ACAccountStore no longer work with Twitter? (Swift, iOS 12)

Question

I have a method that allows user to follow other twitter account using twitter API, however, this method stopped working since iOS 11.

Because: Social accounts have been removed from Settings in iOS 11. Third-party apps no longer have access to those signed-in accounts. (31687059)

(In the following method, the return value "isGranted" will be false, and error code will be: error 7, from apple.com)

Is there a way to work around this?

static func followAppTwitter(_ twitterScreenName: String) {

    let accountStore = ACAccountStore()
    let twitterType = accountStore.accountType(withAccountTypeIdentifier: ACAccountTypeIdentifierTwitter)

    accountStore.requestAccessToAccounts(with: twitterType, options: nil,
        completion: { (isGranted, error) in
            guard let userAccounts = accountStore.accounts(with: twitterType),
                userAccounts.count > 0 else { return }
            guard let firstActiveTwitterAccount = userAccounts[0] as? ACAccount else { return }

            // Then do a data post to twitter API
            // ......
    })
}

I am also trying to find a good substitute.. did you end up with a decent solution? — Michael Rowe, Apr 28 '20 at 14:43
I switched over to SwifteriOS seems to be working fine for me... I store the credentials in my app space now... — Michael Rowe, Aug 02 '20 at 18:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 02 '20 at 18:51

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After searching around for a while - I have replaced my code with - https://github.com/mattdonnelly/Swifter SwifterIOS

answered Aug 02 '20 at 18:51

Michael Rowe

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Anything similar or equivalent for Objective-C? – Erika Electra Jun 10 '21 at 16:04
I’ve not looked at objective c for a while. – Michael Rowe Jun 11 '21 at 17:08

ACAccountStore no longer work with Twitter? (Swift, iOS 12)

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