In the future, we will be removing the ability to sign in to this forum with your Apple ID or with LinkedIn. If you currently use either of these login methods, you should go to your account preferences to set a password instead, and ensure your email address is correct and not an Apple private relay email address.
If you fail to do so by the time we remove support for these login methods, you will need to reset your password with your email address on the login screen to regain access to your account.
Eventually, we may lose the ability to email Sign in with Apple users who chose to give us a private relay email address, at which point your forum account could be unrecoverable.
What was the reason for deprecating Apple sign in? I actually use this service (just not with PG) largely due to discussions from this forum, so just curious if there was some sort of development.
It’s difficult to maintain because it requires a paid Apple developer account and special requirements on the website and email server. Since we are not also iOS app developers it doesn’t make a ton of sense to me to keep it up.
Eventually, we might deprecate all SSO options besides Discourse ID, thereby outsourcing all social logins to discourse.org. That’s TBD though.
Technically, you could create a Discourse ID account with Apple, and then use that Discourse ID account to sign in here. If you don’t want to make another third-party account though I’d suggest using an email/password here and creating a Passkey.
You need a paid Apple developer account to accept logins with Apple aliases?
How is that the case? It’s like saying you require a paid Proton account to manage accounts with Proton aliases. I don’t get it. If this is true, Apple really sucks.
I never touched the Apple development part but heard quite a lot of nonsense where Apple is very hostile if you don’t do it their way.
I mean, nothing new here really. But yes, being a mobile iOS developer is a kink in its own way.
There’s a reason the DOJ/others attack Apple on their practices quite often. This just being one of those cases where it doesn’t make sense but you either comply or quit.
No, this is about Apple SSO (“Sign in with Apple”), which generates app-specific “@privaterelay.appleid.com” aliases for free. Hide my Email’s “@icloud.com” aliases are just ordinary e-mail addresses and work exactly the same as any other address, however the customer has to pay for those ($1/mo for cheapest iCloud subscription)
