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Has anyone been able to get WebAuthN working on Safari with FIDO2 keys? I just downloaded this preview, tried several WebAuthn example sites that work fine on Chrome and Firefox, but on Safari nothing happens and my Yubikey 5 doesn’t even light up.



Those sites are probably doing useragent filtering. Force a Chrome or Firefox useragent in the Developer menu and try again.


I have a solokey (solokeys.com) that supports FIDO2/U2F.

I can get Dropbox and https://webauthn.me/ to work with the key in Safari without any trouble.

I cannot get Google or Github to work with the key. I tried changing user-agent string and using Firefox, no luck.


in my experience sites still gate on UA rather than available functionality, so maybe UA checks are involved?


I know some sites that do this but it’s definitely not working on sites where no UA gate is involved, the WebAuthN request is being made but my Yubikey never lights up




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