6 phones as a future software update but there’s no release timeframe for now. There’s also the possibility that Google is working on bringing facial recognition to a future Pixel phone and is testing out the feature on a Pixel 6 device. Based on previous evidence, Face Unlock on Pixel 6 was using up too much power during the facial recognition stage which is one of the main reasons Google decided to skip the feature all together.
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