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Beta support for Passkey is already in the current macOS/iOS releases: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv... I am already using Passkeys on some websites.
What standard is this using? The doc doesn't specify.
The competition, password managers like 1password and bitwarden, do not have any sort of vendor lockin. You can freely export your passwords from one manager and into another.
What happens if you lose your device or it breaks or something? Do you lose access to anything tied to it?
They must have considered this because that's would be a huge hassle.
Importantly, if you switch platforms you lose all your auth tokens and have to reauth everywhere. It ultimately is yet another way to do vendor lockin, except it has the FIDO alliance's blessing this time. The competition, password managers like 1password and bitwarden, do not have any sort of vendor lockin. You can freely export your passwords from one manager and into another.
What happens if you lose your device or it breaks or something? Do you lose access to anything tied to it?
Importantly, if you switch platforms you lose all your auth tokens and have to reauth everywhere. It ultimately is yet another way to do vendor lockin, except it has the FIDO alliance's blessing this time. The competition, password managers like 1password and bitwarden, do not have any sort of vendor lockin. You can freely export your passwords from one manager and into another.
We really should be working to allow better, standardized integration with password managers (communicating password length and alphabet requirements, well-known URIs to do zero-touch credential rotation, etc.) rather than trying to do "Log in with BIGCORP" in another way.