The difference is one stays local on your phone in a tpm only accessible from that device while the other is stored on some third party platform by a vendor you have never heard of with no information around security controls.
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As someone who does not like Apple, you're confidently incorrect.
FaceID information is stored locally. You have to remember that FaceID isn't just a picture - it's a 3D depth scan using LIDAR. If every phone transmitted that information to Apple whenever phones were unlocked it would consume an absurd amount of data and thus money.
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Tell me you don’t understand technology without saying you don’t understand technology. Biometrics don’t leave Apple devices. Proof? Go get an old touch iPhone and set up a fingerprint and then try to use that to log in to a MacBook with Touch ID.
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