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How to properly use passkeys on Windows 11
You will no longer need to sing in with your passwords, but passkeys.
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Updated onAugust 6, 2024
updated onAugust 6, 2024
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Good news for Windows enthusiasts this week. Microsoft has releasedWindows 11 Insider Preview Build 23486to the Dev Channel. And it’s packed with a lot of good features, important fixes, and improvements.
It’s almost as big as the last week’sPatch Tuesday updates, and some of these updates will make much easier for you to browse. Take for example this Windows 11 feature: passkeys. According to Microsoft, the future is passwordless, and passkeys are the first step to that.
Basically, passkeys will allow you to replace passwords when you sign into a website or application that supports them. This way, bad actors won’t be able to steal your credentials when signing into a web site or application.
Even more, Microsoft says that passkeys are phish-resistant, recoverable, and faster for users.
Here’s how you can use passkey on Windows 11
In order for you to use passkeys, you need to go to any app or website that supports passkeys. You’ll be signing in bycreating a passkey, and then you can use Windows Hello (face, fingerprint, PIN) to sign in.
Create and Sign in using passkeys can be done on Windows 11 devices, as well as your mobile devices.
For a Windows 11 device, you need to:
And for mobile device, you’ll need to:
You can also manage your passkeys that are saved into your Windows devices. You can view, search, and delete them as you see fit.
Besides the passkeys, there are a lot of changes and improvements coming with this build. Check them below.
[File Explorer]
[Dev Home]
[Dynamic Lighting]
[Emoji]
[Settings]
[Dynamic Lighting]
[Input]
[Network]
[Task Manager]
[Dev Drive]
[Search on the Taskbar]
[File Explorer]
Insiders who have the modernized File Explorer Home that began rolling out withBuild 23475:
Insiders who have the modernized File Explorer address bar that began rolling out withBuild 23475:
Insiders will have issues with the following commands on recommended files in File Explorer that began rolling out withBuild 23403:
[Notifications]
[Dynamic Lighting]
[Windows Ink]
What do you think about this Build? What about passkeys? Could they really be better than passwords? Let us know in the comments section below.
More about the topics:Windows 11,Windows Update
Flavius Floare
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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.
He’s always curious and ready to take on everything new in the tech world, covering Microsoft’s products on a daily basis. The passion for gaming and hardware feeds his journalistic approach, making him a great researcher and news writer that’s always ready to bring you the bleeding edge!
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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.
