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Dashlane’s new Passkey Power Report makes something very clear for consumers and businesses alike. Passkeys are no longer a future project for IT departments. They are becoming part of daily life for end-users, and the adoption curve will rapidly accelerate from here. According to the report, 40% of Dashlane customers now store at least one passkey, which is double what the report showed last year. One likely huge reason for this growth is that Google made passkeys the default for personal Google accounts, pushing its own usage up more than 350%. Even SaaS apps like HubSpot and Okta are experiencing rapid growth as they roll out support.
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For Apple IT teams, the timing of this report lines up with something important happening inside the Apple ecosystem. Apple announced support for the FIDO Alliance’s passkey portability standard in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26. It may seem like a minor feature, but it addresses one of the biggest challenges enterprises have faced with passkeys on Apple devices. Until now, passkeys lived inside Apple Passwords with no clean way to move them to a third-party tool that a business might standardize on. With passkey portability, employees and IT teams can move a credential between Apple Passwords to another password manager (or from one password SaaS to another) without using insecure CSV files.
There is also a straightforward security benefit. Passwords still drive most breaches. Passkeys eliminate entire categories of incidents by eliminating phishing, password reuse, and credential stuffing from the attack surface. The Dashlane report clearly indicates that end-user behavior is shifting. Once people become accustomed to signing in without passwords, they tend to resist going back. This will put pressure on businesses to modernize their login flows, particularly as more SaaS tools adopt passkeys as the primary authentication option.
Enterprise adoption accelerates when the biggest SaaS players commit
HubSpot and Okta entering the top domains for Dashlane usage is a major signal that passkeys are hitting the mainstream of business and enterprise services. These are not niche tools. They are core parts of the stack for some of the most recognizable brands in the world. Once companies like Okta treat passkeys as a first-class authentication method, it becomes much harder for IT teams to justify holding on to passwords. Once you add in Apple supporting passkey portability, the passwordless ecosystem will be finally ready for enterprise scale.
Most enterprises are in some stage of rolling out Zero Trust requirements. Passkeys adoption slots naturally into those frameworks because they combine something you have (your device) with something you are (biometrics). The report shows user behavior trending toward this model on its own, so enterprises that adopt now will not be training people on something unfamiliar. Apple devices already enforce strong local security, so layering passkeys on top tightens the entire chain. Said another one: passkey adoption is building on the foundation that Touch ID and Face ID built.
Wrap up
Passkey adoption is accelerating, and the Dashlane report shows that the momentum is real. When consumer behavior shifts this quickly across a variety of services and industries, it always spills over into the enterprise. What encourages me the most is that Apple has been laying the groundwork for this transition for more than a decade. Touch ID and Face ID changed how people authenticate. They created a level of comfort and trust with biometric login that made the jump to passkeys feel natural instead of cumbersome.
That foundation is a major reason passkeys have gained traction so quickly on Apple devices. The hardware and the security model were already in place. Passkey portability in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26 now removes the remaining friction for IT teams, making it easy to standardize on a single passwordless authentication experience across the entire stack.
Apple built the foundation years ago for passkeys with Touch ID and Face ID. Services and apps are adopting it. Now it is time for the enterprise IT teams to follow. Download the entire report to learn more.
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