Apple Wrote:This is a reminder that beginning on June 15, app-specific passwords will be required to access your iCloud data using third-party apps such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or other mail, contacts, and calendar services not provided by Apple.
How will we handle this in SkySafari?
To be honest, this is the first I've heard of this. Normally Apple sends out multiple emails about changes that will affect developers. I can only assume that this change doesn't require any code changes in the apps.
It does sound like you may need to create a separate password for accessing the SkySafari iCloud data.
After some further reading I found this comment:
"Just to clarify: this only affects apps that access iCloud web services in a non-native way (web API). E.g. those mentioned: outlook, thunderbird, and similar. I'm a developer and I used to have only one such app, which has recently been updated to iCloud drive instead.
This change won't affect apps which use iCloud Drive, keychain (which is already accessible by devs btw, they just don't implement it) and apps which use the CloudKit framework. CloudKit already assigns app-specific containers to apps, while this change only affects services which want to access iCloud outside of their own space (which makes sense, if you consider the security risks)."
This makes it sound like SkySafari won't be affected at all since we use Apple's APIs for accessing iCloud Drive.
Yes, it sounds like we're good. Thanks.