In-display fingerprint sensors have become commonplace in virtually all Android smartphones, for better or for worse, and five years later…

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    8 months ago

    Being able to swipe down the notifications from that button was a great feature

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      8 months ago

      If it’s any consolation, “one handed mode” (at least on pixels) has an option to let you bring the shade down by swiping down on the gesture bar

      Swiping down on the fingerprint scanner was my favorite thing on my pixel 5, for checking notifications or fidgeting with it! I was a little bummed when I eventually upgraded, but found that and it works relatively well

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          8 months ago

          Back tap is pretty sick, I have it set up to trigger my flashlight

          How are the false positives when using your phone and the notification shade? Sometimes I’ll get false positives holding my phone resting against a hard surface and blast whatever’s behind it