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TL;DR
- Google has announced a small but useful change to the Play Store’s biometric authentication feature for purchases.
- You no longer need to enter your account password when you first set up this feature.
Google has offered biometric support for the Play Store for about a decade, allowing you to authorize purchases using your fingerprint, face, or another form of biometrics. Fortunately, the company has tweaked this feature in the name of convenience.
Google sent an email to users (including us) confirming that they do not need to enter their Google Account password after they first set up biometric authentication to make a purchase on the Play Store.
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The company also urged users to enable biometric authentication for every purchase on the Play Store (instead of only requiring verification every 30 minutes).
In any case, this change is not something you will benefit from every day. But it’s also useful when you upgrade to a new phone, allowing you to instantly perform biometric authentication on purchases in the app store.
Not seeing a change yet? Well, the tech giant says this change will happen in the “coming weeks.” Therefore, you may have to wait a little while for it to appear on your device.
