Enter your Samsung Galaxy S6 PIN instead of your fingerprint – Android 6.0.1
You will find something different if you are the user of the fingerprint sensor to open your lock screen as well as after you have updated the Samsung Galaxy S6 to the new Android Marshmallow 6.0.1.
Here are the differences:
When your Samsung S6 restarts, you will have these messages on the display saying that you should enter PIN instead of using fingerprint recognition after resuming. It can be said that you are not able to unlock your Galaxy S6 with your fingerprint; you need to enter your formerly set pin.
This happens with Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 after you succeed to reboot the device. Then, after you enter your smartphone pin you can unlock your device by fingerprint as usual. Now, you will question whether you can inactive the feature to unlock your device? Of course NO. This is a security feature that make you input the pin or by fingerprint after a restart. It may reverse in one of the upcoming firmware updates but not this setting. Therefore, you now have understood thee reason why after you restart you Samsung Galaxy S6 you cannot unlock it by fingerprint but with a pin.
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