Wall Street Journal. By Dalvin Brown Follow June 12, 2022 800 am ET

Here’s How It Would Work.

Goodbye, complex, hard-to-remember passwords. Hello, logging in with your face and fingerprints.

Your passwords keep your money, your job and your identity safe. But you hate them, and they’re flawed. Apple Inc. is trying to get rid of them entirely.

When Apple’s latest software updates for iPhones, iPads and Macs arrive this fall, they will include a way for users to log into various online accounts without entering passwords or relying on password managers to save and fill in credentials. The technology generates unique passkeys for each app or browser-based service in the place of characters. Those passkeys, a new type of identity authentication, prompt a scan of your face or fingerprints to log you in.