How to Easily Turn Off Face ID on Your iPhone

For many, the Face ID feature made turning their iPhones on and off much easier. It also allowed purchases to be made on the iPhone and even allowed a user to sign in to many online accounts.

But there are a whole range of reasons that others might not want Face ID to be active on their iPhones or prefer that Face ID only be active for certain things like account sign-ins:

1. Security (particularly for use with Apple Pay)
2. Face ID doesn't work properly
3. The Face ID feature activates too quickly on sign-in (a very common complaint).

Whatever the reason, here are the steps to either completely turn off Face ID on your iPhone or customize how it's used.

Is it just the "Raise to Wake" feature that's bothering you?

If you're just bothered by your phone waking up every time you lift it, then you might just need to deactivate raise to wake on your iPhone—not Face ID completely.