What does the toggle Biometric Auth do?

What does the toggle Biometric Auth do?

Biometric Auth is used to prevent unauthorised access to your Olarm devices by using your phones authentication method for verifying your identify. 

Toggling Biometric Auth will result in the Olarm App using the same authentication method set as default on your mobile device.

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