Trouble using Touch ID with iOS 9.1? You're not the only one.

<img alt="15709701215_7ac0f1bce5_k" height="359" src="http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE1LzExLzA2LzhlLzE1NzA5NzAxMjE1LjU3Y2QxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/684b044c/9c8/15709701215_7ac0f1bce5_k.jpg" width="640" /><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"> Don't call it Touch ID-gate, but more than a handful of users report a similar problem.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"> A handful of users in Apple's Support Communities <a href="https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?type=discussion&showAnsweredFirst=true&q=touch+id+9.1" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">report</a> that Touch ID is buggy and unresponsive with iOS 9.1. Users say Touch ID works more slowly — and often not at all — when updating to iOS 9.1 from a previous iOS version.</div> <div class="see-also" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <div class="inline-ad-seealso" style="margin: 0px 18.75px 0px auto; max-width: 625px;"> </div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"> While many users on Apple's Support Communities and some on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/search?q=touch+id+ios+9.1&restrict_sr=on" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Reddit</a> are reporting similar issues, it doesn't seem to be widespread. A quick poll of the <em>Mashable</em> office revealed only three cases of this issue, including issues with my own device.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"> I began noticing Touch ID performance issues on my personal iPhone 6S after installing iOS 9.1. When first using the phone with iOS 9, Touch ID unlocked the phone instantaneously. With iOS 9.1, Touch ID responded much more infrequently with manual passcode inputs often required. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="an-attempt-to-rectify" style="color: #00aeef;"></a></div> <blockquote class="microcontent-wrapper pullquote" style="border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px !important; clear: left; color: #777777; float: left; height: auto; margin: 15px 15px 35px -125px; max-width: 45%; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; position: relative; width: 400px;"> <div class="microcontent-shares" data-description="An attempt to rectify the Touch ID issue with the iOS 9.2 Public Beta didn't produce any positive results." data-fragment="an-attempt-to-rectify" data-url="" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease; background: rgb(246, 245, 241); height: 0px; left: -47px; opacity: 0; padding: 5px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease; width: 30px;"> <a class="social-share microcontent-share-badge network-badge network-badge-facebook facebook" href="http://mashable.com/2015/11/06/touch-id-ios-9-1-bugs/?utm_cid=mash-prod-nav-sub-st#" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; color: #3b579d; display: inline-block; font-size: 3rem; height: 30px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 2px; padding: 0px !important; position: relative; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -9900px; transition: color 0.3s ease; white-space: nowrap; width: 30px;"></a><a class="social-share microcontent-share-badge network-badge network-badge-twitter twitter" href="http://mashable.com/2015/11/06/touch-id-ios-9-1-bugs/?utm_cid=mash-prod-nav-sub-st#" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; color: #2daae1; display: inline-block; font-size: 3rem; height: 30px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 2px; padding: 0px !important; position: relative; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -9900px; transition: color 0.3s ease; white-space: nowrap; width: 30px;"></a></div> </blockquote> <span class="microcontent" data-description="An attempt to rectify the Touch ID issue with the iOS 9.2 Public Beta didn't produce any positive results." data-fragment="an-attempt-to-rectify" data-micro="1">An attempt to rectify the Touch ID issue with the iOS 9.2 Public Beta didn't produce any positive results.</span><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"> To rule out the possibility of my fingers being the issue, I set up Touch ID on an iPhone 6S review unit at the <em>Mashable</em>offices, also running iOS 9.1. Unlike my phone, the review unit worked flawlessly.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"> Some users, including two <em>Mashable</em> staffers, report that Touch ID is especially problematic with specific apps as well as the App and iTunes stores. On my phone, I've had issues across the board, including Apple Wallet.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"> A representative for Apple has yet to respond to a <em>Mashable</em> request for comment.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"> Unfortunately for users experiencing these issues, there doesn't seem to be a currently available solution as this is very likely a software issue. Even though the iOS 9.2 Public Beta didn't fix the issue on my particular phone, it doesn't mean that the final build of iOS 9.2 won't fix the problem.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"> This isn't worthy of a -gate suffix yet, but this issue is common enough to be noteworthy.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4545450210571px; line-height: 20.4545440673828px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"> <em>Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.</em></div>

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