How do passkeys work if you don’t have your phone on your person?

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I work in a jail, I have internet access, but am not allowed to have my phone on me. Websites want me to switch to passkeys. So does Apple. How would I sign into a website or account that has a passkey if I will never have my phone with me to authenticate? I cannot use my work computer to create the passkey, I can’t only log into accounts that I am allowed to use.

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We have not reached that point yet but passkeys or something analogous minus the fancy name has been around for decades now under several names such as [Hardware token](https://help.access.securid.com/EN_US/Content/Production/ngx_c_hardware_token.html) so they can use those instead of a smartphone for cases like yours.

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