Comment by saagarjha

Biometric authentication on Android phones has always seemed to be hit-or-miss: companies looking to add it to their feature checklist either come up with fundamentally flawed designs (storing a fingerprint as an unencrypted image file, etc.) or you have bugs like these. There really needs to be some sort of realignment that incentivizes companies to get this right rather than slap together something broken and try to sell it as “iPhone may have x feature, but we have y (which is buggy, but you don’t know that)”.