Is Apple Sign In Required if we use FB, Google, Amazon sign in?

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Created Apr ’24

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I know apple updated their policy related to sign in (see https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=f1v8pyay, "More flexibility for sign in options in apps" section), but the wording of the guidelines (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#login-services) is a bit difficult to understand:

Apps that use a third-party or social login service (such as Facebook Login, Google Sign-In, Sign in with Twitter, Sign In with LinkedIn, Login with Amazon, or WeChat Login) to set up or authenticate the user’s primary account with the app must also offer as an equivalent option another login service with the following features:

the login service limits data collection to the user’s name and email address;
the login service allows users to keep their email address private as part of setting up their account; and
the login service does not collect interactions with your app for advertising purposes without consent.

As far as I can tell, FB, Google, Amazon, etc. do not offer these protections.

Would Apple Sign In still be required in this case?

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Scott OP

Apr ’24

Nothing says you have to use Sign in with Apple specifically, though it’s quite convenient that Sign in with Apple just so happens to already satisfy those requirements. But any third party would be free to develop a new sign in option that also satisfies those requirements. Maybe one or more such options already, or will eventually, exist.

(Of course this is actually just a clever response to meddlesome governments forcing Apple to offer a more “open" platform. Now you aren’t forced to use Sign in with Apple but users still have an option for enhanced privacy.)

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