From PC Mag: Passkey authentication’s highest-profile holdout is now giving its customers a more secure alternative to brittle, password-based sign-ons. On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it's rolling out passkey logins for users of its Android and iOS apps.
“Passkeys will soon be available on iOS and Android mobile devices for Facebook, and we will begin rolling out passkeys to Messenger in the coming months,” it says. “The same passkey you set up for Facebook will also work on Messenger once this capability launches.”
Meta’s flagship social platform is late to the party. Google opened passkey support to Gmail users more than two years ago, while other tech companies of Meta’s size have since not only added passkey support but, in Apple and Microsoft’s cases, made it standard for new accounts.
Meta’s passkey rollout is nowhere near that ambitious. A tech-support note advises that only some Android and iOS users will see it in the “Privacy and security” subsection of their Accounts Center. On Wednesday afternoon, one of four PCMag staffers with either app installed could not add a passkey. Facebook’s iPad and web users aren’t eligible for this offer at all.
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