6 iPhone Apps That Use TouchID to Make Your Life Easier

Apple ’s TouchIDfingerprint recognitionlets you lock your phone James Bond - panache , using biometrics . It ’s cool and total an redundant level of security , so it makes common sense that apps are spring to integrate it . Here are some of the best apps that take advantage of TouchID to keep your shit on lockdown :

Dropbox

Dropboxrecently updatedits iOS app to let people unlock their accounts with their fingermark . This is coming afterhundreds of Dropbox passwordswere exposed last week . It ’s a good time to exchange your word anyways , so might as well get the update and make your watchword your fingerprint .

Amazon

When you make a leverage on Amazon , you have to enter a watchword . If you turn on TouchID onAmazon ’s iOS app , now you could buy stuff from your phone just by holding up your finger . Which is to say this actually might be a terrible carrying out of TouchID if you have an unfortunate preference for impulse online shopping .

Mint

Mint is an extremely useful finance - tracking app ( that can also be the most depressing app you ever open , look on how wild you go with impulse Amazon buy ) . Because it tracks your bank building account , credit cards , and credit grudge , it ’s especially of import to keep your Mint log - in secure . Which is why it ’s a good thing you’re able to habituate TouchID to fingerprint - protect your account .

Evernote

Evernote is a gravid means to file away and organize your thoughts , to - do lists , exposure , and text file , so it ’s not an app you need just anyone open up on your phone . Fortunately TouchID capability both protects your stuff and offer a quicker way to open up Evernote .

eHarmony

Online geological dating is , at this point , whole mainstream and un - mortifying . Still , your idiot friends might pick up your headphone and mean it ’s a great prank to upgrade your profile to read “ concerned in large honest-to-goodness hind end . ” And while that might not be untrue , you ’re still better off adding an extra layer of security measure in case of romanticist meddlers , which is why eHarmonyoffers TouchID integrating . Tinder really needs to get aboard the TouchID train too . Nobody needs to see who you ’ve matched up with for potential love and sex times but you .