Removing face unlock from Pixel smartphones ‘a good trade-off’

Google Pixel 5 (Google/PA)

Discontinuing face unlock and reverting back to a fingerprint sensor on the Pixel smartphone is “a good trade-off” to enable other premium features, a Google product manager has said.

The tech giant introduced facial identification to the Pixel 4 device for the first time in 2019 but decided to bring back the fingerprint sensor in this year’s Pixel 5.