hold the phone

“To be honest with you, I just told the story in the most natural way that I talk. It’s nothing for me to hold the phone up, whether I’m on FaceTime with a friend or a family member, and just talk. ... What you see in that 50-part series is who I am,” Johnson said.

Hold the phone far from your face and at an oblique angle to minimize the strength of the light.

He also suggests trying to hold the phone at more of an upright, angled position.

To cope, his mother would “lie on the floor and hold the phone away from her head.”

The process is simple: Take a face selfie, scan the passport photo page and hold the phone against the inside of the passport’s back cover to read the embedded chip.