Use Touch ID to log into First Direct iOS app

baby_frogmella

FD have just updated their iOS app to enable this feature and it works smoothly on my iphone 6 so no more faffing around with your password. Am i right in saying that FD are the first UK bank/BS to allow users to use touch ID to login?

lee111s

I think so, was pleasantly surprised when I went to log on this morning

GingerBob_3

This is a very bad idea. It will be much easier to force vulnerable people to activate the touchpad then steal their phone, rather than to get a password out of them. Stand by for the first report of some old person's bank account being raided in this manner.

Archi_Bald

My FD app downloaded an update and now says it doesn't recognise my user name and that I am not set up for the digital secure key. Complete ballooney. I have used it ever since it first became available.

EDIT: Now they are not answering the phone. Getting a message saying they are busy. And muzzak.

baby_frogmella

GingerBob wrote: »

This is a very bad idea. It will be much easier to force vulnerable people to activate the touchpad then steal their phone, rather than to get a password out of them. Stand by for the first report of some old person's bank account being raided in this manner.

Absolutely! Just watch old people's fingers being chopped off so that fraudsters can hack into their FD accounts on their iOS devices. I suspect A&E Depts across the country will start to get busy very soon....:rotfl:

Archi_Bald

GingerBob wrote: »

This is a very bad idea. It will be much easier to force vulnerable people to activate the touchpad then steal their phone, rather than to get a password out of them. Stand by for the first report of some old person's bank account being raided in this manner.

that's not an issue as the fingerprint only gives read access to the account

Gizmo247

Works for me!

Santander recently added Touch Id logon to their Spendlytics app which has the same logon criteria as the banking app, so expect Santander to follow soon.

I believe this will become the norm as the launch of the Pay-by-Bank feature Zapp is rolled out on all banking apps which requires a fast logon approach.

Mind you, if Zapp thinks that Apple are going to open up their NFC to 3rd party EPOS in the future, they must be smoking something.

ratechaser

On the question of whether or not FD is the first to do this, I already have Touch ID enabled for my Natwest, Investec and Amex apps.

SnowTiger

GingerBob wrote: »

This is a very bad idea. It will be much easier to force vulnerable people to activate the touchpad then steal their phone, rather than to get a password out of them. Stand by for the first report of some old person's bank account being raided in this manner.

Isn't there an option to disable the feature on the phone or within the app?

Why is there a general assumption and expectation that "old" people are "vulnerable"?

Ballard

Archi_Bald wrote: »

that's not an issue as the fingerprint only gives read access to the account

Someone had better tell my phone then because I've just made a payment using just my fingerprint.

Ballard

SnowTiger wrote: »

Isn't there an option to disable the feature on the phone or within the app?

Why is there a general assumption and expectation that "old" people are "vulnerable"?

Yes. You have to opt in. It will require you to use your password every so often. I'm bound to forget mine now.