I’m using auth0/auth0-react 1.6.0 with the loginWithRedirect method and New Universal Login + Identifier first + Biometrics. I’m passing in a login_hint with the user’s email, and when the user lands on the page, it autofills the email and prompts for a password. The problem is, what if this user ha…

[image] nicolas_sabena: Hi @cadin . There’s no good way to do what you are after as of now, as you said login_hint will take the user to the password authentication page directly when using New Universal Login. I think this is good feedback for the Product team though. Would you mind filing thi…

Hi @cadin . There’s no good way to do what you are after as of now, as you said login_hint will take the user to the password authentication page directly when using New Universal Login. I think this is good feedback for the Product team though. Would you mind filing this feature request at Auth0: …

Thanks Nicolas. Does this mean you/team aren’t aware of any way to forward a user directly to a biometric or Face ID screen (assuming they have set up/enabled Face ID on their Auth0 account)?

That is correct, there’s no way to send the user to the WebAuthn prompt directly.

You can always advocate for that by creating a Feedback card in our Feedback category here: Feedback Submit and vote on product feedback and feature requests.

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Passing login_hint to New Universal Login page always prompts password

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cadin September 27, 2021, 1:59pm 6

I’ve created a Feedback post for anyone that finds this thread and has a similar need so they can vote on it. Thanks team!

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