My Pixel 2 fingerprint scanner no longer exists?

[Android Central Question]

My fingerprint scanner stopped working today. It's not that it's not recognized, it just does nothing. All of the help advice I have read says to go to "security and location" and then select "pixel imprint" to change settings, but there is no "pixel imprint" option on my phone. It's as if it just vanished over night. I have restarted several times and nothing seems to help. Help?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! One of our other Ambassadors, @Rukbat, has had this problem as well. Rukbat, do you want to describe what you experienced?