Apply Touch ID on iPhone and iPad

Learn how to set up and utilise Touch ID, a fingerprint identity sensor that makes it easy for yous to become into your device.

  • Set up Bear on ID

  • Employ Touch ID

  • Manage settings

Where is the Bear on ID sensor?

The Touch ID sensor is either in the Home push or—on iPad Air (4th generation) and later and iPad mini (6th generation)—the top push. When you follow the steps below, your device'south onscreen instructions will tell y'all which button to use. If y'all're not sure, larn which button is which on your iPad.

Set Bear on ID

Earlier you tin can prepare up Touch ID, you need to create a passcode for your device.* So follow these steps:

  1. Make sure that the Affect ID sensor and your finger are clean and dry.
  2. Tap Settings > Affect ID & Passcode, then enter your passcode.
  3. Tap Add a Fingerprint and hold your device as you normally would when touching the Bear upon ID sensor.
  4. Touch the Touch on ID sensor with your finger—but don't press—and so the device can begin recognizing your fingerprint. Concord your finger there until y'all feel a quick vibration, or until y'all're asked to lift your finger.
    The initial setup screen for Touch ID
  5. Continue to lift and residuum your finger slowly, making small adjustments to the position of your finger each fourth dimension.
  6. The side by side screen asks you to adjust your grip. Agree your device equally you commonly would when unlocking it, and impact the Affect ID sensor with the outer areas of your fingertip, instead of the center portion that you lot scanned first.
    The step of the Touch ID setup process accounts for a user's unique grip

If you accept trouble enrolling one finger, try another. Still need assistance setting upward Bear on ID?

* Affect ID and Face ID are available on certain iPhone and iPad models.

Use Touch ID to unlock your iPhone or make purchases

Later you gear up Touch ID, yous tin use Touch ID to unlock your iPhone. Just press the Touch ID sensor using the finger that you registered with Impact ID.

Paying for a song in the iTunes Store using Touch ID

Make purchases with Affect ID

You can use Touch ID instead of your Apple ID password to brand purchases in the iTunes Shop, App Store, and Apple Books. Only follow these steps:

  1. Make sure that iTunes & App Store is turned on under Settings > Touch ID & Passcode. If you can't plough information technology on, you might need to sign in with your Apple ID in Settings > iTunes & App Store.
  2. Open up the iTunes Store, App Store, or Apple Books.
  3. Tap something to buy. You'll receive a Touch ID prompt.
  4. To make a purchase, lightly impact the Touch ID sensor.

Utilise Bear upon ID for Apple tree Pay

With an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus or after, you tin can use Touch ID to make Apple Pay purchases in stores, within apps, and on websites in Safari. You can also use Bear on ID on your iPhone to complete website purchases with your Mac. If you lot take an iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 or afterwards, iPad (fifth generation) or afterward, or iPad mini iii or later, you can use Touch on ID for Apple Pay purchases inside apps and on websites in Safari.

Manage your Touch ID settings

Become to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode to manage these settings:

In Settings, a user chooses which iPhone features to enable with Touch ID

  • Plow Touch on ID on or off for Passcode, iTunes & App Store, or Apple Pay.
  • Enroll upwards to five fingerprints. Each new print might make fingerprint recognition take slightly longer.
  • Tap a fingerprint to rename information technology.
  • Tap a fingerprint, and so tap Delete Fingerprint to remove it.
  • Identify a fingerprint in the list by touching the Touch ID sensor. The matching impress in the list will be highlighted briefly.

Press the Impact ID sensor using Bear upon ID to unlock your device. To unlock your device using Bear on ID without pressing the Touch ID sensor, go to Settings > Accessibility > Dwelling house Push button [or top button] and turn on Rest Finger to Open up.

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