macOS Sonoma has unified its support for “passkeys” and “passwords”. Which means, among other things, that you can’t use webauthn in Safari unless you also enable its native password autofill. This is probably a big usability upgrade for normal users, but a huge annoyance for me, because I have been gradually onboarding onto iCloud passkeys for a little while, but use 1Password for passwords. Now, every webpage pops up the autofill UI for both 1password and safari, and the popups z-fight.
I mention this because this is probably a configuration at least a *few* followers are in, given my audience demographics, and if this describes you (i.e: on Ventura, using 1Password, iCloud passwords off and passkeys on) you may want to go through and fully offboard from iCloud passkeys into 1Password before upgrading to Sonoma which makes the UX for this process terrible; both the aforementioned z-fighting popups as well as the unskippable “REMEMBER PASSWORD IN iCloud?” modal on every login.
@0a734d30 I’ve had no issues with passkeys with just 1Password so far.
@0a734d30 zfighting is my instant favorite neologism
@0a734d30 fortunately I don’t use iCloud passwords for anything but wow that sounds annoying
How does the machine-local store (keychain) interact with that, any idea? Hopefully they didn’t go and force it into the iCloud shit too :|
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