Apple has been granted a patent suggesting Face ID may be coming to Macs. The feature would be used for security and preventing the screen from timing out.

Macs currently only offer Touch ID as a method of biometric security and this is limited to Macbooks. Windows has offered a facial recognition solution for a number of years now, named Windows Hello.
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