As we reported yesterday, Bloomberg claimed that the feature, supposed to be used to sign on to the phone and to make payments, has been modified because it is having problems producing enough machines. Apple and its minions in the Tame Apple Press claimed that the feature will be the greatest thing to happen to humanity since we came down from the trees. Cynics say that the iPhone X is money for old rope and coming down from the trees was a bad idea anyway.

Apple told its favourite news agency that the Bloomberg story was  “completely false”.

However Bloomberg cited sources close to people familiar with the situation, insisted that Apple relaxed some of the technical specifications for sensors for the Face ID system, making it faster to test the parts and the newspaper is standing behind its report.

Jobs' Mob is having a huge number of problems with the iPhone 8 (not selling) and the iPhone X can’t get it to go, so the smart money is on Bloomberg being right.

In its statement, Apple said it expects the iPhone X to go on sale as planned on November 3 with the Face ID feature.

“The quality and accuracy of Face ID haven’t changed. It continues to be a one in a million probability of a random person unlocking your iPhone with Face ID,” the company said in a statement.

Bloomberg’s story did not specify whether Apple relaxed its requirements before or after it announced its one-in-a-million accuracy claims for Face ID at a press conference on Septembers 12.

What is annoying about this is that when the phone comes out, the Tame Apple Press will insist that it is perfect and we will not know if we are looking at the dumbed down version. We would need to do a million accuracy tests to be certain. No doubt someone will prove Apple wrong eventually.