UK banks remove mobile bank services and apps from Samsung Galaxy S10

In the wake of the discovery of a fatal flaw in the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor used in the Galaxy S10, at least two banks in the United Kingdom have suspended their mobile banking apps for Galaxy S10 users.

National Westminster (NatWest) Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have both pulled their apps from the Google Play Store, but only for Samsung Galaxy S10 users. The banks’ decisions to pull their respective apps were due to security concerns surrounding the flaw in the Galaxy S10’s fingerprint scanner discovered last week. A few other Galaxy S10 users on Reddit also stated that their banking apps had disabled authentication via fingerprint.

A British woman discovered last week that a silicone screen protector allowed anyone to unlock her Galaxy S10, even if the other user had not registered a fingerprint on the device.

Since Samsung released a patch for this problem earlier today, the banks will likely reinstate their mobile apps for Galaxy S10 users.

If you are a customer of NatWest or RBS and own a Galaxy S10, are you able to use your mobile banking app? Have you received the update from Samsung to fix the fingerprint scanner? Let us know in the comments.