passkeys are rare and few websites offer them, but I choose passkeys as a priority when available.
I store the passkeys in Bitwarden, however I’m unclear how to see if an account is setup with a passkey?
I don’t need to see the passkey, unless others know a reason why, but need to know if the account is setup with passphrase or passkey.
If I choose the wrong type, some websites think I’m a hacker and lock me out and all sorts of problems follow. So with the information, I could quickly use correct passkeys on websites 100% enabled with passkeys.
I found a post about viewing Bitwarden passkeys, but I don’t see a need for that right now…just knowing if the account is passkey enabled.
Could you please provide an example of such a problematic website?
Most websites will either prompt you for a passkey without user action, or will have a link or button labeled “Log in with passkey” (or some such) that you can press to start the passkey authentication process. If your Bitwarden vault is unlocked, it should automatically present a passkey for the website to use, if you have one in your vault. Conversely, if Bitwarden does not present a passkey, that usually means that you do not have a passkey stored there. In that case, you should just be able to cancel the passkey authentication process, and instead log in with a username and password.
I cannot conceive of a website that would lock your account or otherwise penalize you for canceling a passkey authentication before the process is completed.
If you view the item, you can see the add date for a passkey, and they can be deleted when editing the item. What is not easy is searching for sites that have a passkey, which is why I append (passkey) to the name.
But as @grb suggests, it probably is not that big of an issue in that bitwarden is really good at searching for passkeys when the site wants one.
I think there was confusion when I select Passkey, the passkey on the iPhone is then using Face ID, so I guess the passkey is stored on the phone, rather than Bitwarden.
I would prefer all on Bitwarden, however I guess Apple doesn’t allow that. Too difficult for now to dig into how to move passkey from phone to Bitwarden.
The Google and Discord passkeys are now smoother and clearer that I can see Bitwarden shows a Passkey is created on the Login item.
@kotgc Regarding passkeys and the Bitwarden iPhone app, I would recommend to check with this Help Site (though the images there might not represent the current appearance of the app): Autofill From iOS App | Bitwarden
And at last, as I understand you want to be able to easily find find login items with passkeys, I would like to throw in three open feature requests that have three different suggestions to that “issue”:
Copy this breadcrumb/navigation path:
Phone iPhone 11 iOS 26.1 → tap Passwords app → Passwords → tap Passkeys → tap passkey → Edit or Export.
This shows passkeys saved on iOS, however my problem of logging into apple.com with passkey needs me to ask Apple. The passkey isn’t on Bitwarden nor the iOS Passwords app.
Some passkeys specify that they must be “device bound”. In this case, they can not be stored in Bitwarden because it inherently syncs passkeys, along with all other credentials to all of your devices.
Some passkey require a test for “user verification”. One of the ways Bitwarden verifies users is by Face-ID, so it is possible to have been initiated by Bitwarden.
Found the problem:
iOS 26.1 passkeys are all managed in Passwords app,
except for https://account.apple.com/ which hides the passkey with Face ID and cannot be accessed.
Digression perhaps for a new post?
I’m exporting passkeys from iOS 26.1 to Bitwarden 2025.12.0 (2787).
Bitwarden passkey imports have some challenges:
Bitwarden import creates n amount of copies as iOS 26.1 exports n amount. Meaning you have 1 original Bitwarden login item + Bitwarden login item only for passkey x n.
Bitwarden doesn’t merge the newly imported login item passkeys into the original Bitwarden login item
Bitwarden can’t copy the newly imported login items’ passkey into the original Bitwarden login item
solution/workaround: copy old account details to the new passkey account
loses old account metadata; some enthusiasts like the old account street cred
manual hassle is high
Screenshot:
1 original account created ages ago
2 imported via iOS Password app export, passkey login item created 202601211653
3 imported via iOS Password app export, passkey login item created 202601211705
There is currently no solution to what I described despite thread marked as solved “Passkeys shown on Bitwarden or which login items have passkeys available?”
@Sasha888 This is a thread in the “Ask the Community” section that @kotgc started. The “solution” was marked by @kotgc, so it seems @kotgc’s issue is solved for now.
You could start a thread of your own. But I think, if I understand you correctly, you also could join one (or more) of those three feature requests on the same topic, as there currently is no solution to find login items with passkeys in your vault (when you didn’t mark them individually). These three feature requests suggest three different solutions for that:
@kotgc If it is okay for you: I now changed the title to better reflect your actual question. (previous title was Passkeys shown on Bitwarden or which login items have passkeys available? – and the new title is How to see if an account (login item) is set up with a passkey?)
Pedantically, there is a way (described above). You may not like it, but there is a way.
Perhaps more practically from a bulk perspective, you could also export your vault into unencrypted JSON format and search for “passkey” in that file.
Then use that knowledge to tag the entries, either in their Item Name (as I did) for maximum visibility, or in their Notes field if you just want to be able to search for them.
When done, move the CSV to a flash drive that you hide someplace safe so that you have a backup incase of disaster.
