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I agree with you, but features like this are often the difference have some (decent) security and none at all.

Consider the iPhone prior to TouchID. A lot of people used trivial passcodes, or no passcodes at all.



Apple had numbers a few years ago (2015?). It was something like 95% without passwords before TouchID and only 50% after TouchID.

I know people who consider TouchID too much of a hassle.

This doesn’t need to be a perfect solution, it just needs to be more secure than TouchID (claimed) and more secure than nothing (obviously) while being easy enough people won’t turn it off (we’ll see).




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