Anonymous users get erased on app update

[Gabi Karasin]

Hi guys,

I use anonymous authentication for my mobile app and after update all users get assigned a new token, is this the expected behaviour?

If no, what do I need to do to make it persistent?

Thanks,

Gabi

[Arthur Thompson]

Hi Gabi,

This is expected. Anonymous Auth is not intended to be a long term form of authentication. The main usecase is allowing a user to start out anonymously then update to a long term form of auth while keeping the actions performed while anonymous.

One option would be to have some identifier for each user and use that identifier to create custom tokens and sign in the user with that custom token. That will allow you to have a user persist across app updates, uninstall/reinstalls etc.

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[Gabi Karasin]

It seems to be exactly what I need, thanks a lot Arthur!