Good news for Singaporean as you will be able to use this apps to access into hundreds of e-government services just by scanning your fingerprints or faces.
This has come handy and this has help to remove the hassle of remembering passwords.
This apps – SingPass Mobile is developed by GovTech, the agency behind public sector tech transformation and it was launched on Monday (Oct 22), an app developed by GovTech but the only setback is that the user would had trouble setting up their SingPass Mobile accounts.
The GovTech’s chief executive, Mr Kok Ping Soon, in a statement earlier on Monday
The new SingPass Mobile app will offer a more convenient log-in option, as users no longer need to enter their passwords to log in
This will reduce the password reset which is a common problem to the user where GovTech said it receives 150,000 requests from SingPass users to reset their passwords every month.
It is reported that there are 3.3 million SingPass users today where they can still log in using passwords, as there will be a transition period for people to migrate to biometric authentication.
The new SingPass Mobile app is available on both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Its fingerprint scanning feature works with all devices, but facial scanning works only on Apple iOS devices.
Here is a short video on this new feature from SingPass:
Here is how you can use the apps:
- Download the SingPass Mobile app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.
- A one-time set-up on the app requires users to enter their existing SingPass username and password, and then a one-time password delivered via SMS or their OneKey security token.
- Users will be prompted to create a permanent six-digit PIN which they need to remember. The PIN will be required if fingerprint or facial scanning fails.
- SingPass Mobile’s fingerprint scanning feature works with all devices, but facial scanning works only on Apple iOS devices.
- For logging in on computers, look for a QR code on the home page of the e-service. Use the SingPass Mobile app to scan the QR code. Verify your identity with fingerprint or facial scanning. Logging in is then done.
- When logging into app-based services, look for a QR code on the e-service’s home page. Tap the QR code to launch the SingPass Mobile app automatically. Verify your identity with fingerprint or facial scanning. Logging in is then done. On Android devices, users will be brought back to the e-service automatically. Users of Apple devices need to manually go back to the e-service app.
- GovTech’s subsidiary Assurity Trusted Solutions is the National Certificate Authority to issue digital certificates to the rightful SingPass Mobile user. Assurity – also the issuer of the OneKey security token – acts like a trusted electronic notary telling everyone who the valid users are and what their digital signatures look like to secure e-transactions.
So if you’re one of those who having trouble remembering the password, make sure you make use of this new feature from SingPass now!