One of the bigger frustrations with passkeys has always been that they’re tied to wherever you set them up. Move to a new phone or switch password managers, and you’re stuck re-registering at every site from scratch. Google Password Manager passkeys may finally have a fix for that on Android.
Android Authority recently activated a hidden interface inside Google Password Manager that adds passkey import and export support. In its current form, the existing settings options for passwords appear to be getting upgraded to cover passkeys too. Android Authority confirmed the interface actually works, not just as a visual placeholder. Still, it isn’t live for regular users yet.
What Google Password Manager Passkeys Import and Export Solves
Right now, your passkeys sync fine across your own devices. The problem is moving them elsewhere. Want to switch to Bitwarden or iCloud Keychain? You currently have to delete each passkey and re-register on every site individually. That’s a pain.
The import and export feature handles that with a single flow. Open a supported password manager on Android, and you’d get a prompt to transfer your passkeys over. For example, Android Authority tested this with Bitwarden and it worked. Transfers rely on the Credential Exchange Protocol (CXP), a FIDO Alliance standard that keeps passkeys secure between apps.
There’s also a safety guard baked in. Specifically, Google will reportedly block exports to apps that don’t meet security standards. A warning message reads “Export blocked for your protection” when that happens.
Apple already shipped passkey portability in iOS 26 and macOS 26, and Bitwarden and 1Password support it too. So Google has backed CXP for a while, but Android still doesn’t have it. Once Google Password Manager passkeys export goes live, other Android password managers that support passkeys, like Samsung Pass, could tap into the same mechanism. Google has been pushing passkeys as the default login method for some time now, so the import/export support is a logical next step. No launch date has been announced.
