Apple has shown it to everyone again. In early May 2022, Apple, Google and Microsoft jointly declared that passwordless login with security keys was coming “sometime in 2023”. Now the iPhone company has packed its version of the login – Apple calls it “Passkeys” – directly into its new mobile operating system iOS 16. It has been available to users since Monday. This is how Apple wants to make passwords superfluous.


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ZDNet: Two years in, Google says passkeys now protect more than 400 million accounts

Google Account users have authenticated themselves using passkeys more than 1 billion times, but passwords…

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Google Blog: Passkeys, cross-account protection and new ways we’re protecting your accounts

For World Password Day, we’re sharing updates to passkeys across our products and sharing more…

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CNET: World Password Day: We’re closer to ditching this crackable tech

Passkeys promise to be a big help, but until they take hold, we all need…

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