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 **(113) How does biometric authentication work?**
 
 If your device has a biometric sensor, for example a fingerprint sensor, you can enable/disable biometric authentication in the navigation (hamburger) menu of the setup screen.
-When enabled FairEmail will require biometric authentication after a period of inactivity or after the screen has been turned off.
+When enabled FairEmail will require biometric authentication after a period of inactivity or after the screen has been turned off while FairEmail was visible.
 Activity is navigation within FairEmail, for example opening a conversation thread.
 When biometric authentication is enabled only a summary notification with the number of new messages will be shown, so all message content is hidden.