To top off a busy day, you can now login to the Android app using fingerprint authentication
If you’re signing up for the first time then you’ll see the option to set this up automatically. If you have the app already, just log out & then log back in to enable this.
Edit: just tried it, logged out, signed in, clicked the magic link in my email and then had the option to add fingerprint in the app! Even allows you to use it when confirming a buy or sell order. Well done freetrade android team.
I saw this feature requested a number of times in the testing feedback thread ( including from myself ) - great to see FT responding and implementing it so quickly
I have a question about the fingerprint reader, suppose that you need for any reason place a plaster on your finger. Is there a way to use an alternative method to log in just in case?
Great! Thanks for the reply! I’m on Android and even if I have the fingerprint reader I didn’t use it quite yet and one of the reason was that I didn’t want to remain stuck out the phone🤣
I’ve noticed I’m unable to login with my fingerprint on the Android app - has been this way for a few months now. I did previously have this functionality though, and can’t seem to find an option to add this again?
I don’t think you need to completely reinstall. If you log out properly from the account page so that you have to get an email link to log in again that usually fixes it