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Android Identity Check will secure your phone from even a stolen PIN (www.androidauthority.com)
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Google's giving Android users an extra tool to keep their phones safe with the mandatory biometric security of Identity Check.

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[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

I use fingerprint authentication for my phone on The Daily, I will never use this feature. Strictly because the fact that fingerprint sensing is so inconsistent and any type of change to the phone screen requires you to completely redo your fingerprints. Not to mention any type of substance on your hand suddenly makes you unable to use the phone, just when swimming for a half hour enjoy not accessing your phone just took a shower yep you're going to wait an hour before using your phone.

Fingerprint authentication is super handy and I do like it, but I would never enable A system that required the fingerprint in order to pass the login

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

How much you want to bet that this is not going to be a feature in AOSP, but will only be on the Google versions of Android.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It'll almost certainly be part of Google Play services. Like their other, more crude, Anti-Theft implementations.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Biometrics are passwords you can't change. Depends on the implementation and hashing, but the digitization of your body is still just a complex number that maths through the ALU in a compare registers operation. That number can be replicated on some level, but you cannot change that number if it is lost.

[-] spacedogroy@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

I mean, the optical fingerprint sensors they've been using on the Pixels are absolutely garbage, so I will never use this feature.

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 1 points 17 hours ago

Pixel 9 has an ultrasonic sensor

[-] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 6 points 1 day ago

Can we have passwords longer than 16 characters ffs?

[-] prism@lemmy.one 1 points 12 hours ago

There's no reason why it can't be supported. ROMs like Graphene have been supporting longer passwords for ages so seems like some arbitrary Google restriction. Yet another reason why I stay degoogled.

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

I just set a 17 char password on my Samsung.

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