If you have a Samsung latest generation phone, it is advisable to clear your fingerprints

Notice to owners of a Samsung phone. The South Korean company recommends users of several of its high-end smartphone models to erase all fingerprints stored in their device, because of a fault in the recognition system to unlock the phone by third parties.

Samsung advises users of Galaxy Note10, 10+ and Galaxy S10, S10 +, and S10 5G smartphones to "erase all existing fingerprints". And this, before recording them again, said the company.

The problem is related to some silicone screen protectors, which disturb the fingerprint sensors. Samsung has called to "avoid" to use these protections "until the update of the software, to be published from next week".

Indeed, the South Korean giant had assured that it would very soon launch a correction update, without being able to clarify the cause of this flaw, unveiled earlier this week by a British.

Owner of an S10, she explained to The Sun daily that her smartphone could be unlocked by someone else simply by using a screen protector to deflect fingerprint recognition.

Yet the world's No. 1 on the smartphone market had presented its new sensor as "revolutionary".