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by franknine 1513 days ago
Sometimes they just force you to implement feature for them, like “Sign in with Apple”

> We’ve updated the App Store Review Guidelines to provide criteria for when apps are required to use Sign in with Apple. Starting today, new apps submitted to the App Store must follow these guidelines. Existing apps and app updates must follow them by April 2020. We’ve also provided new guidelines for using Sign in with Apple on the web and other platforms.

> 4.8 Sign in with Apple 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 Sign in with Apple as an equivalent option.
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franknine 1513 days ago
And implementing Sign in with Apple in Unity is one of the worst experience in my career that I dedicated a blog post talking about:

  - Native Sign in with Apple button not working in Unity
  - Official Sign in with Apple plugin provided by Unity also not working
  - Hooked up API with help from GitHub and created Sign in with Apple button by myself ended up getting `4.0 Design` rejection without explanation
  - Trying crazily to contact Apple reviewer for weeks only to find out you have to use system font on that button
  - Unity cannot support new Thai system font after iOS 13 and they mark it won’t fix
  - Ended up building a native sample app and screenshot Sign in with Apple button from it in 12 different languages into PNGs and ask the my designer co-worker to remove background for me to import them into Unity
  - After all these the update is finally accepted by App Store
  - Casually downloaded games by other companies a week later, saw a totally malformed Sign in with Apple button not being nitpicked by reviewer and just went live like that
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bspammer 1513 days ago
Which is great for users. I seriously love Sign in with Apple because it lets you hide your email address from random app #941245.

I always wondered why so many apps support it because it seems like they'd prefer to know your real email, but now it makes sense.

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