{"id":1233186,"date":"2022-10-24T17:56:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/paypal-rolls-out-support-for-passkeys-on-apple-devices\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:56:22","slug":"paypal-rolls-out-support-for-passkeys-on-apple-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/paypal-rolls-out-support-for-passkeys-on-apple-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal rolls out support for passkeys on Apple devices \u2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">PayPal is making it easier to log in to its services \u2014 if you\u2019re an Apple device user, that is. The payments giant today announced that it\u2019s adding passkeys as a log-in method for PayPal accounts, allowing iPhone, iPad and Mac users on PayPal.com to sign in without using a password.<\/p>\n<p>Passkeys are a relatively new industry standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium \u2014 in partnership with Apple, Google and Microsoft \u2014 that are designed to replace passwords with bits of data called cryptographic key pairs. (To make matters somewhat confusing, Apple announced its own version of the passkey standard called Passkey in June.) The pairs consist of a public key stored in the cloud and a private key stored locally on users\u2019 devices, separated to ensure that a compromised server won\u2019t give an attacker access to account credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Passkeys have the added benefit of supporting a range of authentication techniques including fingerprint scanning, face recognition, PIN codes and even swipe patterns. One downside is that, because passkeys reside on local devices, it can be harder to log into an app or service with them if you\u2019re using someone else\u2019s phone or laptop. But in this way, passkeys are undeniably more secure than your typical password.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2430414\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2430414\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2430414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/unnamed-3.jpg\" alt=\"PayPal passkey\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2430414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong> PayPal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With PayPal, Apple device users running iOS 16, iPadOS 16.1 or macOS Ventura can create a passkey by logging into the PayPal website on desktop or mobile, typing their username and password and selecting the \u201cCreate a passkey\u201d option. They\u2019ll be prompted to authenticate with Apple Face ID or Touch ID to create the passkey, which will then be synced with Apple\u2019s iCloud Keychain service.<\/p>\n<p>Users with devices that don\u2019t support passkeys can still tap an iPhone to log in with a PayPal passkey, but they\u2019ll have to scan a QR code that appears after they enter their username.<\/p>\n<p>PayPal passkeys begin rolling out today for users in the U.S. Passkeys will become available in additional countries starting early in 2023, PayPal says, and on platforms beyond iOS, iPadOS and macOS \u201cas they add support for passkeys.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal is making it easier to log in to its services \u2014 if you\u2019re an Apple device user, that is. The payments giant today announced that it\u2019s adding passkeys as a log-in method for PayPal accounts, allowing iPhone, iPad and Mac users on PayPal.com to sign in without using a password. Passkeys are a relatively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}