Sign in With Google or Apple
You can now sign in to your Orbit account with Google or Apple. Fewer passwords, same account, nothing else changes.
You probably have forty-seven passwords. We’d rather Orbit not be the forty-eighth.
From today, you can sign in to your Orbit account with Google or Apple instead of an email and password. Same account, same licences, same everything — just a different way in.
How it works
On the login page you’ll now see two new buttons alongside the email field: Continue with Google and Sign in with Apple. Click either, consent on the provider’s screen, and you’re back on your Orbit account a second or two later.
If you already have an Orbit account and the Google or Apple email matches yours, we automatically link the two on your first sign-in. No merging, no duplicate accounts, nothing for you to do. Your licences, downloads, and order history stay put.
If you’re brand new, signing in with Google or Apple creates your Orbit account in one click. You can add a password later from account settings if you’d like a backup way in.
Email and password still work
Nothing changes if you already sign in the old way. Email and password is still there, still works, still recommended if you want the ability to sign in from a device where you aren’t logged into Google or Apple.
You can have all three methods enabled on the same account. Sign in however’s convenient today; use something else tomorrow.
Managing connected accounts
Under Account → Connected Accounts on the site, you can see which sign-in methods are linked to your account and add or remove them at any time. The only safety rail: if you sign up via Google or Apple and never set a password, you can’t remove the provider you signed up with — otherwise you’d lock yourself out. Set a password first, then unlink.
About Apple’s “Hide My Email”
Apple lets you sign in with a generated private relay address — something like abc123@privaterelay.appleid.com — instead of your real email. We accept those addresses as real. Any emails we send (licence keys, download links, receipts) are forwarded by Apple to the real address behind the relay.
One important caveat if you already have an Orbit account: when you pick Hide My Email, Apple never tells us your real email — only the relay address. That means we can’t tell that the Apple sign-in belongs to an existing account, and we’ll create a new one instead of linking to the one you already have.
Two ways to avoid this:
- First time you sign in with Apple, pick “Share My Email” on the Apple consent screen. Apple then sends us your real email and we automatically link to your existing Orbit account.
- Or link manually after the fact: sign in to your original account with email and password, then go to Account → Connected Accounts and click Connect next to Apple. This bypasses the email-match step and links by Apple’s stable internal ID instead.
If you’re a brand-new Orbit user, Hide My Email is totally fine — pick whatever you prefer.
Try it
Head to orbitspatial.io/account/login and use whichever button you prefer.
For a full walkthrough — first-time sign-in, linking providers to an existing account, troubleshooting — see the Signing in with Google or Apple guide in the docs.