Between Google’s new Verified Email feature and passkeys for a passwordless reality, your account authentication is supposed to work seamlessly without requiring you to remember a hundred passwords. While Passkeys replace passwords, Verified Email is Google’s way of eliminating the OTP verification loop. I’ve always been excited about the idea of ditching those complex passwords, even though they are generated by my password manager, and multiple authentication steps. With so many options around to make passwordlessness a reality, I thought of giving it a shot.On paper, it should have worked beautifully, making account logins simpler and almost single-tap. While the technology itself is quite impressive, I found the user experience to be much more fragmented than I would like it to be. That inconsistency literally threw my little experiment off the tracks — and I’ll tell you how.