📄 next-auth/v3/providers/apple

File: apple.md | Updated: 11/15/2025

Source: https://next-auth.js.org/v3/providers/apple

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🎉 NextAuth.js is now part of Better Auth !

This is documentation for NextAuth.js v3, which is no longer actively maintained.

For up-to-date documentation, see the **latest version ** (v4).

Version: v3

On this page

Documentation​

https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/get-started/

Configuration​

https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/identifiers/list/serviceId

Options​

The Apple Provider comes with a set of default options:

You can override any of the options to suit your own use case.

Example​

There are two ways you can use the Sign in with Apple provider.

Dynamically generated secret​

If you use a dynamically generated secret you never have to manually update the server.

import Providers from `next-auth/providers`...providers: [  Providers.Apple({    clientId: process.env.APPLE_ID,    clientSecret: {      teamId: process.env.APPLE_TEAM_ID,      privateKey: process.env.APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY,      keyId: process.env.APPLE_KEY_ID,    }  })]...

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You can convert your Apple key to a single line to use it in an environment variable.

Mac

awk 'NF {sub(/\r/, ""); printf "%s\\n",$0;}'  AuthKey_ID.k8

Windows

 $k8file = "AuthKey_ID.k8"(Get-Content "C:\Users\$env:UserName\Downloads\${k8file}") -join "\n"

Pre-generated secret​

If you use a pre-generated secret you can avoid adding your private key as an environment variable.

import Providers from `next-auth/providers`...providers: [  Providers.Apple({    clientId: process.env.APPLE_ID,    clientSecret: process.env.APPLE_KEY_SECRET  })]...

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The TeamID is located on the top right after logging in.

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The KeyID is located after you create the Key look for before you download the k8 file.

Instructions​

Testing​

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Apple requires all sites to run HTTPS (including local development instances).

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Apple doesn't allow you to use localhost in domains or subdomains.

The following guides may be helpful:

Example server​

You will need to edit your host file and point your site at 127.0.0.1

How to edit my host file?

On Windows (Run Powershell as administrator)

Add-Content -Path C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts -Value "127.0.0.1`tdev.example.com" -Force

127.0.0.1 dev.example.com

Create certificate​

Creating a certificate for localhost is easy with openssl . Just put the following command in the terminal. The output will be two files: localhost.key and localhost.crt.

openssl req -x509 -out localhost.crt -keyout localhost.key \  -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -sha256 \  -subj '/CN=localhost' -extensions EXT -config <( \   printf "[dn]\nCN=localhost\n[req]\ndistinguished_name = dn\n[EXT]\nsubjectAltName=DNS:localhost\nkeyUsage=digitalSignature\nextendedKeyUsage=serverAuth")

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Windows

The OpenSSL executable is distributed with Git for Windows. Once installed you will find the openssl.exe file in C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/bin which you can add to the system PATH environment variable if it’s not already done.

Add environment variable OPENSSL_CONF=C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/ssl/openssl.cnf

 req -x509 -out localhost.crt -keyout localhost.key \  -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -sha256 \  -subj '/CN=localhost'

Create directory certificates and place localhost.key and localhost.crt

You can create a server.js in the root of your project and run it with node server.js to test Sign in with Apple integration locally:

const { createServer } = require("https")const { parse } = require("url")const next = require("next")const fs = require("fs")const dev = process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production"const app = next({ dev })const handle = app.getRequestHandler()const httpsOptions = {  key: fs.readFileSync("./certificates/localhost.key"),  cert: fs.readFileSync("./certificates/localhost.crt"),}app.prepare().then(() => {  createServer(httpsOptions, (req, res) => {    const parsedUrl = parse(req.url, true)    handle(req, res, parsedUrl)  }).listen(3000, (err) => {    if (err) throw err    console.log("> Ready on https://localhost:3000")  })})

Example JWT code​

If you want to pre-generate your secret, this is an example of the code you will need:

const jwt = require("jsonwebtoken")const fs = require("fs")const appleId = "myapp.example.com"const keyId = ""const teamId = ""const privateKey = fs.readFileSync("path/to/key")const secret = jwt.sign(  {    iss: teamId,    iat: Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000),    exp: Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) + 86400 * 180, // 6 months    aud: "https://appleid.apple.com",    sub: appleId,  },  privateKey,  {    algorithm: "ES256",    keyid: keyId,  })console.log(secret)