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September 20, 2023
Question

Passkeys on android 14 missing?

  • September 20, 2023
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Hi

Yesterday i noticed on the release notes this line
"You can now save and use passkeys in 1Password on Android 14 or later. "
As a big user of passkeys, that made me really happy as I was waiting for any news on this. I upgraded my Pixel 7a to the newest Android 14 beta... and nothing. Chrome still presents me with my "system" passkeys, with no option to use 1password saved passkeys. Is this something that will only become available on the release version of Android 14?


1Password Version: 8.10.16
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: Android 14 UPB5.230623.009
Browser: Chrome

29 replies

October 4, 2023

is there a way to make this work in Firefox for Android? Currently it just looks for passkeys in the system manager, not 1Password.

1P_Timothy
Community Manager
October 5, 2023

Hi @gaza1994, apologies for the delay.

Support for password managers, such as 1Password, to create and use passkeys is coming to Android 14 and later. As you mentioned your device is running Android 13, it would be expected behavior that 1Password cannot be used to save or sign in with passkeys. The production roll out of Android 14 has recently started with newer Pixel devices so you should see that update soon!

It's important to note that while passkey support is turned on in 1Password for Android, we’re still waiting on Android apps to be updated to support this feature. We’re also expecting support for websites to come later this year when Chrome rolls out greater passkey support. While it's currently possible to use passkeys in Chrome on Android 14 devices by modifying feature flags, we would recommend waiting for the fully supported versions.

Hi @Lyndeno, thanks for your question.

To my knowledge Firefox Android is not currently supporting passkeys. When I try saving one, I see the option to use a security key, or the device based key, but not a passkey. Doing the same in Chrome presents me the option to save a passkey with Chrome.

When using Firefox are you seeing "passkey" specifically mentioned or are you given the option to select the device/ a security key?

October 16, 2023

I am facing the same issue despite being on Android 14 and enabling the correct chrome flag. 1password is setup as my password autofill of choice. Any passkey login uses the system passkey instead of 1password.

I suspect this might be device specific. I upgraded from a pixel 7 to a pixel 8 this week. When my pixel 7 got updated to Android 14, I used the same steps mentioned above, and passkeys worked great in Chrome. However, after switching to my pixel 8 (also on Android 14), the same steps no longer work. I have tried factory resetting the phone, restarting, checking for more recent system updates, reinstalling 1password, all to no avail. Any ideas what's going on?

tonkku107
October 17, 2023

I also just received my pixel 8 and cannot use passkeys on it while I could on my previous pixel 5

tonkku107
October 18, 2023

After going through multiple Google Play system updates, the 3rd party passkey functionality returned.

1Password Employee
October 30, 2023

Hi @tonkku107,

I'm glad to hear after additional Google Play updates you're able to use passkeys again!

Hi @cxgomez,

I'd like to ask you, after updating to the most recent updates, are you also able to now use passkeys as intended?

Franky

November 9, 2023

It seems to me that Android 14 delegates Passkey registration/ authentication to third party Password Managers only when request comes from the same mobile. When using via QR code from a Windows machine ( cross platform ) I could not get any of them to work. Is this the case?

November 10, 2023

Answering to my own question, I figured out that Android OS has not implemented Hybrid Transportation and it is the Chromium which has registered itself to take action for "fido:/" URL in QR Code. That is why always Chrome Password Manager comes up.

November 13, 2023

I also have a Pixel 8 Pro and I am having no luck getting passkeys to use 1password. I'm on the Nov update of Android 14 and I have the latest Google Play updates. I have set 1password as my default password manager (for "Passwords, passkeys and data services") and it does work properly for passwords. (And I turned OFF Google as and additional provider.) I have set the chrome flags (mentioned above) and nothing seems to work.

Could it be that something (either in 1password or in Android) is behaving differently for the Pixel 8?? Or am I missing something?

tonkku107
November 13, 2023

All of the different google play system update (settings -> security & privacy -> system & updates) components roll out at different times so you might see an up to date screen for a while even if you don't have the latest at the moment.
Also, since Chrome version 119, I found out that the flag has to be set to "Enabled for Google Password Manager and 3rd party passkeys" for passkeys to work at all.