Google announced that its Passkeys authentication tech has been used over one billion times in less than a year. Passkeys eliminate the need to use complex passwords and are about 50% faster.
Google announced new achievements and shared some updates for Passkeys on World Password Day. The search giant revealed passkeys have been used more than one billion times across 400 million accounts in less than a year.
The new authentication technology was first introduced for Android and Chrome in 2022. At the time, Google allowed developers to access passkeys via Google Play Services beta and Chrome Canary. A year later, the company launched passkeys for Google Accounts to let users sign in without typing passwords.
Noting an increase in usage of passkeys, Google said:
Passkeys are easy to use and phishing resistant, only relying on a fingerprint, face scan or a pin making them 50% faster than passwords.
