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I have been noticing my Face ID hasn’t been recognizing me the past couple of weeks and I have had to use my numeric password to access my device?

I have the latest update and have tried to reset the function and reprogram my facial image a couple of times and the camera is recognizing me fine and the procedure goes through its paces and says the image was successful and when I try to unlock my phone using the function, I just goes right to the numeric keypad asking for my code??

I am thinking it’s time for a device reset and restore from my latest backup because I am not going through setting up my device from scratch.

Any ideas?? I am open for suggestions.