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.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I never had the displeasure to actually use it, but apparently it was even worse on the Pixel 6. Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are basically the same as the Pixel 7a regarding the fingerprint reader.

    • spacedogroy@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It blows my mind that they shipped it on the 7 and 7 Pro. It’s not really acceptable on a mid range phone, let alone a premium one.

    • jacktherippah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have a 6 Pro and mine seems to work fine even with a screen protector. It doesn’t work when my finger is wet but otherwise it’s fast and works like 95% of the time.