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and here we are moving along with our coverage of the Samsung Galaxy s5 with a look at the other hardware edition that was put into the phone the fingerprint scanner hey it's Josh regard from ESRI authority what's going on everybody and this is your future focus on the Samsung Galaxy s5 regarding the finger scanner alright and here we are with the Samsung Galaxy s5 now I figured one of the best ways to really show you what the finger scanner is all about is to just set it up with you right now so I'll go ahead and just jump into the operating system and we're just looking through everything here are the app drawers and whatnot but I'll just jump over to this settings page now as you can see the settings page has been updated it's now all made up of circles and everything is categorized in these pull downs that allow you to kind of easily find the various settings that you're looking for and as you will find here in the personalization area is the finger scanner so let's go ahead and jump right in now once I hit on fingerprints manager in order to register my fingerprint you'll see that it'll tell you what options are available for using your fingers of you know for various functions and the main one here is the fingerprint lock of course but you are also able to verify your Samsung Account with it so if you were to sign in to the Samsung your Samsung Account you can use the fingerprint scanner to have your credentials already in there and it will get you in so we'll just go ahead and jump in now this is where you will actually register your fingerprint so I will probably just use my index finger here and we'll just scan this up to eight times for it to really register that fingerprint so here we go oops yeah you have to start at the screen and come down on the pad of your finger not the tip so you have to just be kind of precise with it it's not all that difficult to be honest and that swipe should be finished all right and this is where you would create a password in case for whatever reason you don't want to use your fingerprint and you'll be able to just create one right now so I'll just do that there you go the fingerprint has been registered so we'll just go ahead and hit OK to select the screen lock the screen lock right here and it says it's medium to high security and that is pretty much true of fingerprint scanners do allow for a little bit more security when it comes to your unlocking of the phone now before I even show you the fingerprint scanner in action to unlock my phone I do want to show you real quick well actually you can see it right there recognized and we're right in you are able to register up to three fingerprints on here so you can maybe have your middle finger or your thumb or something like that now one thing that is important to remember though is that you have to swipe it in that particular way right over the home button down here so if you wanted to register your thumb it's not necessarily that you can turn on the phone and then swipe your thumb in this way that is not true it would have to be like that so the ease of use on there might not be the best but that's the reason why you have that password in there as well so let's go ahead and just head right back one quick thing here you can see that there is the verify Samsung account right here you can enter your fingerprints in there and it will get you in because it knows that it's you and then after that that's pretty much everything - the settings of the fingerprint scanner so I'll just head back to the home page turn off the phone now I will have to say that one thing I wish that this was able to do was kind of always be on so that if you did swipe your finger over it while the screen was off maybe the screen would turn on that would save a little bit of time but that's a little bit of wishful thinking on my part instead you would unlock the phone and then you aren't able to swipe your finger and get right into the operating system so that pretty much does it for the finger scanner I'll show you again maybe one or two more times while I'm wrapping up here stay tuned to Android authority for all of the best coverage especially our coverage of the Samsung Galaxy s5 we are looking at some of the newer features on here and in this case we looked at the finger scanner it is pretty useful in terms of security but the one thing that I would say is it does add a little bit of time when it comes to getting from a prone position into the operating system itself so for some of you out there it might not be the best solution for for getting into your phone quickly but at least it does add that level of security that some people have really wanted so keep it tuned to Android for all the best coverage drop us likes on our videos because we love to see those thumbs up and also remember to subscribe to our channel if you haven't already and to head on to android authority comm for all of the best coverage because we are your source for all things Android