Giving up on the Pixel 4XL

[Seremedy]

And, even after using the 4XL for - what is it, three months now? - I still find that I unintentionally unlock it multiple times daily. Of course, that never happened with my 3XL, whose fingerprint sensor I found to be perfectly positioned and perfectly functional.

Have you ever thought you might have the raise to wake feature on? Or another smart feature? As i dont have this problem, my phone doesnt just accidentally or randomly unlock

 

[Nikholas Pappas]

Have you ever thought you might have the raise to wake feature on? Or another smart feature? As i dont have this problem, my phone doesnt just accidentally or randomly unlock

That's a bit of a catch 22.... If you want to be able to see your lock screen and say, skip a track on spotify, you need to disable another feature so it doesn't unlock. But then when you want it to unlock quickly you need that feature lol

 

[Nikholas Pappas]

Not all, just those that support it. You can still use standard password or pin for those apps that haven't updated to that feature yet.

Yea, that was a problem for me. Got super annoying. I have a lot of apps that require authentication/Password.

 

[TheDonJ77]

Yea, that was a problem for me. Got super annoying. I have a lot of apps that require authentication/Password.

I definitely understand that.

 

[Nikholas Pappas]

Couldnt tell you....I don't know what the lag time if any was when apple implemented it. Even if it was faster, it would certainly make sense since Apple's implementation involved a much larger scale of units sold.

Not really, considering this is a core level security change it is being implemented in Android itself and will effect all Android phones, not just Pixel phones. All Apps updated after November 2019 are supposed to use the "BiometricPromt" API. That API is compatible with face unlock.

Any app that was updated in the last 2 months means the developer ignored the compatibility warning and used the old API.

The difference between google and Apple here is that Google gives the developer the option to ignore the warning and use an older API, where Apple forced developers to comply with the latest standard.

 

[Mike Dee]

Not really, considering this is a core level security change it is being implemented in Android itself and will effect all Android phones, not just Pixel phones. All Apps updated after November 2019 are supposed to use the "BiometricPromt" API. That API is compatible with face unlock.

Any app that was updated in the last 2 months means the developer ignored the compatibility warning and used the old API.

The difference between google and Apple here is that Google gives the developer the option to ignore the warning and use an older API, where Apple forced developers to comply with the latest standard.

If it was that simple its doubtful that it would be a problem

 

[Nikholas Pappas]

As far as I can tell it is developers not using the new API in the updates. I haven't been able to find something to suggest otherwise.

https://medium.com/androiddeveloper...rprintmanager-to-biometricprompt-4bc5f570dccd