Facebook Messenger now lets you lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID; here’s how to enable it- TECHNEPNEWS

Facebook's Messenger app supports Apple's Face ID face recognition tech, also as Touch ID fingerprint scanner.

Facebook Messenger has updated the app for its iOS users with support for biometric identification . With version 274.1, iPhone and iPad users can now lock the device using Face ID or Touch ID, counting on the device’s capabilities. It’s a pleasant feature to stop your private conversations from a lover or a loved one .

Here’s the way to lock Messenger on iOS with Face ID or Touch ID in simple steps.

How to Lock Messenger on iOS with Touch ID or Face ID?

Setting up this feature is basically simple. The feature are often employed by updating the Facebook Messenger app to the newest version, version 274.1, from the App store. In Facebook Messenger, tap your profile picture within the top left. Scroll down and click on Privacy and therefore the tap App Lock.

Tap Require Face ID or Require Touch ID to show on and off. once you enable this toggle, you'll get the choice of whether you would like to lock Facebook Messenger immediately after you exit it or after 1 minute, quarter-hour , or an hour. Select your preferred time and you're done! confine mind that even with App Lock activate , you'll still see message notifications and calls without unlocking the app.

App Lock coming to Facebook Messenger for Android

The Facebook spokesperson has told The Verge that the App Lock feature will come to Android in “the next few months”, allowing Android users to lock their chats behind a biometric/Touch ID or Touch ID identification method.

WhatsApp for iOS already supports Biometrics/Face ID or Touch ID lock feature

Last year, Facebook-owned chat service WhatsApp for iOS was updated with biometric identification . The update allows iPhone users to lock WhatsApp on their smartphone by activating biometrics/Face ID or Touch ID.

How to use Biometrics/Touch ID and Face ID on WhatsApp: 

• Download the newest WhatsApp iOS update.
•  Head to Settings-Account-Privacy-then Screen Lock on your iPhone.
•  Users must choose which biometric identification option they need – Face ID or Touch ID.
•  Choose time duration for Biometrics/Face ID or Touch ID to be required.

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