At the end of last year I published a long message that the user criticized unfriendliness of Passkeys, the industrial alternative to logging in with passwords. A main complaint was that passkey implementations tend to lock users in the platform they used to make the reference.
An example: when using Chrome on an iPhone, passkeys were stored on iCloud. When using Chrome on other platforms, Passkeys were stored in the Google profile of a user. That meant that for Chrome, for example, Windows would not be synchronized with iCloud on Windows. Passkeys made in iCloud would not synchronize with a Google account.
GPM and iOS finally play together fun together
That headache is finally over. Chrome on all platforms now uses the Google password manager, a tool built into Chrome, with seamless synchronization keys. GPM, as it has abbreviated, will synchronize Passkeys with all Chrome browsers who are registered with the same user account. I spent a few days testing the new possibilities, and they usually work. The tool is accessible by opening this link in Chrome.
With GPM I can log in to passkey secure accounts, not only in Chrome, but also in independent iOS apps such as those of Kajak, eBay or LinkedIn. When making a passkey in an independent app, I now get the option to synchronize it via GPM or iCloud. That means that the same passkeys that I made on Chrome for Android, Windows or MacOS work from the box on my iOS apps. These passkeys are synchronized using end-to-end coding, as imposed by the FIDO specification, which is maintained by the Fido alliance.
