Chrome Brings Fingerprint Connection to MacBook Pro and Android Phones

Another use of the fingerprint sensor on your MacBook Pro or Android phone: a password-free way to connect to websites and web apps with the help of Chrome web browser. According to the official Google blog, fingerprint web authentication is now enabled by default for Android and MacOS. (No word on Windows laptops or iOS devices yet.)

Fingerprint scanning can be used as a simpler alternative to entering your password or as an additional layer of security with two-factor authentication.

It seems that Google has recently focused on digitizing fingerprints for the Web. Last year, he added fingerprint scanning to Chrome's operating system – note that Chrome OS differs from Google's Chrome web browser, but both are Internet browsers – even if no Chromebook has a fingerprint sensor. This month, the Chrome OS code was spotted with reference to fingerprint detection as an "employment-ready experience".

This could imply that some future Chromebooks will have a fingerprint scanner. Interestingly, it happens at about the same time as we heard rumors about an upcoming Pixelbook 2 and new Chrome OS tablets.

And it turns out that Google invited us to a hardware event on October 9th. We are mainly waiting new Pixel phones, but the Google hardware event of last year also introduced the Google Pixelbook convertible laptop.

According to the Google calendar, Chrome 70 is expected to come out of beta in mid-October.