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How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?

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Re: How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?

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Post by ir77 »

unfortunately there are very few apps so far that allow signing in with apple even though i see them offer email, google and facebook options. i think out of all of the apps that i use only adobe lightroom allowed me to sign up with apple.

Re: How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?

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Post by rudedogg »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #4

> It’s utterly private, where signing in with Google or Facebook is not at all, yet far more convenient than signing up with your email address. What is different in the privacy design of 'sign in with apple'?

> At your first sign in, apps and websites can ask only for your name and email address to set up an account for you. You can use Hide My Email—Apple's private email relay service—to create and share a unique, random email address that forwards to your personal email. That way you can receive useful messages from the app without sharing your personal email address. Only the registered app or site developer can communicate with you using this email, and you can turn it off at any time.

> Sign in with Apple won’t track or profile you as you use your favorite apps and websites, and Apple retains only the information that’s needed to make sure you can sign in and manage your account.

From https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210318

Re: How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?

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Post by m3kw9 »

ir77 wrote: post #5

unfortunately there are very few apps so far that allow signing in with apple even though i see them offer email, google and facebook options. i think out of all of the apps that i use only adobe lightroom allowed me to sign up with apple.

Because those app devs also wants to know more about you

Re: How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?

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Post by Etheryte »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #4

> It’s utterly private, where signing in with Google or Facebook is not at all, yet far more convenient than signing up with your email address. What is different in the privacy design of 'sign in with apple'?

As covered on Macrumors [1], you have the option of using a unique generated email on Apple's servers which then forwards to your own email without the service provider getting any info about you. You also have the option to choose what data, if any, you share with the service.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/guide/sign-in-with-apple/

Re: How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?

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Post by Dragonai »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #4

> It’s utterly private, where signing in with Google or Facebook is not at all, yet far more convenient than signing up with your email address. What is different in the privacy design of 'sign in with apple'?

Here's a link for ya:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210318

In essence, Apple generates a unique email address through their relay service that forwards to (and thus hides) your actual email address. It was widely considered a pretty major step in the right direction for user privacy.

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