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by xavdid 1476 days ago
I haven't dug into the docs yet, but I don't quite follow this. How does it know that the ex-iPhone owner and current Android owner are the same person (and should have access to the same account)?
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If you did switch ecosystems, you'd probably need to do the whole re-enroll dance on every website that had your previous key. I don't see any sort of passkey backup/import functionality coming anytime soon simply because people don't change ecosystems that often, and those that do can simply keep both their iCloud and Android-based passkeys on services.
I would wager the majority of iPhone users use Windows on their main machines.
Passkey works on non-Apple devices by showing a QR code on that device, having the iPhone scan it, then a BLE connection being established to allow the phone to remotely sign webauthn requests. I only mention ‘switching ecosystems’ in the sense of moving between Apple and Android mobile devices.