TouchBridge

Touch ID is great — until you don’t have it. Mac mini, Mac Studio, and the new MacBook Neo (base variant) all ship without a built-in fingerprint sensor, so every sudo is a password prompt. Apple’s official fix is a $199 Magic Keyboard with Touch ID or up-selling to higher variant.

TouchBridge does it for free. Type sudo, your iPhone buzzes, tap Face ID, done. Works on any Mac (Intel or Apple Silicon), with any keyboard.

The private key lives in your iPhone’s Secure Enclave and never leaves. Pairing is local, transport is BLE — no cloud, no account, no telemetry. Falls back to your password cleanly if the phone isn’t around.

I built it because I refused to buy a $199 keyboard just to skip typing my password. Turns out a lot of other people felt the same way — 200+★ and counting, listed in awesome-mac and GitHub’s productivity-tools collection.