Package
expo-local-authentication
Provides an API for FaceID and TouchID (iOS) or the Fingerprint API (Android) to authenticate the user with a face or fingerprint scan.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 976.1k
- +443% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 1
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 13 days ago
- v57.0.3
- GitHub stars
- 52.4k
- 14.2k forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 326 / 596
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 6,419
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
976,076 downloads last week, 4,982,920 in the last month. The 12-month change of +443% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 3293 in total
- Latest version
- 57.0.3, 11 Sept 202613 days ago
- First published
- 3 Sept 2018
- Last push to GitHub
- 25 Sept 2026same day as the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 326
- Open pull requests
- 596
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 6,419
- Dependents on npm
- 43
Major versions
- v58 first release 58.0.0, 10 Sept 2026
- v57 first release 57.0.0, 25 Jun 2026
- v56 first release 56.0.0, 5 May 2026
- v55 first release 55.0.0, 21 Jan 2026
- v17 first release 17.0.0, 13 Aug 2025
- v16 first release 16.0.0, 4 Apr 2025
- v15 first release 15.0.0, 22 Oct 2024
- v14 first release 14.0.0, 18 Apr 2024
- v13 first release 13.0.0, 25 Oct 2022
- v12 first release 12.0.0, 28 Sept 2021
- v11 first release 11.0.0, 10 Mar 2021
- v10 first release 10.0.0, 15 Jan 2021
- v9 first release 9.0.0, 3 Mar 2020
- v8 first release 8.0.0, 2 Dec 2019
- v7 first release 7.0.0, 19 Sept 2019
- v6 first release 6.0.0, 27 Jul 2019
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 29 May 2019
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 14 Mar 2019
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 27 Feb 2019
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 4 Jan 2019
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 11 Sept 2018
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 57.0.3 | 11 Sept 2026 |
| 58.0.0 | 10 Sept 2026 |
| 55.0.18 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| 17.0.9 | 17 Aug 2026 |
| 55.0.17 | 17 Aug 2026 |
| 56.0.5 | 23 Jul 2026 |
| 57.0.2 | 22 Jul 2026 |
| 55.0.16 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| 57.0.1 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| 57.0.0 | 25 Jun 2026 |
| 55.0.15 | 25 Jun 2026 |
| 56.0.4 | 21 May 2026 |
| 55.0.14 | 13 May 2026 |
| 56.0.3 | 6 May 2026 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 137 kB
- Dependencies (1)
invariant- Peer dependencies (1)
expo
npm install expo-local-authentication- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/expo-local-authentication@57.0.3/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/expo-local-authentication@57.0.3/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/expo-local-authentication@57.0.3
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Indexability: Indexed.