Auto signin after confirm email

[cliffordh]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, users must sign in after email confirmation. It would be ideal if a user did not have to sign in after creating their account and verifying their email.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like the user to automatically be signed in after email confirmation.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I have not dug into the code to see how I might accomplish this on my own. Ideally, this should be parameterized, i.e., autoSigninAfterConfirmEmail: true.

[haverchuck]

@cliffordh - I marked this as an enhancement request. Just want to note for future consideration, however, that this flow could be awkward if user verification upon signup AND MFA are configured for a User Pool. With this scenario, an automated signin would result in the end user:

1. Receiving a text/email after they signup.
2. Confirming using the registration code.
3. Immediately receiving another text/email.

Not necessarily a giant issue (assuming these messages have good subject lines configured) but definitely something to consider.

[alpeshgaglani]

I wanted to echo same concern.. I have read several threads that have this issue. For our case, we have two customers who use phone-number-only auth (similar to WhatsApp). The first-time sign up is a critical consideration for these consumer oriented companies.
We really want to use Amplify because we love everything else about it. However, forcing the user to respond to two sms codes on first-time use is a non-starter.

Any ideas if/when this will be done?

[wyzzy]

We have a similar issue. We confirm a user sign up with an SMS and want to be able to establish a user session at that point, without an explicit sign in immediately after the sign up.

There appear to be several folks interested in this feature:

amazon-archives/amazon-cognito-identity-js#186

[Nanobrainiac]

Okay, so here we are March 4, 2019...has this feature been added yet??

This feature has been requested by users for at least a couple of years now.

[jdrydn]

I'm with @Nanobrainiac here - three plus years have gone by and the "best solution" to this currently is:

@chetanme commented on 24 Oct 2016
From the SignUp page, you already have user's username and password in the app context. You can just use those values to create a new CognitoUser and then calling authenticateUser on the user object onSuccess of the user confirmation. On authentication success, userPool.getCurrentUser should return you the logged in user.

It's also strange how poorly documented the Amazon Cognito Identity JS package is. Plenty of examples, sure, but zero documentation.