Following the leak from Google’s SVP earlier this year, Google added an in-display fingerprint scanner to its latest Pixel 6 flagship series. Being the first-ever in-display fingerprint scanner on a Pixel phone, it is an exciting feature, but several users have complained about the fingerprint recognition being slow and finicky. So, in a recent statement, Google accepted that the fingerprint sensor is slow and blamed “enhanced security algorithms” on the Pixel 6 series as the reason for it.
Other Twitteratis suggested that it might be a hardware issue as the Pixel 6 devices use an optical sensor for the in-display fingerprint scanner instead of an ultrasonic sensor, like the one present on the Samsung Galaxy S21. However, Redditors using OnePlus devices that have optical fingerprint scanners report that their scanners work just fine. So, the fingerprint scanner issue on the Pixel 6 series, in theory, should be a software issue.
