The laws surrounding 5th Amendment protections and biometric passwords are still undecided, so just turn it off.

It’s frustrating to no end that fingerprints and face ID are treated like passwords when they should be treated like usernames.

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They make sense as a 2FA. It would be really cool if I could require either PIN+fingerprint or a long recovery password.

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