Setting up and using a passkey
Sign in with your fingerprint, face, or device PIN instead of a password — add, rename, delete. And what happens when the device is gone.
Under Settings → "Security" (section "Personal"), below two-factor authentication, sits the "Passkeys" card: "Sign in with your fingerprint, face, or device PIN — no password needed."
How to set up a passkey
- Open Settings → "Security" and go to the "Passkeys" card. As long as none is registered, it reads "No passkeys yet. Add one to sign in without a password."
- Click "Add passkey". Your device now prompts you — depending on the device, Face ID, fingerprint, Windows Hello or the device PIN.
- Confirm the prompt. Gantway reports "Passkey added."
The new entry then appears in the list, named after browser and operating system (for example "Chrome · Windows"). "Rename" gives it a name of your own (the field suggests "e.g. MacBook, iPhone"), "Delete" removes it again. Each row shows "Created" and "last used" or "never used" — that is how you spot a passkey you no longer need.
After it is created, a security email goes to your account address. If it arrived unexpectedly, it was not your device: change your password and delete the passkey here.
If your browser does not support passkeys, the button is replaced by "Your browser or device doesn't support passkeys."
How to sign in with it
- Open the sign-in page.
- Below the password form, separated by "or", click "Sign in with a passkey".
- Confirm your device's prompt. Done.
The second factor is skipped. That is not a concession but the arithmetic: a passkey requires the device and your fingerprint, your face or the device PIN — it already combines two factors. If you sign in with a password instead, two-factor authentication remains mandatory.
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