I’ve moved from the Google Pixel 4A, which had an excellent fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone, to the 7A.
I won’t sugarcoat it: in my experience the fingerprint sensor, now an optical sensor on the front of the phone, is near useless. It fails to read my finger/thumb print basically ~95% of the time, which means it can’t be used for any account that may lock the user out following ‘x’ unsuccessful login attempts.
I really don’t get why they shipped the feature with the phone given how unacceptably bad it is to use.
Is this a common opinion shared amongst 7A users? Is there something wrong with my phone, or am I missing something? I’d welcome any advice, as I would quite like to get this working reliably.
Another “tip”… If your fingertip is dry, lightly moisten it, then try the sensor again.
My 7a fingerprint sensor with a Spigen glass screen protecter works fine about 95% of the time. When it doesn’t, quick lick of the fingertip and that usually does the trick.
For my 6a, when it gives me trouble I’ve run my finger against the outside of my nose and tried again - that’s consistently worked for me.