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Clarification on authentication #28

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The docs for react-native-sensitive-info, on which this package relies, suggests that the user has to provide authentication info before it allows access to the keychain or shared preferences (eg. fingerprint, touch ID, face recognition). I've deployed this to various devices through testfairy and never get prompted to further authenticate, so am puzzled as to when and why this extra layer of security would kick in. Some clarification would be useful, we'd have to advise our users what to expect if we rolled this out to the stores.

I'm slightly scared where the docs say "Every time the app wants to access the protected keychain item, a prompt by iOS will show up." - we wouldn't want to annoy our users by them having to respond to repeated prompts.

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