One of the bigger security announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week is Apple’s new requirement that app developers must implement the company’s new single sign-on solution, Sign In with Apple, wherever they already offer another third-party sign-on system.
Apple’s decision to require its button in those scenarios is considered risky — especially at a time when the company is in the crosshairs of the U.S. Department of Justice over antitrust concerns. Apple’s position on the matter is that it wants to give its customers a more private choice.
For consumers, they get the same fast sign-up and login as with other services, but with the knowledge that the apps aren’t sharing their information with an entity they don’t trust.
Consumers can also choose whether or not to share their email with the app developer. If customers decide not to share their real email, Apple will generate a random — but real and verified — email address for the app in question to use, then will route the emails the app wants to send to that address. The user can choose to disable this app email address at any time like — like if they begin to get spam, for example.
MacDailyNews Take: Sign In with Apple is a beautiful solution for those of us who value our privacy and it works with all Apple devices — Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and iPod touch!
Yes and it can only work better than WordPress does with MDN, hell its like being on a PC.its so unreliable. The bait is cast.
Can’t wait for the feature to be available. As it is now I maintain 2 email accounts: one (@me.com) where I trust the entity won’t share/sell my address with others, and the second (@aol.com) where I don’t trust the entity to keep my address private. Been using the @aol.com since 1993 and get 20 – 30 unwanted emails daily, on @me.com maybe two a month.
Then I have registered with over a hundred sites over the years, maintains passwords for all that I continue to use is a hassle I’d like to eliminate. I DO NOT USE FACEBOOK, TWITTER OR GOOGLE TO SIGN IN FOR ANYTHING JUST BECAUSE.
I will be using Sign in with Apple.
Actually, I’d like some internal consistency with just Apple. I have a single Apple account which gets auto-conflated because of how Apple has migrated over the years … @me.com @mac.com @icloud.com – – its an utter headache and mess which doesn’t “Just Work”.