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What are you talking about? Redundancy is how you avoid getting locked out. Each passkey serves as a backup for the other one.

More generally, you should have two keys for any lock, so you can still get in if you lose one of them.



Setting up both Apple and Google passkeys solves:

* Lost access to your Google account, but still have access to your Apple account (or vice-versa)

* Apple device doesn't support Google passkeys, or vice-versa

But it multiplies the following downsides:

* Apple/Google account gets hacked, hacker gets all your 2FA credentials

* Snooping on your activity. Particularly Google, but Apple also have an advertising business.

* Setting up accounts on new sites is twice the hassle.

* Too complicated for the kind of folks who need the phishing protection passkeys provide.




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