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WhatsApp is rolling out passkey support to its app – here's how to set it up (www.techradar.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wish I knew what they were talking about. I've never had to login into Whatsapp, it was always done by confirming my phone number.

Now I have to login? What's my username? What happens if I lose my phone and the passkey was set up with a fingerprint or face recognition on the old one? Do I have to login into Google instead? But why login into Google to be able to login into Whatsapp?

So many questions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Set it up? Could you also give some clue how to turn it off?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Go to passkeys and hit revoke. They tell you in the article