Touch ID problem after macOS Sequoia 15.7.1 update

It appears to be a flaw in the OS, mostly experienced on older Intel Macs but others have reported it. The symptoms seem to be:

• Sometimes works as expected, touch ID is offered immediately as an option when waking the laptop.
• Sometimes, initially offers only password entry as option, but after waiting for 5-10 seconds (some have indicated a bit longer than that), then both password and touch ID are offered as options to get past lock screen. During that short delay, the user images flash off and on a few times, finally stabilizing with touch ID offered to use.

I see this on an Intel MacBook Pro 16" 2019.

It seems moralize a mild inconvenience than anything else because no real harm derives from it.

If you can't use touch ID at all, that's a different issue.

Yep, it has been confirmed. Waiting 5-7 seconds for me will always show the Touch ID prompt. The next update to Mac OS 15 has already gone through the beta process and currently listed as a Release Candidate. We cannot comment on any issues that have been resolved in pre-release software, so I all can recommend is stay tuned.

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