Since I’ve the Macbook Professional 2018 13″ (intel) I take advantage of the Contact ID fairly often, however found that in all subsequent updates since Mojave to Sonoma (5 x replace) that many apps and nonetheless macOS itself asks for a password. The identical applies once I purchased one other Macbook Professional (the 2021 14″ M1 version) two years in the past.
I checked all checkmarks for utilizing Contact ID (see connected screenshot), however in these instances a password remains to be required:
Unlocking the MBP after 48 hours or after a reboot (which is appropriate based on documentation), however generally it already happens the following morning or perhaps a few hours later with out shutting down or rebooting.
That is very annoying, significantly that Apple is advocating a passwordless use of gadgets.
How can I work round this that it solely asks for a password after a reboot or after a greater than 48 hours locked state ?
Furthermore, many third occasion and even builtin apps do not assist Contact ID. Why is there not a setting the place the person can choose per app that every one password prompts are changed by Contact ID, such because the per-app base of e.g. entry to file system.
I discovered one app referred to as SEKey https://github.com/sekey/sekey which permits utilizing Contact ID within the terminal similar to ssh’ing into different servers or utilizing sudo for rooted instructions. Sadly this isn’t maintained since 2017, however regardless of being Intel solely, it does work on an M1 Mac.
