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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There are other possibilites for passkeys like hardware tokens. But you will need some kind of secondary device with you to use the passkey or the computer you can use needs the ability to take fingerprints. But youalready have this problem with (real) two factor authentication, so if the jail wants you to be able to use your accounts securly they will have to figure something out at somepoint to give you access to a secondary device for both passkey and two factor.

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