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Can a PWA use biometric authentication?
Can a PWA use biometric authentication?

Learn more about passkeys, fingerprint scanners, facial recognition, and biometric authentication in PWAs.

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Written by Kevin Basset
Updated over a week ago

Absolutely! You can configure your PWA to allow users to sign in using facial recognition (e.g. iOS FaceID), their fingerprint scanner, or any other biometric authentication supported by their device.

Biometric authentication is supported by iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. Most modern browsers even support cross-platform authentication (e.g. start authentication in Chrome on Mac, and complete authentication on your Android phone).

Implementing biometric authentication in a PWA is fairly straightforward. Under the hood, it uses a technology called Passkeys. Check out our Passkey Demo for a hands-on example complemented with by code snippets.

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