Specify the Service ID you created in the previous section.
**Additional steps you can take to protect your account:**Verifying your account is one way to protect the security of your account, but there are other things you can do to keep your Reddit account safe as well.
username) or activity other than the fact that you’re logging in to Reddit. On the flip side, using this feature doesn't give Google or Apple any information about your Reddit account (e.g.
We won’t collect other identifiable information you may have in those accounts such as your real name, contacts, emails, or anything else. When you connect a Google or Apple ID account with your Reddit account, Reddit only collects and stores the email address and externally generated ID that Apple or Google gives us. What data and information you’re sharing with Reddit when you connect accounts: In the next couple of weeks, you’ll also be able to visit the Account Settings of your existing accounts (on desktop, mobile web, iOS, or Android) and connect to your Google account, Apple ID, or both from there. You’ll have a 30-day window to create a username, otherwise, you’ll be locked in to the randomly generated one. Eventually, if you want to comment, post, view your profile, or create a custom feed, you’ll be asked to confirm a username that’s been randomly generated for you or create your own. That’s because you just need the credentials from your connected account to log in.
If you sign up with Google or Apple, you’ll also notice that you don’t have to create a username or password. Starting tomorrow on desktop (iOS, Android, and the mobile web will be coming out in the upcoming weeks), you can create a new account and sign up with your Google account, Apple ID, or email address. We received positive feedback and engagement from initial testing, and are now making the feature more widely available during the coming weeks. This feature not only provides an alternative way for users to log in faster, but also acts as an additional security measure in the event that they need to recover an account. So, a while back we did a small test to see if we could make it easier for people to verify their accounts by letting new redditors sign up with their Google accounts or Apple IDs. If you don’t have an email address and you forget your password, you’ll get locked out of your account when you log out.īut there are a lot of people who choose not to verify their account with an email address.
As many of you know, currently on Reddit you can verify your account with an email address so that there’s a way for you to reset your password in case you forget it.