--- title: iPhone X Face ID Software Inspires the Funniest Memes description: After Tim Cook presented the iPhone X's new face ID technology, the Internet had plenty of jokes about the security of the new phone. canonical: https://time.com/4938362/iphone-x-evil-twin-memes/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-12T20:26:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:10.807Z og:title: The Internet Had Jokes About Apple's New Face ID for iPhone og:description: Here's what you need to know about Apple's latest offering og:url: https://time.com/4938362/iphone-x-evil-twin-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ad27efcbf7e91f1/6988dd7ce76ad24eb762f1f4/iphone-x-evil-twin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: US-IT-LIFESTYLE-APPLE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Had Jokes About Apple's New Face ID for iPhone twitter:description: Here's what you need to know about Apple's latest offering twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ad27efcbf7e91f1/6988dd7ce76ad24eb762f1f4/iphone-x-evil-twin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Had All of the Jokes When It Came to Apple's iPhone X Face ID > Sponsored content. 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Cook explained that the new face ID function would still be secure because there was only a 1 in a million chance that your facial makeup would match with someone else’s unless you had an “evil twin,” a joke that the Internet collectively decided to have some fun with. > [](https://twitter.com/TatianaKing/status/907672817696739328) One Twitter ribbed Cook for the perceived vulnerability of the new model. > [](https://twitter.com/zfasel/status/907672903231197185) While another joked about the validity of an evil twin. > [](https://twitter.com/basilsblog/status/907672276304351233) This user ironically offered gratitude for not having an evil twin IRL. > [](https://twitter.com/cjezzey/status/907672331342024704) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4938362/iphone-x-evil-twin-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4938362/iphone-x-evil-twin-memes/"},"headline":"The Internet Had All of the Jokes When It Came to Apple's iPhone X Face ID","datePublished":"2017-09-12T20:26:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:10.807Z","description":"Here's what you need to know about Apple's latest offering","url":"https://time.com/4938362/iphone-x-evil-twin-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Apple","Technology","viral","iPhone 8","iPhone 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ad27efcbf7e91f1/6988dd7ce76ad24eb762f1f4/iphone-x-evil-twin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ad27efcbf7e91f1/6988dd7ce76ad24eb762f1f4/iphone-x-evil-twin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-IT-LIFESTYLE-APPLE","caption":"US-IT-LIFESTYLE-APPLE","creditText":"JOSH EDELSON—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4938362/iphone-x-evil-twin-memes/","name":"The Internet Had All of the Jokes When It Came to Apple's iPhone X Face ID"}}]}] ```