Fingerprint Sensor Trouble? Try This...

I mentioned this a while back deep in another thread, and thought it might bear repeating. Here's how I solved my problem with the fingerprint sensor:

When I had trouble with the fp sensor (maybe because I get dry hands in the winter), instead of overwriting my old thumbprint, I added my thumbprint as though it were another finger. Each time it stopped working, I would "add another finger" to the list (all of them my right thumb). I have 3 or 4 prints of the same thumb now, and the sensor is near 100% for me.

I saw in another thread that when you're looking at your list of fingerprints in the touch id settings and press a finger to the sensor, if there's a match in the list it'll be highlighted momentarily. When I do this with my multiple thumbprints, any one of them might light up depending on how I make contact, but one of them always does.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before -- I solved my problem early on, so I haven't read through all the fp sensor threads.

 

Glad to hear it helped!

I would expect it works fine as is for most people, or it would be one of those "-gate-named" scandals. This info is for those having trouble -- I tried to capture that in the thread title.

Maybe they didn't know how to delete a stored fingerprint??? Otherwise, I don't know why you'd have to be sure it's a good idea before trying it. If you try it, and it doesn't work, it's not a good idea, and you easily go back to how you had it before.