In-display fingerprint sensors have become commonplace in virtually all Android smartphones, for better or for worse, and five years later…

  • bighatchester@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I miss the back fingerprint scanner. I could unlock my phone as I’m taking it out of my pocket . The in screen one on Samsung phones is really unreliable.

    • vxx@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      My sensor is on the button that turns on the phone, and it’s on the right side where the thumb is placed anyway. You press it, phone turns on and you can enter the passkey, you slide your thumb over it, you unlock the phone directly.

      I have it deactivated though. There’s no need to store my fingerprint anywhere to save 1.5 seconds.