Confirm a Passkey question for me
Am I right in thinking that Passkeys are (right now at least), an alternative method to sign into an account?
Eg, If I set up a passkey for my Google account, that a Passkey won't be the sole method to access my account?
I ask this as there is no Passkey support on iOS or Android at present.
I think i'm right here but just want a yes or no confirmation.
Thanks
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Hello @rctneil! 👋
Whether or not a passkey will be the only way to login to a specific website will depend on each individual website and how they setup passkeys. For Google specifically, you can add a passkey as an option but you can still login using other methods such as a username and password.
We're in the early days of passkey adoption, most websites will likely offer multiple ways to sign in (especially for account recovery) for quite some time.
-Dave
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Perfect, Thanks. Really looking forward to being able to use my keys stored in 1Password on iOS.
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Me too! If you haven't seen it already then we recently published a sneak peak at what passkeys on iOS 17 will look like: Passkeys, iOS 17, and 1Password: A Sneak Peek at What’s Coming
-Dave
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Oh and by the way, is there likely to be a Passkeys sub forum? Could be useful!
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That's an interesting idea, I believe that the current plan is to discuss passkeys in their respective platform categories here in the community. I don't think of passkeys as something that are supplementary to passwords but as something that we all hope will replace passwords so creating a separate category doesn't seem quite right.
But the plan could change in the future and I've passed your suggestion along to the team. 🙂
-Dave
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