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Passkeys promise a more secure, easier authentication method than passwords. Instead of creating and remembering a password for each account, a passkey is automatically generated for you by the respective website or app. To authenticate your login, you can use a PIN, fingerprint recognition, facial ID, or a physical security key.
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Sounds great, right? The main hiccup is that passkeys can be difficult to use across the board, in part because they don't always sync easily between different devices, such as a PC and a mobile phone. One way around that bump in the road is to use a password manager.
Turning to a password manager that supports passkeys is an ideal way to sync them automatically across all your devices, including your PC, phone, and tablet. Whatever passkeys get generated are available on any device on which the password manager is installed.
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I use 1Password as my password manager, which offers a quick and convenient way to store a passkey. When you start to set up a passkey at a supported website, 1Password automatically pops up and offers to save it to your regular library of logins.
If you already have a password stored for that particular site, you can replace the password entry with the passkey one or create a brand-new entry. Either way, the next time you return to that site, 1Password will apply the passkey and prompt you to authenticate yourself via PIN, Face ID, fingerprint, or security key. You're then logged in to the site.
How I set up passkeys through 1Password
For this article, I'm going to use 1Password as the example. The process should be similar with any other password manager that supports passkeys. To get started, I'll assume that you've already set up your password manager and have been using it to create and store passwords for different accounts on your PC and on your iOS or Android device.
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