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dewme said:

Maybe it’s just me, but over the past few years it seems like Apple announces several potentially interesting new features that will be introduced with the next version of the operating system, be it iOS, iPadOS, or macOS. During the presentation they quietly add a caveat that the feature is “coming soon’ or slap on an asterisk or some other designator to indicate that a feature won’t be included in the initial release or will be limited to certain products. In any case, by the end of the announcement you’re still pretty excited about all of the cool new stuff coming with the next release.

Fast forward several weeks and a slew of betas and finally the new OS finally hits your Software Update queue. You download the update, start using it and trying out all the new features in the release and you’re surprised that your actual experience doesn’t quite match how you felt when you first saw the flashy presentation back in June. There’s something missing. Yeah, you were warned, but now the reality of the delayed features hits home. There’s not as many jelly beans in the package as your brain envisioned you’d be getting with the new release.

Over the next weeks and months the promised features usually start appearing in point releases, along with bug fixes and security updates. By then, if you’re like me, these lagging feature rollouts kind of get lost in the sauce and you may have even forgotten about them to the point of not really knowing if you ever received everything that you thought the new OS would deliver. This is especially true if you quickly jump on every security update that Apple pushes out, which seems to occur every few weeks or even more often. On top of that, some of the highly touted and flashy new but delayed features that slither out with one of these frequent updates don’t always live up to the hype, for example, Stage Manager which is basically useless to the point of being annoying, especially if you manage your multi monitor manually or with third party tools. In the end you don’t know whether Apple underdelivered or you over-anticipated what the feature would give you, It’s probably a combination of both.

I would even go to the point of saying that the feature trickle-out model results in a situation where a substantial number of users wouldn’t even notice if a promised feature never showed up. What was promised in June fades into the fog cloud that comes with each new update that does not include the promised feature. If you’re not keeping track, not keeping score, or not being reminded by AppleInsider, it kind of disappears.

Marvin said:

appleinsideruser said:

Marvin said:

appleinsideruser said:

Not contradicting your post 22, but passkeys make me uneasy. Give me a password that is strong that I store in keychain and I’m in charge of my own destiny (and access to the resource). 

Loose a device or an invisible crypto passkey and you’re buggered. #luddite  🤷‍♂️ 

There will be account recovery methods, just like forgotten passwords. If someone loses a device and hasn't backed up passkeys to the cloud, they'd have to recover their accounts with the registered sites. This can be done with emails, SMS.

If they are backed up to the cloud, locally or synced to multiple devices, it's much less likely people will get locked out.

If someone has 100 different passwords for all the sites they use and writes them down or uses a password app, losing those backups would have the same effect and would be much worse to recover as you'd have to think up all new passwords x100. Passkeys can be renewed with a click.

This new system will make it much easier to setup secure logins, people don't have to think up a new minimum length password, capital letters, numbers, special character etc. Just add email address, signup, verify email, save passkey.

Does Hide My Email for with Passkeys, or do you reveal your email address to the site?

There wouldn't be a need to use the original email address, Passkeys is just a file key instead of a password, everything else works the same.