Anyone tried Starling Bank?

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  • d123
    d123 Posts: 8,621 Forumite
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    edited 21 August 2017 at 11:23AM
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    armistice wrote: »
    The android app also allows fingerprint access (I have android and have used this since i joined on June.)

    Not on my Android phone it doesn't.

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  • armistice
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    edited 21 August 2017 at 11:41AM
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    If you turn off, 'application passcode' you will find that you can then use fingerprint auth.

    see here: https://community.starlingbank.com/t/android-fingerprint-login/566
  • d123
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    armistice wrote: »
    If you turn off, 'application passcode' you will find that you can then use fingerprint auth.

    see here: https://community.starlingbank.com/t/android-fingerprint-login/566

    Thanks, that's bizarrely counterintuitive, I presume it postdates when I asked Starling and was told it was still a forthcoming feature. You'd expect it would be enabled in the same rational way the iOS version is.

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  • Toe-Jam
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    The starling bank app has everything but the kitchen sink in it, all the bells and whistles, but can't tell you what your balance was last week, or the day before. Contacted support they advised to wait until the end of the month and download a statement.
  • wizzywig27
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    On my S8 it reverts to fingerprint thanks for that
  • bigadaj
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    wizzywig27 wrote: »
    On my S8 it reverts to fingerprint thanks for that

    So presumably a fair bit of the problematic overdraft is due to running a £700 phone?
  • Anthorn
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    Signed up in the iOS app.

    Downloaded app, entered mobile phone number and then the verification code sent to me in an SMS message. The the usual permission for notifications etc., and fingerprint ID. Then advised that a code would be sent to me in 5 days but it arrived next day in an SMS message. Entered email address and verified it from an email, then came address, made a video for ID and photographed my passport both done within the app. And all done.

    It probably took less of my actual time than writing this post took. But again I say, why can't they do electronic ID like most other banks and credit card lenders? So not exactly "everything but the kitchen sink".
  • SnowTiger
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    Big news from Starling today.

    Android users can now add their Starling card to Android Pay.
  • Anthorn
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    Update:

    I got an overdraft facility which appeared in the app yesterday. Accepting it was just a matter of touching the Accept button in the app. Starling's blurb states that they check a CRA and will offer an overdraft if they can. But too early for the search to appear in any CRA yet so I don't know which CRA they searched.

    My only question is related to the virtual card. It looks like it is the same card details as the physical card but I don't really know because there are no details of the virtual card in the app except for the last four digits of the card number. Good to be able to add the virtual card to Apple Pay with the touch of a button but there is nothing else that it can be used for that I can see.
  • wizzywig27
    wizzywig27 Posts: 1,536 Forumite
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    Anthorn wrote: »
    Update:

    I got an overdraft facility which appeared in the app yesterday. Accepting it was just a matter of touching the Accept button in the app. Starling's blurb states that they check a CRA and will offer an overdraft if they can. But too early for the search to appear in any CRA yet so I don't know which CRA they searched.

    My only question is related to the virtual card. It looks like it is the same card details as the physical card but I don't really know because there are no details of the virtual card in the app except for the last four digits of the card number. Good to be able to add the virtual card to Apple Pay with the touch of a button but there is nothing else that it can be used for that I can see.


    They search CallCredit.


    The full card number shows up once you recieve and activate it.
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