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Benefits of Using Biometric Authentication in your Mobile App

Today, many of us are familiar with the concept of biometrics. Mobile device users prefer more biometric methods like fingerprint sensors to unlock their devices, mainly because they simplify the unlocking process.  

As well as fingerprints, your voice, your face, a scan of your retina are also biometric data points. The only requirement is that the measurement of all these must be yours – in this case, your device will be 100% secured.

Expert mobile application development companies work 24/7 and spend millions on developing mobile apps. Perfecting a mobile app isn’t an easy task, for an App to be successful, you have to make sure that it has error-free functionality, the design is flawless and user-friendly, and it adds value to the users. The most important part of mobile app developers is ‘App Security’. Consider a banking app, every time a user accesses their account using the mobile app, they are risking their life’s work by inserting their personal login information.

Mobile biometric authentication is primarly used for mobile banking and e-commerce. For example, if you want to make a bank transfer from the online banking, you can sign it with your fingerprint or face recognition, without needing to enter a password or any personal data. 

PINs and passwords take too long to unlock your smartphone and are not so secure. Everybody could see your password or PIN and get access to your phone, while biometric methods are much harder to fake. This is because there is more than one option for biometric security.   

Technology may be at its peak, but as technology becomes more evolved, the bad guys are also becoming more skilled at breaching your personal information. Biometric security verification for mobile apps is faster and safer as compared to other identity verification methods