So is the new Touch ID going to be multi user friendly?

[vistokid]

Seems like there's a lot of people out there that share a laptop at home. We do this by having our own accounts/passwords when we log in.

With the iPad you can have different people with Touch ID access but in the end it takes you to the same place.

I would assume the new MBP will be able to take you to your account and your other family members to theirs using Touch ID.

 

[eroslws]

Probably, yeah. It's just another method of authentication; I don't see why it would behave any different than a password. In fact, I wager that the SoC probably sends some sort of password to the computer when you use a valid fingerprint so maybe very little is done on the MacOS side of things.

 

[inhalexhale1]

Seems like there's a lot of people out there that share a laptop at home. We do this by having our own accounts/passwords when we log in.

With the iPad you can have different people with Touch ID access but in the end it takes you to the same place.

I would assume the new MBP will be able to take you to your account and your other family members to theirs using Touch ID.

I would think so. Each account would have a fingerprint tied to it.

 

[vistokid]

Would be a major fail IMHO if this wasn't a feature. Mind you I think it should be a feature on iOS for iPad as well.

 

[New_Mac_Smell]

People still share laptops? I thought that was only back in the days of single computer homes!

I've always viewed a laptop as a personal device, family desktop would be different.

 

[mattopotamus]

People still share laptops? I thought that was only back in the days of single computer homes!

I've always viewed a laptop as a personal device, family desktop would be different.

That is extremely common for households. Hence why it brings you to a login screen with a guest account by default.

I would imagine there would be touchID on all accounts, or at least all ADMIN accounts.