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by aseipp 1082 days ago
In the next version of iOS you'll be able to use a third party app to handle the Passkey flow, like how a 3rd party app can handle the password flow today. So you'll be able to remove your passkey from iCloud and use the one inside 1Password instead.

Also, I think the browser thing with Chrome is a matter of extension support; in Edge with 1Password Beta Extension, 1Password definitely takes over Passkey flows instead of using the (absolutely insanely confusing) Windows Hello UX. Just like it takes over password saving (there's an option in settings that shows password sync settings are controlled by the 1Pass extension.) So you may just need to use the Beta extension in your Chrome for now, and I think 1Password will take over from there.

Basically we're moving towards a setup where you trust your password manager to hold onto your passkeys and then the OS will allow that integration. I don't know what the status of these features are on Android.

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Ah that’s good to hear! I use the 1Password beta on Chromium browsers, but obviously that’s a bit awkward when some stuff is saved in Safari, some in 1Password and some elsewhere

It’s a bit of a mess right now and even me as an IT person, I sometimes think I have a PassKey saved for something just for it to not work, either because I used the wrong device or because I didn’t actually save one and forgot.

Or once I had accepted the prompt to store the PassKey in Arc (or some other Chromium browser) which then didn’t work in another browser when I tried to login