Based on industry standards for account authentication, passkeys are easier to use than passwords and far more secure. Developers are adopting passkeys to give people a simple, secure way to sign in to their apps and websites across platforms — with no passwords required.
Since signing in with passkeys uses AutoFill and Face ID or Touch ID for biometric verification, the transition to passkeys is seamless.
When you go to a website on your iPhone or iPad running iOS 16 or a Mac on macOS Ventura that supports Passkeys, the website will not prompt you to enter a password as you may expect it to. Instead, you’ll simply be asked to authenticate with Touch ID or Face ID.
On non-Apple devices, when you go to a website that supports Passkeys, you’ll be asked to scan a QR code with your iPhone and then proceed to use Touch ID or Face ID as your actual password.
MacDailyNews Take: QR codes. Heh. Welcome to 2009, those hamstrung with non-Apple devices. As usual, non-Apple devices cause more friction for their hapless users.
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Well, not just non-Apple devices, but Intel Macs as well are out in the cold. So I wouldn’t float too much, MDN.
Intel?
😂😂😂😂😂
As usual, people who don’t like Apple hamstring themselves with sub-par thinking and sub-par devices, or they actively dislike the Apple devices they voluntarily pay for.
If people who don’t like Apple stuck to their principles and used other devices, it would be better for their own sanity.
But that’s life. It must be like a love/hate relationship for them.
Love to hate.
Are these passkeys “shareble” within a family account?
Is there a site where we can test this?
I have a Mac mini and a Mac full size Bluetooth keyboard and a 3rd party monitor. No Face ID or Touch ID. I have an iPhone and apple watch. How does Passkey work in fort my setup? Or not?