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I'm with you, I've fallen out of the habit of using fingerprint auth on any of my devices that support it (Macbook, Thinkpad, Motorola phone) because it's so un
by jcrawfordor 5y ago
I'm with you, I've fallen out of the habit of using fingerprint auth on any of my devices that support it (Macbook, Thinkpad, Motorola phone) because it's so unreliable. I have to re-enroll at least weekly if I want to keep it working well. I have eczema issues on my hands, which I think is the main issue, but also have found cuts and paint/glue to be common problems. I can enroll multiple fingers but that means I have to try four fingers before it unlocks... and usually I end up enrolling the same finger multiple times instead since the device has stopped recognizing it.
For what it's worth I used to have a job that involved frequent use of an optical fingerprint reader (the type that's a camera behind a glass platen) and did not have these types of problems with it. I think it's a weakness of the capacitative type of reader that all devices are using now, or possibly just less sophisticated matching software.