How to use Ionic Biometric Auth to Protect Your App [v5]

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Securing your application with a JWT is sometimes not enough, and you want to make sure that your application shows another sort of protection after a specific time.

You usually see this behaviour in banking apps or password managers, where the app shows a lock screen after putting the app in the background or not using it for some time.

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Therefore, we will implement a time based logout in this Quick Win where users can use biometric authentication (FaceID Touch) to enable the app functionality again.

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