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Disable Passkey support for AutoFill
I prefer to keep Passkeys in my iCloud Keychain because it's essentially syncing just on my iPhone & iPad, while 1Password has an archive file format, so those keys would essentially be files in the ...
1P_Dave
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Thanks for the reply. I'm not an expert on how iCloud Keychain works but from my understanding the Keychain itself is not stored in the Secure Element:
The keychain is implemented as a SQLite database, stored on the file system.
Source: Keychain data protection - Apple Support (CA)
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-Dave
