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JonnyBlaze

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If you use the hide my email feature, and then the service sends you an email which you have to action to confirm your email, does that risk exposing your actual email address, or will it work with the random one Apple associates to you?
 

akash.nu

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This is great for people like us living in Asia. But I doubt I will be hiding my email lol. I don't know if it's a thing outside of Asia but LINE (and similar chat apps like WeChat and KakaoPay) are embedded now into our lives, it's not just chat apps for us, it's our payment methods when buying in stores.


LINE is very very popular in Asia like WeChat and Kakaotalk. These are just not chat apps for us, it's our way of making payments when buying at stores, and when you meet new friends, the first we ask is "what's your LINE/Kakaotalk/WeChat ID?" instead of "what's your number". Even for elder people, These are an app they use. Especially with OpenChat, we get to join group chats of people we admire or people.

Hi by Asia, which countries do you mean?! I thought we chat is particularly popular only in China and no other Asian countries. Is that what you meant?

If you use the hide my email feature, and then the service sends you an email which you have to action to confirm your email, does that risk exposing your actual email address, or will it work with the random one Apple associates to you?

Very good question. I’d like to know as well.
 

valdikor

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Hi by Asia, which countries do you mean?! I thought we chat is particularly popular only in China and no other Asian countries. Is that what you meant?

AFAIK it’s not particularly popular in (mainland) China but it’s very big in Taiwan, Japan and other countries in East and Southeast Asia.
 
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ipedro

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If you use the hide my email feature, and then the service sends you an email which you have to action to confirm your email, does that risk exposing your actual email address, or will it work with the random one Apple associates to you?

It won't expose your address if the confirmation process is you clicking a link, which is usually the case. If you somehow have to reply back to them to confirm, then yes, you'd be sending that email from your real address. But I've never seen a confirmation process like that.

Besides, one of the advantages of these log in with Facebook/Google/Apple is that there's no confirmation process because your Facebook/Google/Apple account already provides that confirmation. So it's just bad design if they try to confirm your email address.
 

uniquexoxo

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Hi by Asia, which countries do you mean?! I thought we chat is particularly popular only in China and no other Asian countries. Is that what you meant?
WeChat is accessible to any part of Asia actually. Mobile payments are big thing here where Apple Pay is not available. I guess that’s partly why ApplePay is not available here yet, because there’s already available platform for it that supports both Android and Apple users.

AFAIK it’s not particularly popular in (mainland) China but it’s very big in Taiwan, Japan and other countries in East and Southeast Asia.

ditto.
 

iOS Geek

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If you’re putting games on the list, SimCity BuildIt also has SIWA. No idea how long it’s been there. I don’t recall seeing it mentioned in any update notes in the past, but I could go check the update history!
 
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Abazigal

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Interesting. I am not seeing it on my Pinterest app

For those wondering how to enable Sign In with Apple, you need to first go into account settings, login options, then turn on the Apple switch. Then log out and log in again using Sign In with Apple. That should do the trick.
 

akash.nu

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For those wondering how to enable Sign In with Apple, you need to first go into account settings, login options, then turn on the Apple switch. Then log out and log in again using Sign In with Apple. That should do the trick.

And what if you never had an account before?!
 

Abazigal

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Yes but on the sign up page I don’t see the option for Sign In with Apple ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s there for me in the app.
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ipedro

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Delete and reinstall the app? I had to force quit the app for the option to show up.

Pinterest is definitely trying something sneaky here.

I have a version of the app that definitely had Sign In With Apple, though not on first launch, it was there on subsequent runs. It has been taken away remotely.

The fact that Pinterest can pass the App Store review proces by offering the bare minimum of Sign In With Apple requirements after tricking the reviewer into seeing the Sign In With Apple button, then pulling the feature remotely, tells me that Pinterest is doing something with ill intentions.
 
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ipedro

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I am still waiting for Feedly to have SIWA

Added to the outstanding apps.

I wonder how many of these app developers are waiting until the last possible moment to add Sign In With Apple. Many were working towards the April 30th deadline and added it before that date even though the deadline was extended. But there are still so many outstanding apps that have to add Sign In With Apple in the next 40 days. What are they waiting for? 🤷🏼‍♂️
 

ipedro

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It has appeared for me as well now.

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But not letting me hide the email address.

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Same. If I wanted to use it, I’d just use a burner email but the way in which Pinterest operates has turned me off from their platform and I’ve just deleted my old account and the app itself.
 
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akash.nu

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Same. If I wanted to use it, I’d just use a burner email but the way in which Pinterest operates has turned me off from their platform and I’ve just deleted my old account and the app itself.

I’m thinking about not bothering either.
 
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Seanm87

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Been almost a year since I saw this at WWDC and I haven’t seen a single app use it yet. Not one.
 
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