Since I use fingerprint authentication for the vast majority of authentications with my iPhone, I set the actual pin to a complex alphanumeric password. I only

Since I use fingerprint authentication for the vast majority of authentications with my iPhone, I set the actual pin to a complex alphanumeric password. I only have to enter it a few times a week, so it’s worth the hassle. In this sense fingerprint authentication has significantly improved the security of my phone, because it’s so much more difficult to shoulder surf that alphanumeric password that it is a 4/6 digit numeric pin. Biometric authentication definitely seems like a win to me.