Passkeys: How they work, how to use them

Once upon a time, signing into sites and apps was simple.

You remember those days, right? (They really weren’t that long ago, though by tech standards, it’s been roughly seven centuries.) All you’d do is remember a single username and password — or maybe put it on a Post-it and stick it to the bottom of your 11″ oatmeal-gray 7,000-lb. monitor monster, if you were really feeling fancy — and that’s it: You’d be ready to rush into whatever site or service you wanted, whenever the need arose.

Now, it’s a whole other story. If you’re following best practices, you’ve got unique, complex alphanumerical passwords for every single site and service you visit — managed by