Password Managers
Apple, along with many other companies, have been trying to kill passwords for years now through alternate authentication methods including fingerprints, facial recognition, and other biometrics. With macOS Ventura and iOS 16, Apple also wants to rid the world of password managers: useful apps that make it easy to use highly-secure but impossible to memorize passwords.
Apple describes its new Passkeys as “unique digital keys that stay on device and are never stored on a web server, so hackers can’t leak them or trick users into sharing” and are as easy to create as pressing a finger to a MacBook’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor. They sync across multiple Apple devices without the user ever having to think up and document a unique password for a site or service, and even work with non-Apple devices for iPhone users. LastPass and 1Password’s days might be numbered.
