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prepareInterfaceToProvideCredential .oneTimeCode case is not called
Since release of 18.4. prepareInterfaceToProvideCredential .oneTimeCode case is not called and instead prepareInterfaceForUserChoosingTextToInsert() is called. That is the wrong delegate for this case and it causes confusion for the users. Also, some TOTP fields are recognised however, the key icon button is not presented above the keyboard next to TOTP suggestions. I've also tested 18.5 and it has the same issue. provideOneTimeCodeWithoutUserInteraction works just fine.
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Apple Maps Server API: Documentation and current Developer Portal authentication workflow
Hi everyone, I'm integrating Apple Maps Server API into the backend of a production iOS application (Java / Spring Boot). Before posting, I reviewed the following Apple documentation: Apple Maps Server API Creating and using tokens with Maps Server API Integrating the Apple Maps Server API into Java Server Applications Try Maps Server API I also verified the current Developer Portal behavior and inspected the network requests made by the Try Maps Server API page. What I verified Using the current Apple Developer Portal: Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Services → Maps → Configure Tokens I can successfully create a Server API token. I verified the following behavior: A Server API token can be created successfully. The token only supports the None restriction type. The token expires after 7 days. The Try Maps Server API page first calls GET /v1/token using the Server API token. The /v1/token endpoint returns a short-lived Maps access token. That Maps access token is then used to call Apple Maps Server API endpoints such as /v1/place, /v1/search, and /v1/reverseGeocode. Documentation vs. Developer Portal The current Apple Maps Server API documentation describes a production authentication flow in which developers: Create a Maps Identifier Create a Maps Private Key (.p8) Generate a signed authentication JWT Exchange that JWT for a Maps access token via GET /v1/token Use the Maps access token to call Apple Maps Server API However, in my current Apple Developer account: There is no Maps IDs section under Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Identifiers. There is no Maps or Apple Maps Server API key available under Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Keys. My account information: Apple Developer Program: Active Account Type: Individual Role: Account Holder Based on these observations, I'm not sure how the authentication flow described in the documentation relates to the authentication flow currently supported by the Developer Portal. Questions What is the currently recommended production authentication flow for Apple Maps Server API? Is the Server API token created from Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Services → Maps → Configure Tokens intended only for development and testing, or is it also the recommended authentication mechanism for long-running production backend services? If the production authentication flow described in the documentation is still the recommended approach, how can developers create a Maps Identifier and Maps Private Key using the current Developer Portal? Any clarification from Apple or from developers who have recently deployed Apple Maps Server API in production would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Sign in with Apple fails with ASAuthorizationError 1000 / AKAuthenticationError -7003 on a new App ID — server rejects the SRP exchange while other apps succeed on the same device
Sign in with Apple never completes for our app. The authorization sheet presents, the user confirms, and we get ASAuthorizationError 1000. The akd log shows the local entitlement check PASSING and the failure happening server-side. Environment: native ASAuthorizationAppleIDProvider (no web flow, no Services ID), TestFlight build, iOS 26. New App ID created 2026-08-06. akd, abridged — local check passes: akd Requesting password only: NO akd Client has default access level in SiwA entitlement akd Client has underage-users access level in SiwA entitlement sheet presents, user confirms: akd presenting authorization UI for request akd Remote view sent a user response event akd Attempting authorization with response then the server rejects it, after returning HTTP 200: akd Adding passwordlessToken: NO, and idmsDataToken: NO, to auth-params akd No password, but CK is available. Will ask for ck-based auth. akd Performing SRP request with context akd Task ... received response, status 200 content K akd AppleIDAuthSupport: setError: 2:M2 missing (bad password) akd Invalid/missing value for key acname: (null) akd SRP authentication with server failed! Domain=com.apple.AppleIDAuthSupport Code=2 akd Error performing auth request: Domain=AKAuthenticationError Code=-7003 What we have already ruled out: Sign in with Apple enabled on the App ID, configured as "Enable as a primary App ID" (verified in the portal UI, not just via the App Store Connect API). Provisioning profiles deleted and regenerated AFTER enabling the capability, twice, the second time a full day later. The embedded .mobileprovision in the shipped build contains com.apple.developer.applesignin = (Default). The signed binary carries the entitlement (codesign -d --entitlements on the archive). More than 24 hours elapsed since enabling the capability, per the guidance on -7003 in thread 789697. requestedScopes tried as both [.email] and [.fullName, .email]. App deleted and reinstalled; device restarted. Reproduced on a SECOND device (an iPad) that had never had the app installed. Control: a third-party App Store app created a brand-new Sign in with Apple association (it prompted for name, so first-time consent) on the same device and same Apple ID, minutes after our failure, so the account and device can create new associations. Question: what causes Apple's identity service to reject the SRP exchange for one client while accepting it for others on the same device and account? Is there additional App ID or account state we cannot see from the portal? Happy to provide the full akd log.
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Can a third-party credential provider participate in the FIDO2 hybrid (cross-device) transport as the authenticator?
Hey there, I'm trying to building an iOS credential provider (ASCredentialProviderExtension, iOS 17+) that manages passkeys backed by keys generated in the Secure Enclave, attested via App Attest. My question is about the cross-device (FIDO2 hybrid / "passkey on a nearby device") flow, where a phone authenticates a sign-in initiated on a separate client device (e.g. a laptop browser). Specifically, Can a third-party credential provider serve as the authenticator in this flow, signing with its own key — or is the cross-device role reserved for iCloud Keychain? If it can, does the OS handle the BLE advertisement and tunnel/handshake on the provider's behalf? I ask because it seems like CBPeripheralManager.startAdvertising(_:) will not emit raw bytes, so an app can't emit a CTAP hybrid advert itself. If neither is supported, is there any supported API — including MDM-managed/supervised-device capabilities — for an app to act as a cross-device FIDO2 authenticator with a non-iCloud-Keychain key? Thanks!
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AutoFill credential provider extension deadlocks on TKSmartCard.beginSession() during a passkey request on iOS 27
We ship a credential provider extension (ASCredentialProviderViewController, ProvidesPasskeys = true) backed by a USB CCID smart card token. It works on iOS 26.6. On iOS 27.0, TKSmartCard.beginSession() inside the extension never returns during a passkey request. The CryptoTokenKit log shows why. When a passkey request starts, AuthenticationServicesAgent takes an exclusive session on the reader to check whether it is a hardware security key. The check takes about 7 ms and comes back negative — our token has no FIDO applet. The agent then keeps the session for the rest of the request anyway. Our extension asks for the card 0.2 s later and gets queued behind it: 14:24:13.687776 usbsmartcardreaderd session requested by pid 2116 (1 now queued) 14:24:13.687793 usbsmartcardreaderd session busy (held by pid 2095); notifying holder 14:24:13.687849 AuthenticationServicesAgent got request for used session, setting flag to release it ASAP 14:24:34.884294 AuthenticationServicesAgent got request for used session, setting flag to release it ASAP 14:25:19.851779 AuthenticationServicesAgent got request for used session, setting flag to release it ASAP 14:26:12.501296 AuthenticationServicesAgent endSession 14:26:12.502320 usbsmartcardreaderd session granted to pid 2116 pid 2095 is the agent, pid 2116 is our extension. The system tells the holder three times that someone is waiting; it is released 118.8 s later, when the passkey request itself times out — by which point the card is useless to us. So it deadlocks: the agent holds the card until the request finishes, and the request cannot finish until we get the card to sign the assertion. One detail suggests this is not deliberate. The agent takes the session twice in a row and runs the identical check both times. The first one it releases after a second; the second one is the one that sticks. We saw the same pattern on two different days. We have not found any point in the request where the card is free. Things that do not work: grabbing it as early as viewDidLoad; grabbing it in provideCredentialWithoutUserInteraction before any UI appears; holding it in the containing app and handing it over once the extension starts (the queue is FIFO and the agent is ahead of us); and simply waiting, since the block lasts exactly as long as the request does. Has anyone else hit this? Has anyone shipped a smart-card-backed credential provider on iOS 27 and found a way around it? Is there any way to stop the system from claiming an attached reader while a passkey request is in flight — a setting, an Info.plist key, something on the relying party side, anything at all? We would happily take an ugly workaround at this point. And if you hit this and got nowhere either, that is useful to hear too — it would tell us this is not specific to our token. Questions Once the check has come back negative, the reader is known not to be a security key. Is there a supported way to make the agent release it at that point, or for an extension to declare that it needs exclusive access? Can this be turned off from Safari or from the relying party side? For an assertion (navigator.credentials.get): does hints: ["client-device"], or leaving usb out of transports in allowCredentials, stop the agent from claiming the reader? If so, that is a real mitigation for anyone who controls their own relying party. (authenticatorSelection.authenticatorAttachment only exists on registration options, so it is not available here.) Is TKSmartCard.beginSession() meant to block indefinitely, with no timeout and no cancellation? It bridges beginSessionWithReply:, so Swift concurrency cancellation does not reach it either. Failing with an error after a bounded wait would at least make this diagnosable instead of presenting as a hang. Filed as FB24171032 with a minimal sample project and full logs. Hardware, in case it matters: Aktiv Rutoken ECP, USB CCID. Any CCID reader without a FIDO applet should behave the same. iPhone 15 Pro on iOS 27.0 fails; iPhone 17 Pro on iOS 26.6 works, same binary and same token.
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Sign in with Apple fails with AKAuthenticationError -7003 for our client ID — reproduced by App Review
Our app can no longer complete native Sign in with Apple: the system sheet appears, the user authenticates (Face ID / password succeeds), and the sheet then fails before any credential is returned to the app. Console shows AKAuthenticationError -7003 from the AppleAccount/AuthorizationServices stack. Details: App: "Antes y Después: Fotos" — bundle ID com.jpbaldi.antesydespues, live on the App Store Team ID: PZDWZHXF9V (individual membership) Implementation: ASAuthorizationController (via expo-apple-authentication), scopes full name + email; the identityToken is exchanged with our backend (Supabase). The failure happens inside the native sheet, before any token is issued. Reproducible across devices, networks and Apple IDs — and App Review reproduced it too: our build was rejected under 2.1(a) because the reviewer hit the same failure. It does not look device- or account-specific. What we've already tried, with no change: Removed and re-added the Sign in with Apple capability on the App ID in Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, regenerated provisioning profiles, rebuilt and resubmitted. Verified com.apple.developer.applesignin (Default) is present in the shipped binary's entitlements. Fresh devices, different Apple IDs, different networks. As a workaround we shipped v1.0 with Sign in with Apple disabled (email/password only), so guideline 4.8 doesn't apply — but we want to restore it. Since -7003 appears to be returned server-side for our client ID rather than by anything in the app, is there any account-side registration state for the App ID that can be checked or reset? Has anyone resolved this exact error without creating a new App ID (not viable for a shipped app)? Feedback Assistant: FB23890204 (sysdiagnose + screen recording attached) Developer Support case ref: 102944296016
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Associated Domains webcredentials works with ?mode=developer but fails without it - AASA correctly configured
Hi everyone, We're migrating our iOS app from Auth0 custom scheme callbacks to HTTPS Universal URLs using ASWebAuthenticationSession. We've configured everything correctly, but webcredentials only works when using ?mode=developer suffix in our entitlements, which is not allowed for App Store submissions. The Issue Without ?mode=developer: Error Domain=com.apple.AuthenticationServices.WebAuthenticationSession Code=1 "Application with identifier com.example.myapp is not associated with domain auth.example.com. Using HTTPS callbacks requires Associated Domains using the webcredentials service type for auth.example.com." With ?mode=developer: webcredentials:auth.example.com?mode=developer Works perfectly! Questions Why does it work with ?mode=developer but not without it, even though Apple's CDN has the correct AASA? Is there a way to force iOS to re-verify associated domains without requiring users to delete and reinstall? How will this affect existing users who update the app? Will they need to reinstall? Is there a known propagation delay beyond the CDN showing correct data? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. We cannot ship to the App Store with ?mode=developer, but without it, the authentication fails. Thank you!
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How to bring webauth session to front
We have an application (macOS) which opens an ASWebAuthenticationSession window to prompt the user for credentials. This works well, except for there are times when the window is opened behind other windows - and the user does not see that they are being prompted for authentication. Is there some way to force this window to be always-on-top or at the very least, to bring it to the foreground on top of other windows (including other browser windows from the same default system browser).
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How can an iOS browser app request the Web Browser Public Key Credential entitlement for Passkeys?
Hello Apple Developer Team, I am developing a general-purpose web browser for iOS using WKWebView. Current status: • The app is distributed through TestFlight (Internal Testing). • The app is registered in App Store Connect. • The browser supports standard web browsing with multiple tabs and arbitrary websites. My goal is to support WebAuthn passkey authentication for websites such as Google, GitHub, Microsoft, and other websites that support passkeys. While reviewing Apple's documentation, I found: "Passkey use in web browsers" "Authenticating people by using passkeys in browser apps" These documents mention that browser apps on iOS can support passkeys using: ASAuthorizationWebBrowserPublicKeyCredentialManager and the entitlement: com.apple.developer.web-browser.public-key-credential However, I could only find a request form titled: "Request the macOS Web Browser Public Key Credential Entitlement" which specifically asks: "Is your app a web browser on macOS?" My application is an iOS web browser, not a macOS browser. In addition, I previously requested the Default Web Browser entitlement, but my request was declined. My questions are: Is there a separate application process for requesting the Web Browser Public Key Credential entitlement for an iOS browser? Is approval of the Default Web Browser entitlement required before an iOS browser can use WebAuthn passkeys? Can an iOS browser request only the Web Browser Public Key Credential entitlement without becoming the system default browser? Is there any official documentation describing the entitlement request process for iOS browser apps? I know that third-party browsers such as Aloha Browser appear to support system Passkeys on iOS, so I would like to understand the correct implementation and entitlement process for an iOS browser. Thank you very much for your guidance.
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resetKeys() also resets sharedDeviceSigningKey unexpectedly
I am using ASAuthorizationProviderExtensionLoginManager.resetKeys() to generate new user-specific keys, specifically userDeviceSigningKey and userDeviceEncryptionKey. Based on the documentation, my understanding was that resetKeys() only resets keys associated with a particular user account: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationservices/asauthorizationproviderextensionloginmanager/resetkeys/ However, during testing, I observed that calling resetKeys() also resets sharedDeviceSigningKey. I had assumed that shared device keys would only be reset via resetDeviceKeys().
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Unable to trigger .matchedExcludedCredentials for passkey
Hi everyone, was hoping I could get some help. Recently I've been trying to implement passkeys on my app and one of the use cases was that we don't allow users to create duplicated passkeys from the same device they are on. I passed the excludedCredentials into the registration and tried creating a passkey twice, on the 2nd time I am unable to create a passkey but instead of triggering the .matchedExcludedCredentials from the ASAuthorizationError like I hoped, I get a WKErrorDomain code 8 with the localized description At least one credential matches an entry of the excludeCredentials list in the platform attached authenticator. Been debugging but I still couldn't find the answer as to why the AS error is not triggered.
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Sign in with Apple app transfer: recovering legacy users without stored old team-scoped sub
Hello, We recently transferred our iOS app to a different Apple Developer team. App Store URL: https://apps.apple.com/kr/app/id6759354260 Bundle ID: com.kimchisushi.app Our app uses Sign in with Apple. In our legacy implementation, some existing Apple login users were stored in our backend by email only. For those users, we did not store the original team-scoped Apple user identifier (sub). The app transfer has already been completed, and we are currently within the 60-day migration window. For many users, the migration path is clear: If we have the old team-scoped sub, we can generate or exchange the transfer identifier according to Apple’s migration documentation. If a user signs in after the transfer and the identity token contains transfer_sub, we may be able to use that claim to complete the migration. However, our difficult case is this: Some legacy users used Sign in with Apple with Hide My Email / Private Relay. For those users, we only have the old private relay email address in our database. We do not have their old team-scoped sub. Questions: If we do not have the old team-scoped sub, is there any Apple-supported way to recover or map those legacy users using the old private relay email address? During the 60-day migration window, if one of these users signs in again after the app transfer, will the identity token include transfer_sub even if we did not generate a transfer identifier for that user before the transfer? If the identity token includes transfer_sub, is there any Apple-supported way to correlate that transfer_sub back to the user’s old private relay email address or old app account when the old sub was never stored? If the answer is no, is the recommended recovery path to implement our own account recovery / account relinking flow for these users? We understand that the Apple user identifier (sub) should have been stored as the stable identifier, and that email should not be treated as stable. We are trying to confirm whether there is any official recovery path for the subset of legacy users where the old sub was not stored before the app transfer. Thank you.
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Secure Enclave-based authentication at the login window after recent Platform SSO enhancements
With the recent Platform SSO announcements from Apple, I noticed that users can now authenticate at the macOS login window and Filevault screen using an OIDC-based web authentication flow through their IDP. My understanding was that historically, unlocking the user's keychain and establishing a login session required either: The user's local account password, or Smart card-based authentication integrated with macOS login mechanisms. Given the new Platform SSO capabilities, I am curious about the underlying authentication model and whether it introduces new possibilities for third-party developers. Specifically, is there now any supported mechanism for a third-party login or authorization solution to leverage Secure Enclave-backed credentials to establish a user session and unlock the login keychain without requiring a local password, similar to the passwordless experience enabled by Platform SSO? My use case is providing a passwordless login experience through a custom authorization plugin for organizations that may not want to deploy Platform SSO but still want users to authenticate using device-bound cryptographic credentials stored in the Secure Enclave. Are the capabilities used by Platform SSO available to third-party developers, or are they restricted to the Platform SSO framework and its associated system integrations? Any guidance on supported architectures or limitations would be appreciated.
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resetKeys() also resets sharedDeviceSigningKey unexpectedly
I am using ASAuthorizationProviderExtensionLoginManager.resetKeys() to generate new user-specific keys, specifically userDeviceSigningKey and userDeviceEncryptionKey. Based on the documentation, my understanding was that resetKeys() only resets keys associated with a particular user account: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationservices/asauthorizationproviderextensionloginmanager/resetkeys/ However, during testing, I observed that calling resetKeys() also resets sharedDeviceSigningKey. I had assumed that shared device keys would only be reset via resetDeviceKeys().
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Questions on Platform SSO - Password grant Type Flow Implementations
Hi Apple Community, Problem : Should be able to use my iDP password when I try to unlock my macOS local User Account.
 Password should sync across my macOS local User Account, when my User Account Password in iDP Changed
 Should have a provision to create a on-demand macOS local account with password of iDP Should be able to Create Primary Account in Automated Device Enrollment with password synced to iDP ( Simplified PSSO in Setup Assistant ) Solution : These can be solved if the Identity Provider implements Platform SSO , but not being implemented by all major Identity Providers Except major iDPs like Okta, Microsoft, Ping 
Since Platform SSO Offers the necessary framework and provision that satisfy the above needs I planned to make a open-source initiative to bridge in PSSO and Oauth ROPG to connect with Any OpenID Provider that supports Oauth ROPG 
I KNOW PSSO DOESN’T MEANT FOR THIS AND NEEDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY IDP, AND MEANINGFUL SSO TOKENS CAN BE ONLY ISSUED BY THEM TO HELP THE SSO EXTENSION 
But the native login Experience, FileVault Synchronization, Keychain Unlock everything being handled by OS in PSSO. I thought its best to go in this way The Attachment Includes the Components, Design Decisions of this Project , Questions in the PSSO Framework workflow. Including some Questions from new WWDC26 OpenID Authentication Method introduced in PlatformSSO Please help with the Questions in the Attachment and post if there is any suggestions on the workflow I described Filed Feedback with FB23065453
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Questions on Platform SSO - Password grant Type Flow Implementations
Hi Apple Community & Apple Team, 
Problem : Should be able to use my iDP password when I try to unlock my macOS local User Account.
 Password should sync across my macOS local User Account, when my User Account Password in iDP Changed
 Should have a provision to create a on-demand macOS local account with password of iDP Should be able to Create Primary Account in Automated Device Enrollment with password synced to iDP ( Simplified PSSO in Setup Assistant ) Solution : All the above Problems can be solved if the Identity Provider implements Platform SSO , but not being implemented by major Identity Providers Except Okta, Microsoft, Ping 
Since Platform SSO Offers the necessary framework and provision that satisfy the above needs I planned to make a open-source initiative to bridge in PSSO and Oauth ROPG to connect with Any OpenID Provider that supports Oauth ROPG ( Resource Owner Password Grant ) 
ITS RIGHT THAT PSSO DOESN’T MEANT FOR THIS AND NEEDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY IDENTITY PROVIDER, AND MEANINGFUL ID TOKENS CAN BE ONLY USED BY THEM TO HELP THE SSO EXTENSION 
But the native login Experience, FileVault Synchronization, Keychain Unlock everything being handled by OS in PSSO. I thought its best to go in this way The Attachment Includes the Components, Design Decisions of this Project , Questions in the PSSO Framework workflow. Including some Questions from new WWDC26 OpenID Authentication Method introduced in PlatformSSO Please help with the Questions in the Attachment and post if there is any suggestions on the workflow I described Filed a Feedback with ID FB23065453
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Sign in with Apple ends unexpectedly with code 1001
We're integrating Sign in with Apple into our iOS app The Apple ID login UI appears correctly on real devices, but after tapping Continue, the system immediately stops and shows code 1001. This issue happens across multiple devices and Apple ID accounts, even with no prior login history. We’ve confirmed the following Sign in with Apple is enabled in both Developer Portal and Xcode Capabilities Automatic signing and provisioning are set correctly Device is signed into iCloud and system time is synced Performed clean build, app reinstall, and other standard debugging steps We suspect that the sign in handshake process may not be completing properly due to some kind of account or server-side restriction, and we’d appreciate any insights into this behavior.
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Why can't I remove my app from AppleID?
Hello everybody, in my React Native-Expo-Firebase app, I am trying to integrate Sign in with Apple, along with the related token revocation at user deletion. I did succeed in integrating the login, and the app correctly appears in the Apple Id list (the list of apps currently logged with Apple ID). The problem is that, if I select the app and press "Interrupt Apple login usage for this app", the app simply stays there, nothing happens. If I do the same with another app, this works fine. Either if I do this via my iPhone's settings, or via https://account.apple.com/account/manage -> Sign in with Apple, I get the same result, the app cannot be removed. I hope I managed to explain my situation clearly, I'd be happy to provide more info if necessary. Thank you in advance.
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Recommendation for Authentication for the Enterprise with Identity Provider.
Throughout the years I've done a few integrations at my company with an iOS Application and an identity provider. I've implemented samples with UIWebView, WKWebview, Certificate based authentication through custom URLSession implementations and lastly through ASWebAuthentication. Also I gave the SSO Extension a try, but got stuck at some point (also Apple Forum didn't give me some solution -> https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/117747) I'm having troubles digging through the Apple resources to find the best approach for big enterprises. We make use of a MDM solution, so I was hoping to find means to 'exploit it' and don't implement any custom authenticationframework anymore. Also, granting SSO between Apps and websites is what my ideal goal would be. Could you point me to some resources that can help me or give me some guidance on which of the frameworks/SDKs to use?
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prepareInterfaceToProvideCredential .oneTimeCode case is not called
Since release of 18.4. prepareInterfaceToProvideCredential .oneTimeCode case is not called and instead prepareInterfaceForUserChoosingTextToInsert() is called. That is the wrong delegate for this case and it causes confusion for the users. Also, some TOTP fields are recognised however, the key icon button is not presented above the keyboard next to TOTP suggestions. I've also tested 18.5 and it has the same issue. provideOneTimeCodeWithoutUserInteraction works just fine.
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Apple Maps Server API: Documentation and current Developer Portal authentication workflow
Hi everyone, I'm integrating Apple Maps Server API into the backend of a production iOS application (Java / Spring Boot). Before posting, I reviewed the following Apple documentation: Apple Maps Server API Creating and using tokens with Maps Server API Integrating the Apple Maps Server API into Java Server Applications Try Maps Server API I also verified the current Developer Portal behavior and inspected the network requests made by the Try Maps Server API page. What I verified Using the current Apple Developer Portal: Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Services → Maps → Configure Tokens I can successfully create a Server API token. I verified the following behavior: A Server API token can be created successfully. The token only supports the None restriction type. The token expires after 7 days. The Try Maps Server API page first calls GET /v1/token using the Server API token. The /v1/token endpoint returns a short-lived Maps access token. That Maps access token is then used to call Apple Maps Server API endpoints such as /v1/place, /v1/search, and /v1/reverseGeocode. Documentation vs. Developer Portal The current Apple Maps Server API documentation describes a production authentication flow in which developers: Create a Maps Identifier Create a Maps Private Key (.p8) Generate a signed authentication JWT Exchange that JWT for a Maps access token via GET /v1/token Use the Maps access token to call Apple Maps Server API However, in my current Apple Developer account: There is no Maps IDs section under Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Identifiers. There is no Maps or Apple Maps Server API key available under Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Keys. My account information: Apple Developer Program: Active Account Type: Individual Role: Account Holder Based on these observations, I'm not sure how the authentication flow described in the documentation relates to the authentication flow currently supported by the Developer Portal. Questions What is the currently recommended production authentication flow for Apple Maps Server API? Is the Server API token created from Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Services → Maps → Configure Tokens intended only for development and testing, or is it also the recommended authentication mechanism for long-running production backend services? If the production authentication flow described in the documentation is still the recommended approach, how can developers create a Maps Identifier and Maps Private Key using the current Developer Portal? Any clarification from Apple or from developers who have recently deployed Apple Maps Server API in production would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Aug ’26
Sign in with Apple fails with ASAuthorizationError 1000 / AKAuthenticationError -7003 on a new App ID — server rejects the SRP exchange while other apps succeed on the same device
Sign in with Apple never completes for our app. The authorization sheet presents, the user confirms, and we get ASAuthorizationError 1000. The akd log shows the local entitlement check PASSING and the failure happening server-side. Environment: native ASAuthorizationAppleIDProvider (no web flow, no Services ID), TestFlight build, iOS 26. New App ID created 2026-08-06. akd, abridged — local check passes: akd Requesting password only: NO akd Client has default access level in SiwA entitlement akd Client has underage-users access level in SiwA entitlement sheet presents, user confirms: akd presenting authorization UI for request akd Remote view sent a user response event akd Attempting authorization with response then the server rejects it, after returning HTTP 200: akd Adding passwordlessToken: NO, and idmsDataToken: NO, to auth-params akd No password, but CK is available. Will ask for ck-based auth. akd Performing SRP request with context akd Task ... received response, status 200 content K akd AppleIDAuthSupport: setError: 2:M2 missing (bad password) akd Invalid/missing value for key acname: (null) akd SRP authentication with server failed! Domain=com.apple.AppleIDAuthSupport Code=2 akd Error performing auth request: Domain=AKAuthenticationError Code=-7003 What we have already ruled out: Sign in with Apple enabled on the App ID, configured as "Enable as a primary App ID" (verified in the portal UI, not just via the App Store Connect API). Provisioning profiles deleted and regenerated AFTER enabling the capability, twice, the second time a full day later. The embedded .mobileprovision in the shipped build contains com.apple.developer.applesignin = (Default). The signed binary carries the entitlement (codesign -d --entitlements on the archive). More than 24 hours elapsed since enabling the capability, per the guidance on -7003 in thread 789697. requestedScopes tried as both [.email] and [.fullName, .email]. App deleted and reinstalled; device restarted. Reproduced on a SECOND device (an iPad) that had never had the app installed. Control: a third-party App Store app created a brand-new Sign in with Apple association (it prompted for name, so first-time consent) on the same device and same Apple ID, minutes after our failure, so the account and device can create new associations. Question: what causes Apple's identity service to reject the SRP exchange for one client while accepting it for others on the same device and account? Is there additional App ID or account state we cannot see from the portal? Happy to provide the full akd log.
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Aug ’26
Can a third-party credential provider participate in the FIDO2 hybrid (cross-device) transport as the authenticator?
Hey there, I'm trying to building an iOS credential provider (ASCredentialProviderExtension, iOS 17+) that manages passkeys backed by keys generated in the Secure Enclave, attested via App Attest. My question is about the cross-device (FIDO2 hybrid / "passkey on a nearby device") flow, where a phone authenticates a sign-in initiated on a separate client device (e.g. a laptop browser). Specifically, Can a third-party credential provider serve as the authenticator in this flow, signing with its own key — or is the cross-device role reserved for iCloud Keychain? If it can, does the OS handle the BLE advertisement and tunnel/handshake on the provider's behalf? I ask because it seems like CBPeripheralManager.startAdvertising(_:) will not emit raw bytes, so an app can't emit a CTAP hybrid advert itself. If neither is supported, is there any supported API — including MDM-managed/supervised-device capabilities — for an app to act as a cross-device FIDO2 authenticator with a non-iCloud-Keychain key? Thanks!
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Aug ’26
AutoFill credential provider extension deadlocks on TKSmartCard.beginSession() during a passkey request on iOS 27
We ship a credential provider extension (ASCredentialProviderViewController, ProvidesPasskeys = true) backed by a USB CCID smart card token. It works on iOS 26.6. On iOS 27.0, TKSmartCard.beginSession() inside the extension never returns during a passkey request. The CryptoTokenKit log shows why. When a passkey request starts, AuthenticationServicesAgent takes an exclusive session on the reader to check whether it is a hardware security key. The check takes about 7 ms and comes back negative — our token has no FIDO applet. The agent then keeps the session for the rest of the request anyway. Our extension asks for the card 0.2 s later and gets queued behind it: 14:24:13.687776 usbsmartcardreaderd session requested by pid 2116 (1 now queued) 14:24:13.687793 usbsmartcardreaderd session busy (held by pid 2095); notifying holder 14:24:13.687849 AuthenticationServicesAgent got request for used session, setting flag to release it ASAP 14:24:34.884294 AuthenticationServicesAgent got request for used session, setting flag to release it ASAP 14:25:19.851779 AuthenticationServicesAgent got request for used session, setting flag to release it ASAP 14:26:12.501296 AuthenticationServicesAgent endSession 14:26:12.502320 usbsmartcardreaderd session granted to pid 2116 pid 2095 is the agent, pid 2116 is our extension. The system tells the holder three times that someone is waiting; it is released 118.8 s later, when the passkey request itself times out — by which point the card is useless to us. So it deadlocks: the agent holds the card until the request finishes, and the request cannot finish until we get the card to sign the assertion. One detail suggests this is not deliberate. The agent takes the session twice in a row and runs the identical check both times. The first one it releases after a second; the second one is the one that sticks. We saw the same pattern on two different days. We have not found any point in the request where the card is free. Things that do not work: grabbing it as early as viewDidLoad; grabbing it in provideCredentialWithoutUserInteraction before any UI appears; holding it in the containing app and handing it over once the extension starts (the queue is FIFO and the agent is ahead of us); and simply waiting, since the block lasts exactly as long as the request does. Has anyone else hit this? Has anyone shipped a smart-card-backed credential provider on iOS 27 and found a way around it? Is there any way to stop the system from claiming an attached reader while a passkey request is in flight — a setting, an Info.plist key, something on the relying party side, anything at all? We would happily take an ugly workaround at this point. And if you hit this and got nowhere either, that is useful to hear too — it would tell us this is not specific to our token. Questions Once the check has come back negative, the reader is known not to be a security key. Is there a supported way to make the agent release it at that point, or for an extension to declare that it needs exclusive access? Can this be turned off from Safari or from the relying party side? For an assertion (navigator.credentials.get): does hints: ["client-device"], or leaving usb out of transports in allowCredentials, stop the agent from claiming the reader? If so, that is a real mitigation for anyone who controls their own relying party. (authenticatorSelection.authenticatorAttachment only exists on registration options, so it is not available here.) Is TKSmartCard.beginSession() meant to block indefinitely, with no timeout and no cancellation? It bridges beginSessionWithReply:, so Swift concurrency cancellation does not reach it either. Failing with an error after a bounded wait would at least make this diagnosable instead of presenting as a hang. Filed as FB24171032 with a minimal sample project and full logs. Hardware, in case it matters: Aktiv Rutoken ECP, USB CCID. Any CCID reader without a FIDO applet should behave the same. iPhone 15 Pro on iOS 27.0 fails; iPhone 17 Pro on iOS 26.6 works, same binary and same token.
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Aug ’26
Sign in with Apple fails with AKAuthenticationError -7003 for our client ID — reproduced by App Review
Our app can no longer complete native Sign in with Apple: the system sheet appears, the user authenticates (Face ID / password succeeds), and the sheet then fails before any credential is returned to the app. Console shows AKAuthenticationError -7003 from the AppleAccount/AuthorizationServices stack. Details: App: "Antes y Después: Fotos" — bundle ID com.jpbaldi.antesydespues, live on the App Store Team ID: PZDWZHXF9V (individual membership) Implementation: ASAuthorizationController (via expo-apple-authentication), scopes full name + email; the identityToken is exchanged with our backend (Supabase). The failure happens inside the native sheet, before any token is issued. Reproducible across devices, networks and Apple IDs — and App Review reproduced it too: our build was rejected under 2.1(a) because the reviewer hit the same failure. It does not look device- or account-specific. What we've already tried, with no change: Removed and re-added the Sign in with Apple capability on the App ID in Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, regenerated provisioning profiles, rebuilt and resubmitted. Verified com.apple.developer.applesignin (Default) is present in the shipped binary's entitlements. Fresh devices, different Apple IDs, different networks. As a workaround we shipped v1.0 with Sign in with Apple disabled (email/password only), so guideline 4.8 doesn't apply — but we want to restore it. Since -7003 appears to be returned server-side for our client ID rather than by anything in the app, is there any account-side registration state for the App ID that can be checked or reset? Has anyone resolved this exact error without creating a new App ID (not viable for a shipped app)? Feedback Assistant: FB23890204 (sysdiagnose + screen recording attached) Developer Support case ref: 102944296016
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Jul ’26
Associated Domains webcredentials works with ?mode=developer but fails without it - AASA correctly configured
Hi everyone, We're migrating our iOS app from Auth0 custom scheme callbacks to HTTPS Universal URLs using ASWebAuthenticationSession. We've configured everything correctly, but webcredentials only works when using ?mode=developer suffix in our entitlements, which is not allowed for App Store submissions. The Issue Without ?mode=developer: Error Domain=com.apple.AuthenticationServices.WebAuthenticationSession Code=1 "Application with identifier com.example.myapp is not associated with domain auth.example.com. Using HTTPS callbacks requires Associated Domains using the webcredentials service type for auth.example.com." With ?mode=developer: webcredentials:auth.example.com?mode=developer Works perfectly! Questions Why does it work with ?mode=developer but not without it, even though Apple's CDN has the correct AASA? Is there a way to force iOS to re-verify associated domains without requiring users to delete and reinstall? How will this affect existing users who update the app? Will they need to reinstall? Is there a known propagation delay beyond the CDN showing correct data? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. We cannot ship to the App Store with ?mode=developer, but without it, the authentication fails. Thank you!
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Jul ’26
How to bring webauth session to front
We have an application (macOS) which opens an ASWebAuthenticationSession window to prompt the user for credentials. This works well, except for there are times when the window is opened behind other windows - and the user does not see that they are being prompted for authentication. Is there some way to force this window to be always-on-top or at the very least, to bring it to the foreground on top of other windows (including other browser windows from the same default system browser).
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Jul ’26
How can an iOS browser app request the Web Browser Public Key Credential entitlement for Passkeys?
Hello Apple Developer Team, I am developing a general-purpose web browser for iOS using WKWebView. Current status: • The app is distributed through TestFlight (Internal Testing). • The app is registered in App Store Connect. • The browser supports standard web browsing with multiple tabs and arbitrary websites. My goal is to support WebAuthn passkey authentication for websites such as Google, GitHub, Microsoft, and other websites that support passkeys. While reviewing Apple's documentation, I found: "Passkey use in web browsers" "Authenticating people by using passkeys in browser apps" These documents mention that browser apps on iOS can support passkeys using: ASAuthorizationWebBrowserPublicKeyCredentialManager and the entitlement: com.apple.developer.web-browser.public-key-credential However, I could only find a request form titled: "Request the macOS Web Browser Public Key Credential Entitlement" which specifically asks: "Is your app a web browser on macOS?" My application is an iOS web browser, not a macOS browser. In addition, I previously requested the Default Web Browser entitlement, but my request was declined. My questions are: Is there a separate application process for requesting the Web Browser Public Key Credential entitlement for an iOS browser? Is approval of the Default Web Browser entitlement required before an iOS browser can use WebAuthn passkeys? Can an iOS browser request only the Web Browser Public Key Credential entitlement without becoming the system default browser? Is there any official documentation describing the entitlement request process for iOS browser apps? I know that third-party browsers such as Aloha Browser appear to support system Passkeys on iOS, so I would like to understand the correct implementation and entitlement process for an iOS browser. Thank you very much for your guidance.
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Jul ’26
resetKeys() also resets sharedDeviceSigningKey unexpectedly
I am using ASAuthorizationProviderExtensionLoginManager.resetKeys() to generate new user-specific keys, specifically userDeviceSigningKey and userDeviceEncryptionKey. Based on the documentation, my understanding was that resetKeys() only resets keys associated with a particular user account: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationservices/asauthorizationproviderextensionloginmanager/resetkeys/ However, during testing, I observed that calling resetKeys() also resets sharedDeviceSigningKey. I had assumed that shared device keys would only be reset via resetDeviceKeys().
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Jul ’26
Unable to trigger .matchedExcludedCredentials for passkey
Hi everyone, was hoping I could get some help. Recently I've been trying to implement passkeys on my app and one of the use cases was that we don't allow users to create duplicated passkeys from the same device they are on. I passed the excludedCredentials into the registration and tried creating a passkey twice, on the 2nd time I am unable to create a passkey but instead of triggering the .matchedExcludedCredentials from the ASAuthorizationError like I hoped, I get a WKErrorDomain code 8 with the localized description At least one credential matches an entry of the excludeCredentials list in the platform attached authenticator. Been debugging but I still couldn't find the answer as to why the AS error is not triggered.
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Jun ’26
Sign in with Apple app transfer: recovering legacy users without stored old team-scoped sub
Hello, We recently transferred our iOS app to a different Apple Developer team. App Store URL: https://apps.apple.com/kr/app/id6759354260 Bundle ID: com.kimchisushi.app Our app uses Sign in with Apple. In our legacy implementation, some existing Apple login users were stored in our backend by email only. For those users, we did not store the original team-scoped Apple user identifier (sub). The app transfer has already been completed, and we are currently within the 60-day migration window. For many users, the migration path is clear: If we have the old team-scoped sub, we can generate or exchange the transfer identifier according to Apple’s migration documentation. If a user signs in after the transfer and the identity token contains transfer_sub, we may be able to use that claim to complete the migration. However, our difficult case is this: Some legacy users used Sign in with Apple with Hide My Email / Private Relay. For those users, we only have the old private relay email address in our database. We do not have their old team-scoped sub. Questions: If we do not have the old team-scoped sub, is there any Apple-supported way to recover or map those legacy users using the old private relay email address? During the 60-day migration window, if one of these users signs in again after the app transfer, will the identity token include transfer_sub even if we did not generate a transfer identifier for that user before the transfer? If the identity token includes transfer_sub, is there any Apple-supported way to correlate that transfer_sub back to the user’s old private relay email address or old app account when the old sub was never stored? If the answer is no, is the recommended recovery path to implement our own account recovery / account relinking flow for these users? We understand that the Apple user identifier (sub) should have been stored as the stable identifier, and that email should not be treated as stable. We are trying to confirm whether there is any official recovery path for the subset of legacy users where the old sub was not stored before the app transfer. Thank you.
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Jun ’26
Secure Enclave-based authentication at the login window after recent Platform SSO enhancements
With the recent Platform SSO announcements from Apple, I noticed that users can now authenticate at the macOS login window and Filevault screen using an OIDC-based web authentication flow through their IDP. My understanding was that historically, unlocking the user's keychain and establishing a login session required either: The user's local account password, or Smart card-based authentication integrated with macOS login mechanisms. Given the new Platform SSO capabilities, I am curious about the underlying authentication model and whether it introduces new possibilities for third-party developers. Specifically, is there now any supported mechanism for a third-party login or authorization solution to leverage Secure Enclave-backed credentials to establish a user session and unlock the login keychain without requiring a local password, similar to the passwordless experience enabled by Platform SSO? My use case is providing a passwordless login experience through a custom authorization plugin for organizations that may not want to deploy Platform SSO but still want users to authenticate using device-bound cryptographic credentials stored in the Secure Enclave. Are the capabilities used by Platform SSO available to third-party developers, or are they restricted to the Platform SSO framework and its associated system integrations? Any guidance on supported architectures or limitations would be appreciated.
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Jun ’26
resetKeys() also resets sharedDeviceSigningKey unexpectedly
I am using ASAuthorizationProviderExtensionLoginManager.resetKeys() to generate new user-specific keys, specifically userDeviceSigningKey and userDeviceEncryptionKey. Based on the documentation, my understanding was that resetKeys() only resets keys associated with a particular user account: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationservices/asauthorizationproviderextensionloginmanager/resetkeys/ However, during testing, I observed that calling resetKeys() also resets sharedDeviceSigningKey. I had assumed that shared device keys would only be reset via resetDeviceKeys().
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Jun ’26
Questions on Platform SSO - Password grant Type Flow Implementations
Hi Apple Community, Problem : Should be able to use my iDP password when I try to unlock my macOS local User Account.
 Password should sync across my macOS local User Account, when my User Account Password in iDP Changed
 Should have a provision to create a on-demand macOS local account with password of iDP Should be able to Create Primary Account in Automated Device Enrollment with password synced to iDP ( Simplified PSSO in Setup Assistant ) Solution : These can be solved if the Identity Provider implements Platform SSO , but not being implemented by all major Identity Providers Except major iDPs like Okta, Microsoft, Ping 
Since Platform SSO Offers the necessary framework and provision that satisfy the above needs I planned to make a open-source initiative to bridge in PSSO and Oauth ROPG to connect with Any OpenID Provider that supports Oauth ROPG 
I KNOW PSSO DOESN’T MEANT FOR THIS AND NEEDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY IDP, AND MEANINGFUL SSO TOKENS CAN BE ONLY ISSUED BY THEM TO HELP THE SSO EXTENSION 
But the native login Experience, FileVault Synchronization, Keychain Unlock everything being handled by OS in PSSO. I thought its best to go in this way The Attachment Includes the Components, Design Decisions of this Project , Questions in the PSSO Framework workflow. Including some Questions from new WWDC26 OpenID Authentication Method introduced in PlatformSSO Please help with the Questions in the Attachment and post if there is any suggestions on the workflow I described Filed Feedback with FB23065453
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Questions on Platform SSO - Password grant Type Flow Implementations
Hi Apple Community & Apple Team, 
Problem : Should be able to use my iDP password when I try to unlock my macOS local User Account.
 Password should sync across my macOS local User Account, when my User Account Password in iDP Changed
 Should have a provision to create a on-demand macOS local account with password of iDP Should be able to Create Primary Account in Automated Device Enrollment with password synced to iDP ( Simplified PSSO in Setup Assistant ) Solution : All the above Problems can be solved if the Identity Provider implements Platform SSO , but not being implemented by major Identity Providers Except Okta, Microsoft, Ping 
Since Platform SSO Offers the necessary framework and provision that satisfy the above needs I planned to make a open-source initiative to bridge in PSSO and Oauth ROPG to connect with Any OpenID Provider that supports Oauth ROPG ( Resource Owner Password Grant ) 
ITS RIGHT THAT PSSO DOESN’T MEANT FOR THIS AND NEEDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY IDENTITY PROVIDER, AND MEANINGFUL ID TOKENS CAN BE ONLY USED BY THEM TO HELP THE SSO EXTENSION 
But the native login Experience, FileVault Synchronization, Keychain Unlock everything being handled by OS in PSSO. I thought its best to go in this way The Attachment Includes the Components, Design Decisions of this Project , Questions in the PSSO Framework workflow. Including some Questions from new WWDC26 OpenID Authentication Method introduced in PlatformSSO Please help with the Questions in the Attachment and post if there is any suggestions on the workflow I described Filed a Feedback with ID FB23065453
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Jun ’26
Sign in with Apple ends unexpectedly with code 1001
We're integrating Sign in with Apple into our iOS app The Apple ID login UI appears correctly on real devices, but after tapping Continue, the system immediately stops and shows code 1001. This issue happens across multiple devices and Apple ID accounts, even with no prior login history. We’ve confirmed the following Sign in with Apple is enabled in both Developer Portal and Xcode Capabilities Automatic signing and provisioning are set correctly Device is signed into iCloud and system time is synced Performed clean build, app reinstall, and other standard debugging steps We suspect that the sign in handshake process may not be completing properly due to some kind of account or server-side restriction, and we’d appreciate any insights into this behavior.
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Jun ’26
Why can't I remove my app from AppleID?
Hello everybody, in my React Native-Expo-Firebase app, I am trying to integrate Sign in with Apple, along with the related token revocation at user deletion. I did succeed in integrating the login, and the app correctly appears in the Apple Id list (the list of apps currently logged with Apple ID). The problem is that, if I select the app and press "Interrupt Apple login usage for this app", the app simply stays there, nothing happens. If I do the same with another app, this works fine. Either if I do this via my iPhone's settings, or via https://account.apple.com/account/manage -> Sign in with Apple, I get the same result, the app cannot be removed. I hope I managed to explain my situation clearly, I'd be happy to provide more info if necessary. Thank you in advance.
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Jun ’26
Recommendation for Authentication for the Enterprise with Identity Provider.
Throughout the years I've done a few integrations at my company with an iOS Application and an identity provider. I've implemented samples with UIWebView, WKWebview, Certificate based authentication through custom URLSession implementations and lastly through ASWebAuthentication. Also I gave the SSO Extension a try, but got stuck at some point (also Apple Forum didn't give me some solution -> https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/117747) I'm having troubles digging through the Apple resources to find the best approach for big enterprises. We make use of a MDM solution, so I was hoping to find means to 'exploit it' and don't implement any custom authenticationframework anymore. Also, granting SSO between Apps and websites is what my ideal goal would be. Could you point me to some resources that can help me or give me some guidance on which of the frameworks/SDKs to use?
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