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Well, remember the old days where we had fingerprints on iPhones? I remember. My thumb was registered on my wife's phone and hers on mine. Never an issue with sharing a phone.

I'm sorry this happened to you.

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You still had a pin code, in addition to the fingerprint. It's an identical situation.

iOS supports both fingerprinting AND inputting of a PIN ... in iOS?

Did not know that. Then again, not sure how we can do that ... in iOS.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7647773

Seems like only at iOS power up, one cannot do both fingerprint and PIN.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7647773?answerId=305700...

same with facial recognition, isn't it? Don't you have to put in the PIN every now and then? I have an iPhone but I don't use facial.

One would like to think that you can maximize security of your phone by using both:

- what you have, and

- what you know

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