The SMARTY iOS app is a useful way to track data usage, purchase add-ons, manage group plans and much more. However, if one doesn’t use the app for a couple of days, it automatically logs you out, presumably to protect your account and information.
The problem with this is you have to constantly re-enter your full login details (email, password, sometimes 2-factor authentication) just to check something as simple as your remaining data. Plus, every time you log into your account, a security email is sent (for obvious reasons). This all seems too convoluted and unnecessary to me just for an opening an app every few days.
When I was with EE, their app supported a simple 4-digit PIN lock and Face/Touch ID. A quick biometric authentication or PIN entry was enough to get into the app, only logging you out of your account if you were inactive for weeks or months. This to me is a far simpler, more effective and more streamlined process of getting the info you need from an app quickly while still securing your account and information.
I’d like to see SMARTY implement a similar authentication system for their own app. Let us set a PIN and Face/Touch ID to access the app, and stop logging us out of our accounts for 2 days of inactivity. Instead, only log us out after several weeks of inactivity, the rest of the time relying exclusively on PIN/biometric authentication for app access.
I cannot speak for the Google Play app as I don’t have any experience using it.
Thank you for considering my suggestion! I wish the reader a pleasant day.
- Kaiffe