Apple’s iPhone and iPad can be unlocked using just your fingerprint. Here’s how to set up the fingerprint scanner on an iPhone and how to use Touch ID. Read next: How to fix Touch ID fingerprint ...

The iPhone 5s wasn’t the first smartphone to offer a fingerprint scanner, but it’s undoubtedly the most popular one to date. In fact, it’s so popular that Touch ID is now driving massive growth in the ...

My single favorite feature of the iPhone 5s is the Touch ID fingerprint scanner, which lets you unlock your device with the tap of a finger. So when Samsung recently sent me its new Galaxy Tab S 10.5″ ...

The newly announced iPhone 5s will feature the Touch ID fingerprint scanner, but will it lead to better security or just more headaches? Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of topics ...

Samsung hasn’t officially launched its next-gen smartphone, the Galaxy S5, just yet but the comparisons to Apple’s latest model are already starting. The S5 features a fingerprint-reader much like the ...

If you’ve ever seen a grisly spy movie (or the most recent season of Orange is the New Black) you might be familiar with the concept of cutting off or otherwise erasing one’s fingerprints in order to ...

Many of Apple’s phones (anything from the iPhone 5s to the iPhone 8 Plus), a large chunk of its iPads and even some of its laptops have Touch ID – the firm’s proprietary fingerprint sensing technology ...

As I wrote this weekend, I am one of the unfortunate minority for whom the Touch ID fingerprint scanner on the new iPhone 5S is not working swimmingly. In my case it's been almost a full fail. Of the ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Apple is widely expected to adopt a bezel-less display with its next iPhone, a redesign that all but ...

Fingerprint scanning is hot right now. The iPhone 5S pushed the concept into the limelight last fall, and now Samsung’s competing Galaxy S5 has a built-in sensor as well. Everyone wants a piece of the ...