14 DAY TRIAL // Google has recently updated Google Chrome browser with support for Windows Hello for payments, which means that you can now use face unlocking to access cards that are stored in the app.
Google Pay is offered at browser level in Google Chrome, and if any cards are added, you can easily autofill all the information when trying to make a payment.
More recently, however, the search giant rolled out a new feature specifically aimed at Windows 10 users which enables them to use Windows Hello instead of CVC when making a payment. In other words, Microsoft’s biometric authentication system is now used for confirming cards, as long as the feature exists on the device that’s being used to make the payment.
While Google hasn’t announced the feature just yet, Owen Williams says on Twitter that it’s already available in the beta build of Chrome and should make its way to the stable version of the browser rather sooner than later.
No Windows Hello in Microsoft Edge
Others claim this isn’t just limited to the latest version of Chrome but can also be enabled in the previous releases, such as Chrome 81. At the time of writing, Windows Hello is missing for me in Google Chrome 83, and it doesn’t seem to show up in Canary and Beta builds either.
Windows Hello is already enabled on my device and I use it to log in to Windows.
While Google is apparently rolling out Windows Hello in Chrome, ironically, Microsoft isn’t yet working on this feature. The Microsoft Edge team confirmed recently in an AMA session on reddit that it’s not yet working on a feature to verify payments with Windows Hello.
“We don’t have any plans to enable this functionality today, but I’ll make sure that this suggestion finds its way to the right team!” the team explained.