Without these hardware additions, however, the Pixel face unlock does suffer in low light environments. In fact, it nearly impossible to authenticate using your face when in the dark, which is in stark contrast to the iPhone. Google, for its part, appears to be working on a solution to this, and it a pretty ingenious one: simply light up the screen momentarily when authenticating to give the camera sensor more light to work with. The folks over at Android Authority have uncovered software...
