iOS 7.0.1 fixes iPhone 5s Touch ID issue

As new iPhones launch today, Apple has flipped the switch on an iOS 7 0.1 update to fix a minor issue with the iPhone 5s’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor while delivering “bug fixes and improvements”. The maintenance firmware update is exclusive to the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c and users will be prompted to install it upon booting up their brand spanking new device. The iOS 7.0.1 update isn’t available for iPhones other than the new ones. I’ve included additional tidbits after the jump..
The iOS 7.0.1 update is available both as an over-the-air update via the iPhone 5c/5s’s Settings > General > Software Update, or through iTunes when connected to a Mac or PC running the newly released iTunes 11.1.
Reviewers noted that iOS 7 on the iPhone 5s would sometimes insist on authorizing iTunes purchases with a user’s Apple ID credentials, even upon the successful biometric authorization via the Touch ID fingerprint scanning.
Walt Mossberg, the outgoing Wall Street Journal technology columnist (you haven’t heard?), noted the bug in his iPhone 5s review:

There is one bug in the system: Sometimes, while trying to use a finger to authenticate an online purchase, the phone asks for a password. Apple says it expects to fix this bug very quickly.

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