After announcing the feature in October, Google is now finally rolling out passkey support for the latest stable version of Chrome (version 108). Passkey support is arriving for Android, macOS, and Windows 11. This means Samsung Galaxy smartphone and Galaxy Book users can sign into websites the same way they unlock their devices.
Passkeys will be synced with Google Password Manager and other credential managers on Android. Once you have saved a website's credentials, it will appear in the autofill sheets on the sign-in page. Passkeys are built on industry standards and can be used across different platforms and ecosystems. Moreover, you can use passkey on websites as well as apps.
In order to use a passkey on your desktop device, you can “choose to use a passkey from your nearby mobile device.” Meaning, you can use either an Android or iOS device. To explain the enhanced level of security of the passkey, Google notes that, “only a securely generated code is exchanged with the site so, unlike a password, there’s nothing that could be leaked.”
You will be able to manage your passkeys on the Google Chrome browser on Windows and macOS. For passkeys to work, developers need to build passkey support onto their websites using the WebAuthn API. In the official blog, Google said that the team is also working on developing passkey support for iOS and Chromebooks and that it will take time for the tech to be widely adopted.
