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Amazon is one of the first major retailers to offerpasskey sign-in.
Sadly, Amazon’s passkey implementation is a little clunky, and Amazon’s apps still lack passkey support.
The company is also extending passkey functionality to the iOS Amazon Shopping app.
Android support will come at a later date.
Passkeys offer a more secure and convenient login experience than traditional passwords.
Under your phone number, you’ll find the option to add a passkey to your account.
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It’s great to see passkeys on the Amazon website.
In theory, this should accelerate passkey adoption and get us on track for a passwordless future.
But Amazon’s passkey implementation isn’t great.
Plus, asCorbadonotes, passkeys are domain-specific.
A passkey made for amazon.com won’t work on the German-language amazon.de domain, and so on.
As for Amazon’s funky passkey implementationwell, things will improve with time.
Amazon hasn’t even announced passkey support in a press release, blog post, or earnings call.
This feature is fresh, new, and still in the works.
