Can you wear out your fingerprints?

Badly Drunk Boy

Oi! No! Not like that!:pac:

I'm just fed up with my pre-programmed fingerprints not working on my phone. It's not usually a problem but with constant hand-washing, my fingertips will be different-ish.

When I was a child, my elder sibling made me complicit in making a baby sibling touch a hot light bulb. (I was very young). And his actual fingerprints disappeared (but re-appeared). And I told him.

But why do I have to re-program my phone so often?

unhappys10

Save the same print twice, that sorts it.
Fun fact, when I was small I had pretty bad eczema on my hands, prints disappeared altogether for long periods.

Central Services

Badly Drunk Boy, if that is who you really are, it is more often
finger placement(ooeerrr missus) than disappearing finger prints
that causes the problem.

Badly Drunk Boy

I'm using the right-hand index finger usually. Even though I do, I should probably clean the sensor more frequently...

LeYouth

Would there be anything to be said for a numeric password, or a traceable pattern..

Ach to hell with that, will just take the paint stripper to my finger tips. That'll work. Get her done.

biko

Maybe you have adermatoglyphia?

d-don

Yup mine are rubbed out , got pulled in jfk and held for a hour because I have no visible finger prints and every time I go to the states when they scan my finger prints they look sideways at the screen baffled but there is a note on my file to say they confirmed I’m ok, the joys of a tradesman

JohnnyFlash

I’d say a fair percentage of the punters around here have fingerprints on their flute from all the **** they do.

is_that_so

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Oi! No! Not like that!:pac:

I'm just fed up with my pre-programmed fingerprints not working on my phone. It's not usually a problem but with constant hand-washing, my fingertips will be different-ish.

When I was a child, my elder sibling made me complicit in making a baby sibling touch a hot light bulb. (I was very young). And his actual fingerprints disappeared (but re-appeared). And I told him.

But why do I have to re-program my phone so often?

Local gym has images of all ten prints some members for the finger scan and a code just in case it doesn't recognise them.

Esel

d-don wrote: »

Yup mine are rubbed out , got pulled in jfk and held for a hour because I have no visible finger prints and every time I go to the states when they scan my finger prints they look sideways at the screen baffled but there is a note on my file to say they confirmed I’m ok, the joys of a tradesman

I knew a guy (in his eighties), no dabs because of a severe condition contracted from chrome-plated metal - he was a professional drummer all his life. He used to get grilled on every entry to the US - they must have thought he was a retired Mafia hitman!