Best practice to use Bitwarden as passkey provider

[cmbarton (Michael Barton)]

@Nail1684

What are your MacOS and Safari versions?

What version of the Bitwarden browser extension do you have installed?

@cmbarton

I have passkeys turned on.

I guess, that means you have turned on: Settings → Notifications → Ask to save and use passkeys ? (kind of rethorical question or “double check”, as you already wrote you get passkey prompt)

Yes

@Nail1684

Your GitHub login item in Bitwarden has https://github.com (also) stored as an URI?

Yes

@Nail1684

And then, you don’t have https://github.com on your Excluded domains? (Settings → Notifications → Excluded domains)

It wasn’t and then was. I cleared this out from my excluded domains and saved (BitWarden Safari extension)

Here is what happens. I’ll try to add screenshots if permitted. [Looks like I’m not permitted to add more than one screenshot.]

1. In GitHub security and password settings click Add passkey. This goes to the add passkey screen.

2. Click “use passkey”. The GitHub window goes into a ‘waiting’ mode, and a popup appears (looks like a BitWarden popup) that says “log in with a passkey?” “No passkeys found for this application” Options are to “close” or “use device hardware key”

3. Clicking “close” or hardware key “just once” closes the popup and opens another Apple popup prompting me to reactivate the Passwords app for autofill in order to save the passkey there.

4. Clicking hardware key “always for this site” also added GitHub to the BitWarden excluded domains.

I never get any option to save a passkey in BitWarden no matter what I do.

Once for the financial site, clicking “just this once” also brought up a QR code. I tried scanning that with my phone. It did bring up BitWarden to tell me that the URL was not recognized and asked me if I wanted to add it. I did, but still did not get a passkey.

So how’s this supposed to work??