Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.
  • redjard@reddthat.comEnglish
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    22 days ago

    It’s android version dependent. Only 14 and up support 3rd party providers.

    Passkeys are supported on devices that run Android 9 (API level 28) or higher.

    On many devices, Credential Manager stores passkeys to Google Password Manager by default. Users can choose other password managers as its passkey providers in the System Settings on Android 14 or higher.

    Given the slowness of android version rollouts, this will be an issue for a long time.

    I also think supporting older androids is pushing apps to do it the “wrong” way and making it google specific.

    • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      22 days ago

      14 and up seems to be about 80% of users, and I suspect there’s a correlation between people who want to use passkeys with a third party password manager and being within two major versions of current.