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snoringelephant
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19 hours ago

Passkey CR - Allow 1P To Scan QR Code

 

There are many times when I am browsing in some browser (like Safari, Edge, etc.) and the site recognizes that one or more passkeys have been created for the site and it pops up a prompt asking for to use a device (such as a phone, tablet, etc.) where some biometric authentication can be used to access the device's passkey.

However, since I am saving my passkeys in 1Password, I am handcuffed at this prompt since there doesn't appear to be any way for me to use the passkey that is stored in 1Password for the site and  scan the QR code.

It seems like 1Password should be able to scan the QR code that the popup window presents and use the saved passkey for the site.  I don't know exactly how this would be invoked.  My guess it would be some option to use the passkey from some saved login entry.

May you please pass this along to see what the developers think of this idea?

If anyone else is interested in having this feature, please feel free to like/comment/watch.

Thanks.

 

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  • Hello snoringelephant​! 👋

    Thanks for reaching out! The QR code is only meant for other devices to scan it, it's not designed for a password manager (like 1Password) to scan it on the same device. 

    When signing into a website in the browser on your Mac, the website will send a webauthn request and 1Password will respond to that webauthn request by showing a prompt that you can click to sign in with your passkey: 


    In your case, it looks like 1Password isn't receiving the webauthn request since you're seeing a prompt from macOS itself. Can you tell me the following: 

    1. Do you have 1Password installed in all of your browsers: Download 1Password for your browser
    2. Is the built-in password manager turned off in all browsers using these steps: Turn off the built-in password manager in your browser


    If those two steps look good then can you share the specific Microsoft website that you're trying to sign into so that I can try to reproduce the issue on my end? And are you signing into a personal Microsoft account? Or a work/school account? 

    -Dave