Apple recently showed off a new replacement for passwords coming in Safari and iOS. Apple revealed its version of passkeys at WWDC 2022 as a new authentication feature but Google and Microsoft helped develop the technology through the FIDO Alliance, a standards group that’s worked for years to get companies to move beyond passwords, which announced passkeys in May.


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