[Wowfunhappy]

> If you signed up with your Apple on the iOS Claude app, to access your account on the computer, you have to open the passwords app and copy your random email address and paste it into the Claude website login.

Isn't this basically Apple's fault? When you signed up, Apple provided a fake email address in leu of your real one. This is great for privacy but means the service has the wrong email.

I'm sure they didn't want to provide an Apple sign in option at all, but it's required by App Store rules.

[nerdjon]

They could also just implement sign in with apple on their website, they have the ability to sign in with google so not supporting Apple is still a weird choice they are making.

Apple should not have had to require developers to have options other than Google for authentication, but clearly some companies have to be dragged kicking and screaming.

So clearly they support it, and there is no reason it should not work on the web also.

[j45]

A vendor doesn't have to bend for another.

Always best to sign in with your own email address.

[nerdjon]

There are a lot of websites that only support third party login, so that is not always an option.

They don't have to bend for another, but they made a choice to put an app on iOS. They added support for apple signin, and then for some reason did not put it on their website.

You can criticize Apple for requiring that all you want, but they clearly have support for it and are choosing to not put it on their website which is causing a worse user experience.

IF apple did not support website loggin than sure, but they do. So the ability to fix this is on Anthropic (and many other websites).

If you are already going to support third party login you should not limit it to only Google accounts and there is no reason to support Apple on iOS and not the web.

Also for the record, Apple only requires sign in with apple if you already support third party authentication. So if you are already going to support that, giving the user more choice (and making it so we are all a bit less dependent on google) is a good thing.

[j45]

No criticism from me towards apple or Anthropic. Both parties made their choice. Apple was late to the identity business and the other ships had already sailed.

Third party logins are an extension and a massive risk to any website that doesn't include email hosting.

We have see identity providers dissapear, and people may change their mind.

Easiest way is to register you rown domain and use it with an identity provider of your choice and be able to move it anywhere.

Otherwise we are a faceless citizen of a corporation that can handle access to our identity and everything attached to it without recourse or access to anyone.

[Razengan]

Bruh.

Are you seriously trying to justify offering Sign in with Google but not ALSO offer Sign in with Apple because of some contorted principle, the method which HELPS users maintain their privacy? What the actual f.

Antrhopic's UX is just trash, the worst of all the major AI products.

They have this "I'm special" syndrome where they think they can get away with doing shit weirdly and not offer basic features that everyone else does, and the reason why I never purchased any of their services again after the first month, and had to replace my payment info with a throwaway card because they wouldn't let me remove it, again unlike everyone else.

[Wowfunhappy]

I don't think it's hard to understand why a service would want to support Google as an identity provider but not Apple. Google is probably the most commonly used provider out there, at least outside of the enterprise space.

[j45]

Apple's identity service is not as common, and newer than the ones that were established before.

It's ok that Anthropic wasn't a fit for your prompting preference, it doesn't have to work for everyone, and it doesn't mean it wont' work for others. LLMs in general have proven that trying it once a few months ago can be a great way to miss changes. There's something out there for everyone.

[squeaky-clean]

> Always best to sign in with your own email address.

Using a randomly generated email per service is a huge improvement over always using the same email.

[Razengan]

> Always best to sign in with your own email address.

Oh boy

Saying this in 2026 is just.. oh man. just wow

[tstrimple]

Not really. It's the user's fault. Apple provides an option to hide your email, it's not required. It's an option that shows up when you're prompted to create an account.

[Wowfunhappy]

Oh, I agree with this.

My original thinking was that Apple makes it too easy for a general audience to hide their email without considering the implications (the service won't know your email). But of course there's a tension here, since you also want the option to be easy and accessible.

The party I do not consider at fault in this case is Anthropic.

[IcyWindows]

But Anthropic should test their app and login experiences from phones they ship to.

[Razengan]

> I'm sure they didn't want to provide an Apple sign in option at all

But they wanted to provide a Google Sign In? wth?

> This is great for privacy but means the service has the wrong email.

So harm the users to benefit the service? wtf?

I don't want to give my real email or anything to random services, specially not one like Claude where they don't even let you remove your payment info.

[Wowfunhappy]

> I don't want to give my real email or anything to random services, specially not one like Claude where they don't even let you remove your payment info.

The original complaint was:

>> If you signed up with your Apple on the iOS Claude app, to access your account on the computer, you have to open the passwords app and copy your random email address and paste it into the Claude website login.

Either you use your original email or you use a per-service email. Apple helps you do the latter, but this does come with UX tradeoffs.

Using a per-service email, then complaining that the service does not have your real email, strikes me as misguided.

[Razengan]

> but this does come with UX tradeoffs.

Only when a dumb service refuses to support Sign In with one pro-privacy provider but does for another anti-privacy one.

Anyway I've voted by having a ChatGPT/Codex subscription for 1 year and only tried Claude for 1 month. Not missing anything.