Using Fingerprint Scanner for Logins w/Apps? Websites? No More??

pwscott

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So on my Note 9 and the Notes before it, I have always used 1Password for securely storing my passwords across devices with sync in the cloud. Works great. But when I would choose to fill in a password in my browser using 1Password, it would challenge me with a popup for the main password for the password vault and I would hook my index finger around the rear of the Note 9 and scan my finger on the fingerprint reader on the back.
Now, with the reader embedded i the screen, I don't get that opportunity, the onscreen keyboard remains up and there's no apparent way to scan my finger to sign in...Have we sacrificed using the fingerprint scanner for logins? If I go to my Wells Fargo Banking app where I have always used my fingerprint to login, there's no option for that just the password challenge on the screen?
Any thoughts or tips? I am thinking I will try uninstalling and reinstalling 1Password and may be I will get "Draw Over Other Apps" permission by installing it full on rather than with SmartSwitch?? BTW the keyboard I am using is Gboard, but will probably try Swiftkey that I have always used too...
 

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This works perfectly fine with my Lastpass on my Note 20 Ultra 5G. Sounds like a compatibility issue with 1Password, maybe check to see if there is an update from them or reach out to them for support?
 

pwscott

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Yay...OK...got it working on Wells Fargo and 1Password! After verifying "Draw Over Permission" (search for it in settings) and rstarting, then going to WF and re-enabling Fingerprint Scan and after opening 1Password and checking that "Use Biometrics" was checked [it was], I disabled biometrics and when I re-enabled it, all is good...fingerpricnt scanner comes on over screen now. Phew...was worried we wouldn't be able to do this. Works great now.
 

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So on my Note 9 and the Notes before it, I have always used 1Password for securely storing my passwords across devices with sync in the cloud. Works great. But when I would choose to fill in a password in my browser using 1Password, it would challenge me with a popup for the main password for the password vault and I would hook my index finger around the rear of the Note 9 and scan my finger on the fingerprint reader on the back.
Now, with the reader embedded i the screen, I don't get that opportunity, the onscreen keyboard remains up and there's no apparent way to scan my finger to sign in...Have we sacrificed using the fingerprint scanner for logins? If I go to my Wells Fargo Banking app where I have always used my fingerprint to login, there's no option for that just the password challenge on the screen?
Any thoughts or tips? I am thinking I will try uninstalling and reinstalling 1Password and may be I will get "Draw Over Other Apps" permission by installing it full on rather than with SmartSwitch?? BTW the keyboard I am using is Gboard, but will probably try Swiftkey that I have always used too...

I just set up using fingerprint for my citizens bank app. It works
 

pwscott

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I have right thumb, left thumb and right index prints. Seems plenty fast. I just double tap the screen and scan one and boom.