panoptician

Wow, I can finally see what's on Apple TV+ without things from other services intermixed. That only took a year. 

People on Reddit are saying that 13.1 enables night mode on their XS and XR. Here's hoping this isn't an accident and Apple actually gives it to us A12ers in the final release. 

I tried taking a picture with the front-facing camera and noticed that it seems to be applying some kind of "beauty filter" like a lot of the Chinese Android phones have started doing. Under the wrong conditions I look like a wax figure of myself. Using third party camera apps doesn't get rid of it. Apple really needs to turn this crap off. 

If you're using your ATV 4K with HDR/Dolbyvision mode turned on, you really need to adjust the default settings. By default, the ATV will output EVERYTHING in HDR mode which can really screw with the picture on SDR content. Change your output mode to 4K SDR and then turn on the "frame rate and dynamic range matching" option. This way it only turns on HDR when the content supports it.

hailthehamster said:

In my experience, I have to keep it a fairly consistent distance with a neutral expression. Slight angles won’t work, nor will having food in my mouth.

It sounds like you're hitting "cancel" and re-trying when Face ID fails instead of entering your passcode. This prevents Face ID from learning. I had a lot of failures when I first got my X but the success rate steadily improved over time as it gathered more data. Now I can make crazy expressions and have it pretty far to the side.