Automatic Passkey Upgrades

Accelerate passkey adoption with automatic registration

Coming later this year to browsers and operating systems is an awesome new feature for rolling out passkeys faster and adopting a passwordless future: automatic passkey upgrades.

In browsers and native apps that support this functionality, you'll be able to register passkeys for your existing users without having to prompt them. This will let you adopt passkeys faster without disrupting your sign-in flow or making any other user-visible changes.

Seamless passkey adoption

Like passkey autofill using the mediation: "conditional" APIs, the new conditional registration API disappears into the background to create a seamless upgrade path. You can create passkeys for your existing users the next time they sign in without them having to see or do anything. They won't be slowed down by a prompt to create a passkey anymore - instead, their browser or OS will take care of it for them!

Stop phishing by going passkey-only

Passkeys are far more secure than passwords or other traditional auth factors, and are effectively immune to phishing.

For users that have adopted passkeys, you can choose to go passkey-only for their accounts. This will maximize their account security, without disrupting authentication for other users.

With the new automatic passkey creation API, you can dramatically accelerate this process and increase your site's security without adding friction.

SnapAuth supports automatic passkey creation

This new functionality will be available this fall in iOS 18 and Safari 18, with support for other browsers and platforms coming soon.

With SnapAuth, you'll be able to adopt this functionality in minutes with just a couple lines of code. We'll handle the feature detection and browser quirks so you can focus on your product.

We're updating our client SDKs to take advantage of these latest APIs in a way that remains easy and reliable to use. This is currently in internal testing, with a public beta planned for mid-August and GA later this year.

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