After leaving exhausted iPhone X-owning parents everywhere on the hook for entering their Apple ID password for every “Ask to Buy” App Store purchase request last Christmas, Apple appears to have taken mercy on them in iOS 11.3, finally allowing Face ID to be used to authorize the purchases,9to5Mac reports.
Up until now, the “Ask to Buy” feature has allowed Touch ID to be used to approve the requests, but not Face ID.
Users testing the iOS 11.3 beta have found that the first purchase request still requires entering the password, but now iOS asks if the user wants to enable Face ID for approving future requests, so those who aren’t too worried about their kids breaking into their phones using their similar face will soon be free to simplify the process again.
