Windows 10: How can I save passkeys on my pc?

All of a sudden most of my passkeys got deleted and wanted to register them again. I went over to Discord to start there but it wont let me save it on my pc. It asks me 2 times to enter my pin to make sure its me and then when the choose where to save window shows up i cant save it on my pc. Clicking on more choices just hides them.

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passkeys on windows 11

hello

I have a windows 11 pc and I want to create passkeys for google, microsoft and other sites. I read the Microsoft article that says there is an option to save the passkey locally on the pc, but when i go to create the passkey I don t see that option, instead i can only use another pc or a security key.

Is there any reason why i cant save it on my pc? What can i do to save the passkey locally to my device?

Thank you for help

 

Save Passkey on Device not showing up

Hello,

According to Create a Passkey there should be an Option to save Passkeys on the Computer. However, I don't get that Option. The Computer has Windows Hello set up with a PIN and a Fingerprint. The Computer is also in an AD, so maybe that's the issue, but according to the Group Policy there shouldn't be any restrictions according to that.

 

Passkey disappeared after changing PIN

I recently started using the Hello passkey feature to use a PIN to log-in to my HP Probook, Windows 11 Pro, and to log into one specific app that requires a passkey. It worked fine until I decided to change my PIN to make it longer.

After changing my PIN, the app I need to log in to stopped showing the option to use Hello to sign in (it only offers me the choices of mobile or USB passkeys - same thing when just now I tried to log into this Microsoft site with a passkey, didn't show the option of Windows).

And looking under passkey settings in Windows, it says I have no saved passkeys.

(I've seen in the help docs here that the Windows login itself should appear on the passkey, list...? But I don't even see that.)

Any way to recover this? The passkey would've been stored locally on my PC...? Can I find that file?

I was not signed into Microsoft ever on this PC. But I hope they don't just delete all passkeys because of a simple PIN change....?