Comment by zimpenfish

> macOS can't use Touch ID from a cold boot

Isn't that because the Secure Enclave (the only place which contains the Touch ID biometric data) is locked by your password?

"When a user's password is set up on an Apple Silicon Mac, the password is passed through a one-way hashing algorithm that produces a key used to encrypt the Secure enclave's key."[0]

[0] https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2023/04/14/the-security-encl...