iOS: Passcode instead of Biometric authentication

EddyVerbruggen / cordova-plugin-touch-id

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Closed idoodler closed 5 years ago

idoodler commented 5 years ago

I am experiencing issues with the biometric authentication on iOS 12.2 on my iPhone X.

I am calling verifyFingerprint but the iOS passcode dialog pops up instead of the Face ID dialog.

In the Console Application I can see a strange error:

Anyone experiencing similar issues?

idoodler commented 5 years ago

I just resolved the issue by adding the key NSFaceIDUsageDescription to the Info.plist. It looks like it is a mandatory key...

EddyVerbruggen commented 5 years ago

That's correct, but based on this, Cordova should add that automatically for you: