You can use a passkey to sign in easily and securely with just a fingerprint, face scan, or screen lock. Passkeys are a simple and secure way to sign in to both your Google Account and all the sites and apps you care about — without a password. You may be asked to sign into a website with a passkey or create one to improve your account’s security.
Learn how to sign in with a passkey instead of a password.
Tip: Passkeys are built on industry standards, so you can use them across many platforms.
More about passkeys
The difference between passkeys and passwords is that passkeys are cryptographic key pairs. The key pair is specific to a website. One half is shared with the website, and the other half is private and stored on your device or in your password manager. This technology uses a securely generated code to authenticate your access to websites and apps instead of a password that may be stolen or leaked.
Benefits of passkeys include:
- You won’t have to remember a sequence of letters, numbers, and characters for each site.
- You can sign into accounts with fingerprint or facial recognition technology.
- You can use passkeys across different operating systems and browser ecosystems, and with both websites and apps.
- Passkeys are strong enough to never be guessed or reused, making them safe from hacker attempts.
- Passkeys are connected to the app or website they were created for, so you can never be tricked into using your passkey to sign in to a fraudulent app or website.
- Passkeys saved with Google Password Manager are available across your devices. You can use them on Chrome or Android when you're signed in with the same Google Account.
Use passkeys
You can store passkeys on your devices. The process is different for each operating system and may not be available on all systems.
Store passkeys in Google Password Manager
When passkeys are stored in your Google Account, they’re protected by your iPhone or iPad’s PIN, pattern, Face ID, password, and Google Password Manager PIN.
To save passkeys in Google Password Manager, make sure:
Your device is iOS or iPadOS 17 or up.
You set Chrome as an iOS autofill provider in your device settings. Learn how to use saved passwords and passkeys in Chrome and other apps.
You’re signed in to your Google Account and sync your passwords.
- The Google Password Manager syncs on other devices where Chrome is installed.
- “Passwords” is turned on in your Google Account. Learn how to start or stop saving passwords.
When you visit a site which supports passkeys, you'll be asked if you'd like to create a passkey in Google Password Manager.
If you previously created a passkey on an Android device, you'll need its PIN, pattern, or password to unlock your passkeys. If you previously created passkeys on a desktop device, you'll need your Google Password Manager PIN to unlock your passkeys.
Sign-in with passkeys in Chrome
Important: You can also use passkeys when you sign in to your other apps.
- Open a site or app’s log in page.
- To sign-in with passkeys, you can:
- Tap the username or password field.
- Tap Sign in with a passkey.
- In the “Sign in with your passkey?” dialogue, if Chrome isn't preselected, tap Chrome
Continue.
- To complete sign in, authenticate with FaceID.
Store passkeys on an iPhone or iPad
If your device has iOS or iPadOS 16 or up, you can use passkeys. Your Apple Passwords stores and syncs them between iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices.
Important:
- If you have iOS or iPadOS 16 or up, passkeys are supported by Apple Passwords or also called Password App for iOS 18.
- If you have iOS or iPadOS 17 or up, you can choose a password manager that supports passkeys. To do this, you need to set Chrome as the iOS autofill provider in your device settings.
To manage passkeys:
- On your iPhone or iPad, open your device settings.
- Select Passwords.
Store passkeys on a security key
You can use a security key to store your passkeys.
Important: Passkeys stored on security keys aren’t backed-up. If you lose or reset the security key, you can’t recover your passkeys.
Use passkeys on another device
You can use Chrome on your computer to use passkeys from your iPhone or iPad.
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- Go to the sign-in page of a site that you want to log into.
- When prompted to use your passkey, tap A different device.
- You may have to tap Try another way.
- Scan the QR code with your iPhone or iPad.
