Anyone want to grouse about Passkeys?

From my perspective, passkeys solve one specific problem:  the naive individual who reuses the same simple password across several sites and clicks every phishing link.  For that person, passkeys are an improvement.  However, a robust password manager (such as 1Password) delivers the same benefits using passwords, without the additional complexity of passkeys.

Personally, I do not now use a single passkey.  Maybe someday that will change - but, today I fail to see any substantial security benefit arising from passkeys for a reasonably savvy web user.

I am replying to my own post because I haven’t been back to the Support Community in years and wonder if things have changed.  I posted yesterday re grousing about passkeys.  Today, I get an email from the 1Password Community Team that I have a response:  

Hi BikerBob38,

Pleonasm has responded in Anyone want to grouse about Passkeys?.

I click on [View Reply], which leads me back to my post...and there is nothing from Pleonasm, only my original post. What gives???

Hello ​@BikerBob38! 👋

I'm sorry that you've run into some hiccups when using passkeys. You're right that different websites can implement passkeys in different ways. That said, 1Password does its best to provide a consistent experience wherever possible. When a website requests a passkey, or you click a "Sign in with passkey" button, 1Password will prompt you to sign in using a saved passkey if you have one for that website:

In most cases, clicking the Sign In button will sign you in without any other action required on your end.

Also, if Passkeys are so wonderful why is it that, even though I have numerous bank and credit cards and financial site logins saved in 1Password, when I go to Watchtower and look for sites for which passkeys are available there is not one, single, solitary financial site listed!!  Would these not be the sites on which you would want the most protection.

1Password can’t control what authentication options that a specific website offers, but we aim to be your universal authenticator so that you can sign into that website using 1Password no matter what authentication method is being used whether it’s a password, passkey, third-party service, one-time password, or something else. 

If you'd like to see a website, such as your bank, support passkeys, you can vote for it on passkeys.directory. It's a community-driven site where people can request and vote for passkey support on specific websites. While submitting a request doesn't guarantee that a website will add passkey support, it does help demonstrate that there's demand for the feature: https://passkeys.directory/request-passkey-support/

-Dave