Ask HN: Mobile devs who added Apple Sign In, what conversion changes?

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Post by davidajackson » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

Curious if adding apple sign in substantially affected conversion rate for mobile apps, thanks.

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Post by gigatexal » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 6:03 PM UTC

I’m not a dev but a consumer in this question and I’d just say a service or site that has Sign In with Apple and Apple Pay available on the web is and instant use on my end. I will continue to vote with my paltry wallet for these technologies to take off even more, especially Sign In with Apple.

I don’t want to give my actual email out. I like the relay aspect. And it should make logging in and user management and single sign on and all that much easier no?

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Post by sails » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC

gigatexal wrote: post #2

I’m not a dev but a consumer in this question and I’d just say a service or site that has Sign In with Apple and Apple Pay available on the web is and instant use on my end. I will continue to vote with my paltry wallet for these technologies to take off even more, especially Sign In with Apple. I don’t want to give my actual email out. I like the relay aspect. And it should make logging in and user management and si…

Likewise. I will not create an account unless I am certain I'll use the app.

With Apple Sign In, I will consider trying it.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 6:21 PM UTC

gigatexal wrote: post #2

I’m not a dev but a consumer in this question and I’d just say a service or site that has Sign In with Apple and Apple Pay available on the web is and instant use on my end. I will continue to vote with my paltry wallet for these technologies to take off even more, especially Sign In with Apple. I don’t want to give my actual email out. I like the relay aspect. And it should make logging in and user management and si…

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Post by jrockway » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 6:42 PM UTC

gigatexal wrote: post #2

I’m not a dev but a consumer in this question and I’d just say a service or site that has Sign In with Apple and Apple Pay available on the web is and instant use on my end. I will continue to vote with my paltry wallet for these technologies to take off even more, especially Sign In with Apple. I don’t want to give my actual email out. I like the relay aspect. And it should make logging in and user management and si…

What apps are using Apple Sign In, anyway? I haven't run into any and kind of just assumed it died or hasn't launched yet.

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Post by shadowgoat » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC

Haven’t done anything with Apple sign in, but I worked with a lot of other providers before. If you have multiple options, users might forget what service they used. This becomes an even bigger problem if the paid for a service with a different provider and can’t find their purchase. If you do use something like this, only having one provider (only Apple) makes things less confusing.

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Post by sjroot » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #5

gigatexal wrote: post #2

I’m not a dev but a consumer in this question and I’d just say a service or site that has Sign In with Apple and Apple Pay available on the web is and instant use on my end. I will continue to vote with my paltry wallet for these technologies to take off even more, especially Sign In with Apple. I don’t want to give my actual email out. I like the relay aspect. And it should make logging in and user management and si…

What apps are using Apple Sign In, anyway? I haven't run into any and kind of just assumed it died or hasn't launched yet.

At this point, any app that is sold on the App Store that offers any OIDC auth options (e.g. Google, Facebook) MUST also include Sign in with Apple.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile devs who added Apple Sign In, what conversion changes?

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Post by darkcha0s » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #5

gigatexal wrote: post #2

I’m not a dev but a consumer in this question and I’d just say a service or site that has Sign In with Apple and Apple Pay available on the web is and instant use on my end. I will continue to vote with my paltry wallet for these technologies to take off even more, especially Sign In with Apple. I don’t want to give my actual email out. I like the relay aspect. And it should make logging in and user management and si…

What apps are using Apple Sign In, anyway? I haven't run into any and kind of just assumed it died or hasn't launched yet.

I haven’t seen it until about 5 minutes ago— the ZDF (one of the German national broadcast channels) uses it for their on demand app. Otherwise I frequently use Apple Pay with Lieferando (a European delievery Service). Have to say it’s pretty seamless and it saves me 3 taps compared to paying with PayPal.

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Post by nocture » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 6:50 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #5

gigatexal wrote: post #2

I’m not a dev but a consumer in this question and I’d just say a service or site that has Sign In with Apple and Apple Pay available on the web is and instant use on my end. I will continue to vote with my paltry wallet for these technologies to take off even more, especially Sign In with Apple. I don’t want to give my actual email out. I like the relay aspect. And it should make logging in and user management and si…

What apps are using Apple Sign In, anyway? I haven't run into any and kind of just assumed it died or hasn't launched yet.

Our iOS team added it late last year to the KAYAK app. Don’t know the percentage of users who used it, but tried it myself and was an instant fan.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile devs who added Apple Sign In, what conversion changes?

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Post by ShakataGaNai » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 6:51 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #5

gigatexal wrote: post #2

I’m not a dev but a consumer in this question and I’d just say a service or site that has Sign In with Apple and Apple Pay available on the web is and instant use on my end. I will continue to vote with my paltry wallet for these technologies to take off even more, especially Sign In with Apple. I don’t want to give my actual email out. I like the relay aspect. And it should make logging in and user management and si…

What apps are using Apple Sign In, anyway? I haven't run into any and kind of just assumed it died or hasn't launched yet.

Originally Apple set a very aggressive due date for this feature and the dev's fought back. So the due date was pushed back to April 2020. Moving forward you should start to see it appear on almost any app that already has social auth.

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09122019b

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sig...