The original post: /r/android by /u/guerlando on 2025-01-21 02:17:37.

I’m from Brazil and thieves force you to tell your PIN with a gun to your head then take your phone. Android always allows for the fingerprint to be bypassed by the PIN so there’s no way to protect from this. Also they get into your messaging apps and start asking relatives for money, not to mention looking for photos for extortion. People’s bank accounts are being drained.

Android Identity Check is nice but much more needs to be done to enforce biometric only unlock of the phone and let people lock apps with biometric authentication easily. But most importantly, it needs to be convenient otherwise people will not use for everyday apps like Whatsapp.

On iOS it’s possible to lock all apps with Face ID which is more convenient because you can switch between them all day and you don’t even notice face id is there. On Android people would only lock some apps but today our information is all in WhatsApp which no one would put behind a fingerprint because they use it all day. Android should use AI to detect faces if it does not want to include 3D face scanning like Face ID, but it needs it.Also apps should be able to enforce biometric only authentication if they want, something which is not possible today. Also prevent phone calls to be answered with the phone locked as 2FA codes can be received over phone calls.

Android meeds much better al security against thieves by enforcing biometric only authentication but google seems to not care much about this, or maybe manufacturers as well ehich never implemented face scanning technology. Is there a way to convince google? Samsung? Can this reach a google employee eith power to change?