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AZBigdog
5 months agoNew Contributor
Passkey dependency on phone
Before jumping on the passkey bandwagon I'm trying to understand a little better how they work. From what I understand, it "replaces" your password with this passkey. To use your passkey, it requires...
1P_Dave
Moderator
5 months agoThanks for clarifying. While you can use your phone to sign in to a website using a passkey that you've saved in 1Password, you can also sign in using 1Password on your desktop. To sign in to a website using a passkey saved in 1Password, you'll unlock 1Password using the same method that you currently use to unlock 1Password on your desktop when filling a saved password. That might mean biometrics but it can also mean using your account password if you don't use biometrics on your desktop.
You can read more about signing in to a website on your desktop with a passkey here: Save and sign in with passkeys in your browser
Let me know if you have any questions. 🙂
-Dave