1092561 - (iosfxa) [META] IOS-91 - Cloud Services - Firefox Accounts

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for iOS :: Firefox Accounts, defect, P3)

Description

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

The Firefox application on iOS must be tied to a Firefox Account. We need:
* A UI to allow logging into a Firefox Account
* A UI to manage aspects of the Firefox Sync service

Comment 1

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

https://intranet.mozilla.org/Firefox/Project105/KeyFeatures#Tied_to_a_Firefox_Account says:

"I'm prompted to create a Firefox Account, something I haven't heard of before. After creating it, I'm encouraged to sign into the same account on my desktop.

Note that the sign-up story outside of Desktop is not good at this point. We can implement signup on a non-desktop device, but the part that stings is 'go to your email to verify your account' and the things that happen after that. For example if you click the verification link in Mail.app on your iPad, there is no easy way to get back back to the P105 app where you started the signup.

Could be a reason to move signups past v1.0?

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I think "signups" should be considered secondary, perhaps even post-v1.0 since it requires more consideration and UX flow than just "sign in".

Comment 3

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

I disagree. We're tasked to growing FxA (although to me, that's besides the point). We'll be targeting existing desktop users who - quite frankly - in majority won't have an existing FxA yet. We can't leave them hanging - that will be an incredibly poor experience (even more poor than figuring out how best to 'verify your account')

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Karen Rudnitski [:kar] from comment #3)
> I disagree. We're tasked to growing FxA (although to me, that's besides the
> point). We'll be targeting existing desktop users who - quite frankly - in
> majority won't have an existing FxA yet. We can't leave them hanging - that
> will be an incredibly poor experience (even more poor than figuring out how
> best to 'verify your account')

We'll need to get the FxAccount UX people involved to help work through the challenges of "Sign Up" on iOS.