How do passkey work?

Hey there reck

I'll come to your questions individually for clarity.

1. When I go to a website on my iPhone and it asks me if I want to use a passkey how do I save this through 1Password instead of saving in Safari passwords on the iPhone?

This isn't supported yet. Only iOS 17 will allow you to save passkeys somewhere other than iCloud Keychain and that's not fully released yet. Also, 1Password for iOS will need to be updated to introduce that functionality.

Until both of those things happen, any passkeys you save on your iPhone can only be saved to iCloud Keychain.

1. Now the passkey is saved on my iPhone how do I move or delete and setup again in 1Password?

You can save and use passkeys in the browser on your computer if you're using the beta versions of both the main 1Password app and the browser extension:

☞ Save and sign in with passkeys in your browser (beta)

You'll be able to save a passkey for that website into 1Password, then you can delete the passkey in iCloud Keychain.

1. How do I log into a website on a Windows PC using FaceID on my phone?

If a website supports passkeys (see our website, https://passkeys.directory/ to check), 1Password in the browser will check to see if you have one saved in 1Password first.

If a passkey isn't found on the device you're using, you'll be able to scan a QR code shown on the screen to use a passkey from a different device instead.

So, let's look at this case. Let's assume 1Password's browser extension doesn't have a passkey for the site in question.

You would go to sign in on the website on your computer and choose to use a passkey. Your browser won't find a saved passkey, so it shows a QR code on the screen instead. You scan this QR code using your iPhone to use the passkey saved there, and authorise its use with Face ID. Your iPhone and computer find each other by Bluetooth automatically (no pairing required), and you're signed in on your computer.

When full support for passkeys is available in iOS 17 (and Android 14, also forthcoming), your passkeys will sync through 1Password just like your passwords do now, so you'll only need to use the QR code method if you're signing in on a public device, you're borrowing someone's device, or situations like that.

I hope that answers your questions fully, but please do let me know if I can be of any further help. :)

— Grey