Face ID made a debut when Apple launched the iPhone X back in the year 2017. It may replace Touch ID that was a standard feature in Apple's earlier iPhones. Soon after Apple's Face ID feature made its way to the iPads, Macs as well. Now, the word is that the company might propose a modified version of its Face ID feature on to Macs soon. In a report, it has been stated that Apple may soon add Face ID and smart auto-wake feature.

The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent titled 'Presence Sensing' to Apple the details, that how the Cupertino, California based tech giant would implement a modified version of the Face ID and a smart auto-wake feature on its Macs in future.

The patent granted the Apple could allow the Macs in future to do two things. First, it would allow it to determine if there is an object or if a person is near the Mac. If a person is the workable proximity of the Mac, the smart auto-wake would ensure that the Mac does not slip into the sleep mode, which is what usually happens if users doesn't give some sort of input to a Mac for a long time. The second functionality described in the patent would allow the device the automatically unlock the Mac when its owner is in its vicinity.

"One embodiment may take the form of a method in operating a computing device to provide presence-based functionality. The method may comprise operating the computing device in a standardised power state and collecting a first set of data from a first sensor or a group of sensors. Based on the first set of data, the computing device circumscribes a probability or likelihood that an object is proximately located on the device. 

Additionally, the computing device may make a hard decision as to the proximity of an object. If we talk about Based on the second set of data, device determines if the object is a person. Suppose an object is a person, the device determines a position of the person relative to the computing device and executes a change of state in the computing device based on the position of person related to computing device. If an object is not a person, the computing device remains in a standardised power state," the franchise says.