say goodbye to remember them forever

Passwords are one of the biggest nuisances of our digital life. We forget them, we repeat them, they steal them and we have to think of new ones. Apple wants to put an end to all this by ending passwords forever. And for that, he wants us to use the iPhone to authenticate us everywhere. This is your plan.

The key to a future without passwords is in FIDO

In a joint effort to make the web more secure and usable for everyone, Apple, Google and Microsoft have announced plans to expand support for a standard for passwordless access made by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium. The new functionality will allow websites and apps to offer robust, secure and easy access without a password for all consumers across all devices and platforms.

This is how Apple defined its intentions in a press release published yesterday on its website. In conjunction with the other two tech giants, this initiative has many signs of prospering. All of them point out the current problems of passwords and how improvements such as two-factor authentication do not represent a great revolution.

For Apple users, the idea is that can authenticate to the web and apps via unlock code, Touch ID and Face ID. In this way, the user is protected against phishing attacks, since there are no passwords or emails to filter. The FIDO Alliance has worked with hundreds of technology companies and service providers around the world. And along with them, he has put two fundamental changes on the table:

1. Allow users to access their FIDO credentials on many devices, including new ones, without moving each individual account.
2. Allow FIDO authentication from your iPhone to access a web or app on another nearby device (regardless of operating system or browser).

This latest improvement reminds us of how we can configure AirPods or share the Wi-Fi password from the iPhone. Both are very convenient ways to configure devices without passwords.

Apple hopes to “eliminate password vulnerabilities” increasing security and transparency in the user experience. Plans to deploy these capabilities will be over the next year. We hope that iOS 16 brings news about it, the same is the star update that Apple releases in spring 2023.