For your safety, please enter your PIN

[Steven P. Administrators]

I have

• fingerprint setup 👌
• face unlock 😁
• smart places enabled 🏠
• smart devices enabled (my PC bluetooth, my car) 💻🚗

I am at home, but "for your safety, please enter your PIN" 😩

[tsupersonic]

It is normal for this to happen once in a while...

[techbeck]

Normal.  Still have to enter PIN every now and then.  Annoying really but does not happen often enough for it to bother me.

[MS Bob 11]

On my Android 8.1 Oreo, all of them work - pattern, PIN or fingerprint. Even on the pattern or PIN screen, if I touch the fingerprint, it accepts.

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

Seems sensible.  All of the others you mentioned can be bypassed by someone forcibly placing you in front of the camera, pressing a finger against the fingerprint reader, etc.

 

While biometrics can be useful for identification, they suffer from some problems on the authentication side.

 

If you were visiting a place where you had concerns over the safety of information in your devices, it would be a good idea to disable their biometric authentication functions.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

 

[techbeck]

22 hours ago, Microsoft BOB™ 10 said:

On my Android 8.1 Oreo, all of them work - pattern, PIN or fingerprint. Even on the pattern or PIN screen, if I touch the fingerprint, it accepts.

I think the last couple OS versions require you to enter your PIN after a certain amount of face/finger unlocks.  Older OS versions you didn't have to.  You used to also be able to auto accept your PIN without hitting the enter key as well.  Now you have to do that.