Sync your passkeys across all your phones and tablets
What you need: Chrome browser on a phone/tablet
Time required: 30 minutes
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rooks are getting better at cracking passwords, and we now need so many of them that making sure each one is unique means it’s impossible to remember them all. That’s why many sites are adopting passkeys. These delegate the task of verifying your identity to a smartphone or tablet, which can check that you really are who you claim to be by sending you PINs or scanning your face/finger. When the device has identified you, it uses the passkey issued by the site to unlock your account. To save you setting up a new passkey for every device, programs like Google Password Manager in Chrome can synchronise them across every device on which it’s installed. It’s just been rolled out to iPhones and iPads running iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 or later, allowing them to sync with Windows, macOS, Android, and ChromeOS. Here’s how it works.