Passkeys are used to support password-free sign-in for the internet giant’s accounts

Signing in before signing in: How to change how you sign in to get access to Google’s Internet, Facebook, and other login credentials

Today’s announcement is similar to smaller passkey implementations by the company. Despite gaining passkey support for its browser in December last year it is still relatively rare. It’s still difficult to go password free just yet. If you look at 1password’s page you will see a list of sites and services that support passKeys, and hopefully this technology will be more widely used now that companies like Google have started to accept passwordless lifestyles.

You can still use someone else’s device to temporarily gain access to your Google account. If you want to use a passkey from another device, you have to sign in once, but you can’t transfer it to the new hardware. As Google notes, you should never create passkeys on a shared device because anyone that can access and unlock that device would be able to access your Google account.

In the year since the industry association known as the FIDO Alliance began publicly promoting the rollout of passkeys, the makers of the world’s biggest consumer operating systems—Microsoft, Google, and Apple—have launched the necessary infrastructure to support passkeys. But if you still have never used a passkey in your daily life, you’re far from alone.

“We have an opportunity here to change the way users think about signing in,” says Christiaan Brand, an identity and security product manager at Google and co-chair of the FIDO2 technical working group. If we can change how signing in works for your account, we hope this will get consumers more accustomed to the technology and indicate that it is ready for prime-time adoption.