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Former Member
2 years ago

How do I use Passkeys in Google Chrome on Android?

I was very excited, reading that Passkeys are finally fully supported in browsers and on my Windows it works great. But now I'm trying to use Passkeys in Google Chrome with Android. Unfortunately...
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Racer77
New Contributor
2 years ago

Hey,

I was able to get this working! There's another Chrome flag that needs to be enabled. In order:

  1. Open chrome://flags/#web-authentication-android-credential-management and set it to "Enabled". The option "Enabled for Google Password Manager and 3rd party passkeys" also seems to work, but don't use "Enabled for 3rd party passkeys", it can only create passkeys with Google (probably a bug).
  2. Open chrome://flags/#enable-autofill-virtual-view-structure and set to "Enabled" (discovered in https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/chrome-password-manager-integration-flag-spotted).
  3. Restart Chrome and go to Settings. There should be a new item Autofill Options. Open it, and change the setting to "Use other providers".

  1. Try creating a passkey or logging in with one, tapping "More options" should let you switch to the OS password manager.

The implementation is very buggy: after getting this to work once, the Autofill Options no longer had any impact, and I was able to unset that flag without issue. But it works on passkeys.io and GitHub.

Device: Pixel 6
OS: Android 14 (UQ1A.240105.002)
Browser: Chrome Beta 122.0.6261.43
1Password: 8.10.26-38.BETA