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"Passkeys allow you to go passwordless — rather than a password that can still be phished — you get strong credential that syncs securely across your devices, using your chosen password/passkey manager."

This sentence doesn't quite make grammatical sense to me. Is there a typo or two here, or am I missing something?

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you get _a_ strong credential, or you get _strong credentials_ , probably

There's a lot going on in there!

Ah, thanks, I think it makes sense now. The use of hyphens is confusing too. I would have preferred either:

> Passkeys allow you to go passwordless: rather than a password that can still be phished, you get a strong credential that syncs securely across your devices, using your chosen password/passkey manager.

OR

> Passkeys allow you to go passwordless — rather than a password that can still be phished, you get a strong credential that syncs securely across your devices, using your chosen password/passkey manager.

I don't think that I've ever seen credential in the singular (though the dictionary says that it is a thing)

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