I can also revoke access at any point, even if I’ve deleted the app from my phone. Any emails from the app get forwarded to the email address attached to my Apple ID if I want them, or I can turn forwarding off. For example, in the guitar-lesson app Fretello, my username is Boots Cat and my email address is or the like. When you sign in using the Apple button, you get an option to create a disposable email address so that you never share your real email address with the app or website. If it’s a Facebook login, a site may ask for even more, including your birthday, page likes, photos, and friends list.Īpple claims that it shares as little information as possible, collecting just your username and email address, and that it does not track your activity in an app or website.

At the very least, it includes your email address, profile photo, and name. Considering how much personal information is stored on those sites, that can be a lot of data. (That link is to The New York Times, Wirecutter’s parent company.) Every time you sign in with Facebook or Google, your personal information is shared so that companies can track you anywhere else you might use it. It’s convenient to sign in with Facebook and Google, but when you do so, both those companies and the apps you sign into gobble up a ton of data about you. Instead of creating a new account for an app or a website with your email address and a password, you instead sign in using your Apple ID. Sign in with Apple is a “single sign on” (SSO) service intended to work in the same places where you’ve likely seen buttons to log in using your Facebook or Google account. Sign in with Apple makes creating new accounts faster and more private

We’ll break down how it works and highlight some of the potential issues. With the release of Apple’s new iPhone operating system, iOS 13, Apple introduced a new way to sign up for accounts in apps and websites, called “Sign in with Apple.” This new alternative sign-in option supposedly protects your privacy more than similar options from Facebook, Google, and Twitter, but it ties you even deeper into the Apple ecosystem.

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