New Delhi, July 20 -- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in a press release dated 18 July, highlighted the growing adoption of the Aadhaar App, which has crossed four crore downloads.

The ministry also said that Aadhaar holders have used the "Biometric Lock/Unlock" feature more than 1.91 crore times, indicating increased awareness around securing personal identity information.

The feature gives users greater control over their Aadhaar-linked biometrics by allowing them to lock or temporarily unlock them as needed, helping reduce the risk of unauthorized biometric authentication.

Biometric Lock is a security feature that enables Aadhaar cardholders to lock their fingerprint, iris and facial authentication li...