ExpressVPN+ Gets a Redesigned Dashboard — With Passkey Sign-In as the Real Upgrade

ExpressVPN has rolled out a redesigned ExpressVPN+ dashboard that pulls account, privacy, security and subscription management into a single hub — available now to existing subscribers. Product redesigns are usually easy to ignore, but this one has a genuinely worthwhile headline feature: passkey sign-in. Here's what changed and why one of these updates actually matters for your security.

Passkey sign-in: the part worth caring about

The standout addition is passkeys. Instead of typing a password, you can now log in to ExpressVPN using your device's fingerprint or face recognition. That's not just convenience — it's a real security upgrade, because passkeys are phishing-resistant by design.

Here's the key detail: a passkey only works on the real ExpressVPN sign-in page. A fake lookalike login — the kind that harvests passwords in classic phishing attacks — simply can't trigger it. There's no password to type, so there's nothing for an attacker to capture or trick out of you. If you want the full picture of how passkeys differ from passwords, our explainer on password managers, passkeys and VPNs breaks it down, and it complements the earlier ExpressKeys passkey and secure-sharing update.

Prefer passwords? They still work. Passkeys are an option, not a forced switch — but if your device supports biometrics, it's one of the few "upgrades" that's genuinely worth turning on.

Everything in one hub

The redesign's other goal is consolidation. The new dashboard brings product management, security insights, product status and training videos into a single view, rather than scattering them across separate pages. For anyone who's ever hunted through account settings to find one toggle, a unified hub is a small but real quality-of-life win — and it makes the security insights easier to actually notice and act on.

Built-in travel eSIMs

The dashboard now also lets you buy and manage holiday.com travel eSIMs directly — handy if you travel and want mobile data abroad without swapping physical SIMs or paying roaming fees. Worth being clear-eyed here: this is a third-party eSIM service surfaced inside the ExpressVPN dashboard, a convenience add-on rather than a core VPN feature. If you travel often, pairing local data with a VPN is a sensible combo (our best VPN services in 2026 roundup covers who does travel well), but judge the eSIM pricing on its own merits.

Also from ExpressVPN this week: the UK kids-and-VPNs data

Separately, ExpressVPN — with the VPN Trust Initiative — published YouGov research on how UK children actually use VPNs, and the numbers push back on a popular assumption. According to the research, only 1.4% of UK children use a VPN to reach age-restricted content, just 14% had used a VPN at all in the past year, and among young VPN users 61% cite privacy as the reason. Parents, meanwhile, worry far more about contact from strangers (65%) than about VPN use (10%).

It's vendor-commissioned research, so read it with that in mind — but it lands squarely in the UK's age-verification and VPN debate, where the fear that kids are "widely" using VPNs to dodge age checks has been driving policy talk. The data suggests that fear is overstated.

Bottom line

Most of this update is housekeeping — a cleaner hub, an eSIM storefront — but the passkey sign-in is a legitimate security improvement you can act on today, and it's the reason to actually open the new dashboard. If you're an existing ExpressVPN subscriber, turn passkeys on. If you're weighing ExpressVPN in the first place, our full ExpressVPN review covers where it stands on speed, privacy and price.

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Product details are from ExpressVPN's announcement; the ExpressVPN+ dashboard redesign is rolling out to existing subscribers. Travel eSIMs are provided via holiday.com.