But passkey proponents are ramping up their efforts to make the occasion obsolete. Google's announcement comes on the eve of World Password Day on Thursday. But Google says it hopes to discover and iron out as many of these issues as possible, so smaller organizations can feel more confident implementing passkeys. That doesn't mean there won't be what Brand calls “rough edges” or use cases where there are passkey bugs. And once you've set up a passkey on a device, Google will automatically detect it and prompt you to log in that way going forward.īrand says that in early tests on a few thousand users, sign-in success rates with passkeys were immediately higher than for traditional username and password logins. But the company is betting that once people get used to passkeys, they'll like them better and find them easier to manage than passwords. Google says that even once you make a passkey for your account (or five), your traditional username and password login isn't going anywhere, and you can still use it if you choose. “So for us, it was important to cover as wide a range of devices as possible on launch day, no carve-outs.” That’s not how passwords work passwords are ubiquitous,' Brand says. “What doesn’t help is when a vendor or developer only rolls out passkey for iOS or only rolls it out for Android.

If you issue a passkey to log into your Google account on a shared device, be sure to revoke it once you're done. You can even store a passkey for your account on the device of someone you trust as a recovery option. All of your Google account passkeys will be listed on the “Passkey Management Page,” where you can review and revoke them.

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