Amazon Passkey Support Rolling Out on Web Browser, Mobile Apps: Here’s How to Set Up the Feature

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Passkey Support Rolling Out on Web Browser, Mobile Apps: Here’s How to Set Up the Feature

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announced that it is rolling out passkey support on Web browsers and its mobile apps to help customers securely sign in to their

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accounts. The e-commerce giant follows several other tech firms in bringing passkeys to its apps in recent times. WhatsApp,

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, and

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Windows have all added passkey support for their products this year. With

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now rolling out the feature, customers won’t have to use their unique passwords to access their accounts.

The e-commerce site

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Monday that passkey support was now available for all

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customers using browsers to access the site. The security feature will begin rolling out soon for the

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app on iOS and will be added later to the shopping app on Android.

According to

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, customers can set up passkeys in

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settings and use the face or fingerprint recognition on their device, or the device PIN to access their

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accounts securely. “This is about giving customers ease-of-use and security simultaneously in their

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experience,” Dave Treadwell, senior vice president of e-commerce at

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, was quoted as saying in the announcement.

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confirmed that account passwords were not going away, and passkeys will only serve as an alternative way for account authentication.

How to set up passkeys on

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has listed out a step-by-step process for enrolling for passkeys. Users can head to the

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website on a Web browser or open the iOS

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app with the passkey update, select Your Account, chose Login &Security, and select the Set up option next to Passkeys. Users can follow the instructions and add a passkey to their account, after which they can sign in on the supported device using biometric authentication like face or fingerprint, or the device lockscreen PIN.

Passkeys have recently become a popular, safe and quick alternative to password-based account authentication. Unlike a password, users don’t have to remember or write down a passkey and thus cannot be accidentally shared or guessed. Last week, popular messaging app WhatsApp rolled out support for passkeys on Android devices.

In June,

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said it would add support for passkeys on Windows 11, letting users seamlessly sign in to a site or application using their face, fingerprint, or a PIN.

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, too, began rolling out passkey support earlier this year.

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