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A smartphone fingerprint sensor, the kind of biometric unlock used to approve a passkey sign-in.

What Is a Passkey, and How Does It Actually Work?

Google, Apple and your bank keep asking you to make one. A passkey is a login that never sends its secret across the wire, which is why it beats the password at the thing passwords fail at most: phishing.

Tech  · 6 Jul 2026, 08:02  · Daniel Okafor