Google’s password manager may soon allow you to transfer your passkeys to a new phone, making their use as a login tool even easier.

An APK teardown by AndroidAuthority has found that Google might be working on a potential update that would allow you to export passkeys from one device to another.

Password export and import is already a key feature of many of the best password managers, but the same functionality for passkeys would be a huge step forward.


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