Chrome is working to enhance security with biometric authentication for password autofill. Chrome currently overrides system-level settings to prioritize biometric ID verification. New Chrome flag in Canary ensures biometric ID is needed before password fill-ins.

Google just made passwords redundant with this stunning Chrome passkeys announcement. Here’s what you need to know.

To make passkeys easier to use, Google is starting to sync them across Android and desktop devices, including Windows PCs. The change is coming to Google Password Manager, which previously could only store the passkeys on Android phones — not share them directly through any PCs you also happen to own.

Google is improving the built-in password manager in Google Chrome to make it easier to use passkeys on the desktop.

Google is rolling out a really useful update for Google Password Manager, allowing users to sync passkeys across their many devices. Up until this point, folks could only save passkeys to Google Password Manager on Android,

Passkeys are far superior to passwords because each passkey consists of two cryptographic keys: a public key registered with the online service or app, and a private key stored on

Passkeys can be saved on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, and Android devices, with iOS coming, and a PIN replaces QR scans.

Google is rolling out an update to passkeys that lets users save and sync those important credentials across devices. This will remove the need to scan a QR code when attempting to sign in outside of Android;