What If My Passkey Doesn’t Work or I Lose the Device It’s On?

☀️ Passkeys are supposed to make signing in easier and safer, but what happens when it stops working or your device is gone? I'll show you what to do if your passkey fails or is lost and a technique that makes passkeys work everywhere. ☀️ Bootstrapping passkeys When a passkey stops working or you lose your device, you just sign in another way, like a password or a code sent to your email. Then set up a new passkey. A password manager can store passkeys so they work across all your devices automatically. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/190493 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ What Is a Passkey? ▶    • Say Goodbye to Passwords: Passkeys Explain...   Chapters 0:00 What If My Passkey Doesn’t Work or I Lose the Device It’s On? 0:45 In the beginning… 4:00 Set up a passkey 7:20 Repeat on other devices 8:05 When the passkey fails 10:59 If those other ways still work, what’s the point? 12:05 Password managers and passkeys ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-... for even more! #askleo #passkey #security