If you read the article and came to the conclusion Apple (google, Microsoft, amazon )is lying, that’s not my thoughts. I’m taking Apple at their word. You can think whatever you want.
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Sign in with Apple: What It Is and How It Works
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How can the developer not know when the app connects to the developers servers. The developers own and control those servers. Or I'm wrong and apple pays for and controls the servers Dropbox uses.
One is free to believe whatever they want. I personally takes apples’ words at face value.
I would like to use this feature, but I have not yet seen a website that offers Sign In with Apple.
kayak.com does. I tested there. I’m still surprised, though, that even the websites dedicated to technology such as this one or The Verge still aren’t supporting sign in with apple. That has come as a bit of a shock to me, since they being tech websites and having published articles about it I thought they would immediately start supporting the feature when iOS/iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina were publicly released.
MacRumors doesn’t have Facebook or Google or Twitter sign in — they have their own — so they’re not required to implement Sign In With Apple.
It would be nice to get rid of having to use passwords entirely, even if they’re in my keychain.
I’ve been growing increasingly wary of Google, Facebook and Amazon tracking my movements around the web. I’m taking every opportunity to removing my Facebook logins for third party sites that have been accumulating over the years masking my email address.
I think that as Sign In With Apple is out in the wild, you’ll start to see some of the bigger sites adopting it, specially if they have Facebook login options. Once they do, smaller ones will follow as the deadline next year gets closer, and then everyone will have to.
They do have sign in with facebook and twitter, look at the screenshot below. I hope they add sign in with apple soon.
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oh, I hadn’t noticed. I guess it’s been years since I’ve even had to think about signing in. That said, MacRumors isn’t an app and isn’t under the requirement to provide Sign In With Apple. I do hope @arn does it though. I mean, this is an Apple fan site after all.
Is that really more secure to give out my iCloud account ID (email)? Doesn't that really give out something more sacred than an email account (which you can create one just for sign-ons)?
Keep in mind that they can still sell a randomly generated Apple email. It’s just that now you can determine which companies are abusing your data.
What’s less clear is how you would go about changing a Sign In With Apple ID relay email.
edit: I might add the the proxy emails are a great and cheap way to have unique email aliases. Most email providers (Apple included) only allow for a handful of aliases. Just like you should have a unique password on every site, having a unique email address not publicly connected to your primary account — coupled with token-based logins — is a great thing for countering data breaches.
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Thanks, This is helpful! I guess it still doesn't help if you want to create a new account with your main gmail address, but my Apple ID (iCloud) is a me.com address. ?
No they do have to support it by adding a link or a button to offer the option to sign in with apple, just like many sites already have links or buttons for ’sign in with facebook’ and/or ’sign in with google’. Unfortunately, most apps and websites still haven’t done so and probably won’t do it before April when it becomes a requirement.What happened here? Shouldn’t this work now, all over the internet...?
I thought it was a technique that would work even if the site itself didn’t support it. As it is now, it just feels incomplete.
I doubt it. This is for other sites that already offer the option to sign in using facebook or google login credentials. Now those sites can also offer the option to sign in using appleid login credentials, with the advantage that Apple lets you hide your real email address if you want to.