How do I enable fingerprint unlock on Android?

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Today I installed Bitwarden on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and unlock by fingerprint is still not possible.
Even small KeePass applications for Android (like KeePassDX or KeePass2Android) have this feature.
@tgreer Any plans?

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Hi Oliver, it is possible as I have that same device with Android 9 and it works great. Have you enabled it in Bitwarden Settings?

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Hello @go12,

I have enabled biometry, but here only ā€œFace unlockā€ is available.
No fingerprint (what I would prefer).
Is there any setting that I have missed?

OLLI

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@OLLI_S I believe that the device defaults to whichever biometric method youā€™re using (hence the ā€˜enable biometricsā€™ option instead of specifying Face Unlock or Fingerprint unlock.

If youā€™re using face unlock for the rest of your authentication, that is what Bitwarden would use also.

Is Biometric unlocking not working at all?

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Sorry, I posted my problem in the wrong thread.
The original topic was to allow to unlock the web-vault with a finger print on my phone
The problem I have posted some days ago is about unlocking the Android App with a finger Print.

So @tgreer (or maybe @vachan) can you please move my posting that I posted 7 days ago and all following topics to a new topic and call it ā€œUnlock Android Vault with finger printā€.
Thank you!

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I am not a moderator, only tgreer can move the posts. Thank you.

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@OLLI_S Iā€™m happy to move the posts, but Iā€™m not sure we need to?

I just want to clarify about biometric support on Android - we currently do support both fingerprint and face unlock for Android apps.

I may have missed something - if so please let me know and I can move/delete posts if needed.

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The original topic was to allow to unlock the web-vault on my PC with a finger print on my phone
So when the web-vault on my PC is locked, I can unlock it via the biometrical unlock on my phone (instead of having to enter my master password manually.

The problem I have posted some days ago is about unlocking the Android App with a finger Print.
And this problem is totally different, it is nothing about the web vault on my PC.
So, please split the ttopics.
Thank you.

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Moved to a new topic in user-user support, since a feature request isnā€™t needed.