Apple wants to replace passwords with your iPhone or Mac

It's about time but there will still be issues for installations where people aren't allowed to carry mobile devices except for approved passkeys devices. These devices usually don't do anything other than provide a PIN making them less of a security issue. That said, I no longer work in this kind of an environment so having a potentially better method of securely authenticating my account would be appreciated. Now if only more websites would include the Login using AppleID I'd think it might actually go somewhere.

rob53 said:

It's about time but there will still be issues for installations where people aren't allowed to carry mobile devices except for approved passkeys devices. These devices usually don't do anything other than provide a PIN making them less of a security issue. That said, I no longer work in this kind of an environment so having a potentially better method of securely authenticating my account would be appreciated. Now if only more websites would include the Login using AppleID I'd think it might actually go somewhere.

Yes, but this new initiative won't preclude those other approved devices from being still accepted, will they?

If Apple, or other unapproved mobile devices aren't acceptable now, and still won't be acceptable in the future, nothing has changed.

Those situations are in the minority anyway.  To not move forward based on those situations would deny the greater overall benefit to vast majority who aren't so encumbered, and kind of like the tail wagging the dog.

I also doubt that Apple would make this method exclusive, and abandon current solutions.  Note that existing iCloud accounts don't requite 2FA to be enabled, though admittedly, that could change at some point.

...so Apple now wants to store the world's passcodes on Patriot Act governed servers...?
Biometric data, when we sleep, where we move (now even when our iOS is off), what we say, read, watch and listen to - is anything left...?
Even with (if) the best of intentions does this concentration of data (digital colonialism?) put the world at increasing dependency & risk ?
Is it an ironic evolution for the internet which I understand was originally conceived to fragment communication access for security reasons,
yet potentially now becoming a source of infinite attack vectors to concentrations of digital data 'wealth'...?

This is a fine idea but:

1. I want to transfer this data out of iCloud, which should allowed by Apple. I don’t want a lock in to their ecosystem just because I can’t access my keys outside iDevices.

2. What happens when I need to login to accounts via routers, TV’s and other appliances? OAuth delegation? Apple’s solution shouldn’t hinder me.

CheeseFreeze said:

This is a fine idea but:

1. I want to transfer this data out of iCloud, which should allowed by Apple. I don’t want a lock in to their ecosystem just because I can’t access my keys outside iDevices.

2. What happens when I need to login to accounts via routers, TV’s and other appliances? OAuth delegation? Apple’s solution shouldn’t hinder me.

Super easy, when a tool doesn't work for you use case you don't use it.