Android app only unlocks with fingerprint even if FaceID is set

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Android app only unlocks with fingerprint even if FaceID is set #737

Closed jleach closed 1 year ago

jleach commented 2 years ago

The Android app only unlocks with a fingerprint even if the ability to unlock with face ID is present.

As noted here this is a known limitation in the Android implementation:

For Android we support only two states: None (default) and Fingerprint (use only biometric protected storage); Face recognition fails with "User not authenticated" exception, see issue #318

jleach commented 2 years ago

To fix this issue we would need to fix 318 in the underlying package we use. Read the conversation, someone did submit a PR to fix but it was never merged.