>GrapheneOS improves the security of the fingerprint unlock feature by only permitting 5 total attempts rather than implementing a 30 second delay between every 5 failed attempts with a total of 20 attempts. This doesn't just reduce the number of potential attempts but also makes it easy to disable fingerprint unlock by intentionally failing to unlock 5 times with a different finger.
Loved Graphene, and the Pixel worked flawlessly, but man, that unlock thing drove me nuts more than a few times.
Though with all the devices GrapheneOS supports, there are only two fingers you can plausibly use with the device: the thumb, usually on your dominant hand. It is quite awkward to be using anything else.
All this biometric talk in the world and it’s rarely made convenient for the user like this.
It was likely almost as fast as a physical keyboard smartphone for instant entry into an app.
Cut to my phone failing to recognize the fingerprint whenever it feels like or maybe because the humidity is 0.5% from the ideal value
sigh