Android Phone: Android Marshmallow OS or newer Android Tablet: Android Nougat OS or newerģ. Windows Tablet/PC: Windows 10 OS Creators update or newerĢ. The description continues, stating that the following devices support Samsung Flow:ġ. You can also turn on the smartphone's mobile hotspot to keep your Tablet/PC connected.” You can authenticate your Tablet/PC with your smartphone, share content between devices, and sync notifications from your smartphone to your Tablet/PC. The app’s description explains that, “Samsung Flow is a software product that enables a seamless, secure, connected experience across your devices. You then need the latest Samsung Flow at the Google Play store, the app that manages the magic in the background between both phone and PC. In addition, plenty of Windows PCs have had fingerprint readers for years, and various higher-end models still do today, but there’s probably many more Samsung Galaxy owners using Windows PCs without fingerprint readers that could greatly enjoy using this capability.Īll of that said, Samsung has now made it possible to just use your fingerprint scanner to unlock your Windows 10 PC, but as usual, there are some minor caveats, with the main one being that you’ll need the latest Windows 10 Creators Update for the system to work – so please make sure your Windows 10 is definitely updated first to avoid disappointment. Those articles are from 2014, but if you’re keen, you can see whether they still work in 2017 – I’m sure there would have been updates.Īlso, owners of any MacBook Pro with Touch Bar have a built-in Touch ID fingerprint reader on their Macs. You can find info on those at HowtoGeek here and Redmond Pie here.

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