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Steve L.
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8 years ago
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V2 web authentication - option to create an account?

In the V1 API, when using web authentication from iOS, there was an option at the bottom of the screen "New to Dropbox? Create an Account".  In the V2 web authentication this has changed to "New to D...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    8 years ago

    The account creation option was actually removed in favor of the app link in order to comply with Apple's App Store policies, unfortunately. For reference though, this behavior is controlled via the 'disable_signup' parameter on the /authorize page. It defaults to 'false', but is set to 'true' in the iOS SDKs in particular in order to prevent apps from being rejected from the App Store. 

     

    If you're using the official API v2 Objective-C SDK though, you can technically change this by doing:

     

    [DBOAuthManager sharedOAuthManager].disableSignup = false;

     

     

     

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