Anyone who has a Apple ID they will receive one access keyfollowing the achievement of the upcoming update of iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma. This means that you will be able to sign in to your Apple ID with Face ID or Touch ID in place of your password on various Apple sign in pages.
Passkey for Apple ID with new updates
Following the upcoming updates of iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma, everyone with an Apple ID will automatically have a passkey. This Passkey will make it easy to access your Apple ID through Face ID or Touch ID instead of entering your phone password. The passkey will be used to log in to Apple pages, such as icloud.com and appleid.apple.com.
The Apple ID passkey makes everything easier and faster
The access key is acryptographic entity not visible to the user and is used instead of the password. Furthermore, it is much more secure than the password itself, being private and present only and exclusively on the user’s Apple devices. Unlike the password, which remains recorded and therefore made known to the website or app you are accessing.
Where you can use the access key
The use of the access key, once the necessary updates have been launched for Apple devices, is applicable on all those sites that allow access with an Apple account.
Apple: Rapid Security Response update
The Cupertino giant has released the first public update of Rapid Security Response. The update is available for all iOS and iPadOS devices updated to version 16.4.1 and for Macs running macOS version 13.3.1. Updated devices will notice a “(a)” in the updated version number.
As mentioned, this is the first public update of the security feature, but not the first ever. Apple had already released updates for Rapid Security Response for its beta testers.