Google launched Android 14 Developer Preview 1 earlier this month, along with a number of new improvements and features, including support for Passkeys. Passkey is an authentication mechanism that fully eliminates the necessity for inputting or memorizing passwords, to recap for you.
Android 14: Passkeys are more secure than passwords because they replace passwords with one-of-a-kind digital keys
Passkeys are more secure than passwords because they replace passwords with one-of-a-kind digital keys that are saved on the device and are end-to-end encrypted. Passwords are vulnerable to data leaks and hacking. Users could only sync passkeys with Google Password Manager or Apple’s iCloud Keychain until now; other password managers were not supported.
But according to a recent blog post by Dashlane, a well-known password manager program, this will alter with Android 14. Users will be able to generate new passwords using their fingerprints rather than text input because the future Android version natively supports Passkey. Prior to this, 1Password also declared that Android 14 would support passkeys. On Apple devices running iOS 16 and Google Chrome for Android, Windows, and macOS, the capability is already accessible.
According to Google’s blog post, an Android user can now log in to a website that supports passkey using Safari on a Mac. In a similar vein, Chrome’s passkey compatibility means that, for instance, a Chrome user on Windows can accomplish the same thing using a passkey saved on an iOS device.