From the course: Biometric Authentication for iOS in Swift
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LocalAuthentication policies
From the course: Biometric Authentication for iOS in Swift
LocalAuthentication policies
- [Instructor] So now let's talk a little bit about these policies. We've looked at Device Owner Authentication with Biometrics, and that's what we've been using in our app. And if we hit Control, Command, and click on there, we can see it's definition. We can also see it was introduced in IOS Eight and then in IOS Nine we got Device Owner Authentication. So this allows for authentication with or without biometrics, but these two are the ones that are available for our policies, and these are the two that we want to use. Now, when we use Device Owner Authentication with Biometrics, I like to think of that as having an only on the end. We're only going to let the user authenticate themself as the device owner with biometrics, so either touch ID or face ID, no passcode. And if we look at the Help on it, we can see that tapping the Cancel or Fallback button causes it to fail, so again, no presentation of the passcode entry. You can also look and see that if they're not enrolled, or if…
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