HACKER Q&A
📣 davidajackson

Mobile devs who added Apple Sign In, what conversion changes?


Curious if adding apple sign in substantially affected conversion rate for mobile apps, thanks.


  👤 shadowgoat Accepted Answer ✓
Haven’t done anything with Apple sign in, but I worked with a lot of other providers before. If you have multiple options, users might forget what service they used. This becomes an even bigger problem if the paid for a service with a different provider and can’t find their purchase. If you do use something like this, only having one provider (only Apple) makes things less confusing.

👤 laser
On one consumer iOS app with email and apple sign in as the two available options, 34% opt for apple, 66% for email. No meaningful change in conversion rate, but this generally isn't an issue 90%+. The prior arrangement wasn't just email, though, it was email or phone sign up, so take what you will.

👤 gigatexal
I’m not a dev but a consumer in this question and I’d just say a service or site that has Sign In with Apple and Apple Pay available on the web is and instant use on my end. I will continue to vote with my paltry wallet for these technologies to take off even more, especially Sign In with Apple.

I don’t want to give my actual email out. I like the relay aspect. And it should make logging in and user management and single sign on and all that much easier no?


👤 unexaminedlife
I hate technologies like this. Not because I don't think they at least contribute some benefit to end users.

I see it as oblivious executives trying to monopolize whatever they think they can monopolize.

The future is in yubikey-style authentication.


👤 steveharman
Apple Sign in to be mandatory by June 30th for certainuse cases (source: Apple WWDC update email from a few days back).

Along with a number of other enforcements.


👤 pedalpete
I'm looking at adding this into a new app I'm developing, and assumed I'd do a default apple login on IOS and google login on Android (with the option to go see more login options on other devices)

Anybody think this is a bad idea for some reason?


👤 hestefisk
I’m about to embark on a new iOS built with SwiftUI. What backend would you recommend for authentication (server side) when using Sign In with Apple? Do you all use Firebase?

👤 greggman3
I will never use the same service to sign into multiple things. It's a single point of failure. If Apple ever decides to close your account you're S.O.L.

I made the mistake once, had an account closed, got royally screwed. It wasn't Apple but it doesn't matter. I learned my lesson. Don't tie things together.

I don't follow that for everything but for anything important I do as well as anything involving money.