iPhone 5s Touch ID Sensor Reported to Lose Accuracy Over Time

This one may be hard to swallow, but some iPhone 5s owners appear to be experiencing a “decay” process with their Touch ID fingerprint sensors, in that the scanner forgets to interpret prints accurately. There are no signs of this problem being widespread, but a a consulting engineer named Dr. Drang reveals on his blog that Apple’s touch ID might be faulty. “I’ve been using Touch ID since I got an iPhone 5s in mid-October,” Drang writes. “Generally speaking, I like it, and I find it faster than the old swipe-and-passcode method, but I’ve felt compelled to reteach it my fingerprints twice already. I know this sounds impossible, but its recognition of my prints seems to decay with time.” Dr. Drang goes to explain that he rescanned his...

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