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WebOTP API: cross-device support

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 93)

Intent stage

Shipped

Summary

We plan to support WebOTP API on desktop when both Chrome Desktop and Chrome Android are logged into the same Google account.

Motivation

The WebOTP API gives developers the ability to programmatically read one time code from specially-formatted SMSes addressed to their origin to reduce user friction. Currently it is only available on mobile devices where SMS is supported. Given that the need of one-time-code verification is higher on desktop, this project is to bring the WebOTP API to those platforms.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://wicg.github.io/web-otp/
• Firefox: Negative — negative signals around the premise (using SMS), no clear signal regarding API
• Safari: Neutral — Positive Signal regarding SMS convention and Neutral Signal regarding imperative API
• Web developers: Positive — Positive for this API
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1015645

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SlIaRlH0WEvvLMtQJZMuwZbH5bRs6SCPlxXwwnJQHMU/edit#heading=h.xgjl2srtytjt

Samples: https://web-otp-demo.glitch.me/

Explainers: https://github.com/WICG/web-otp/blob/master/explainer.md

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