element-hq / element-hq/element-ios

Email verification error: unauthorised

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T-Defect
Dominant language
Swift
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Description

### Steps to reproduce

1. Where are you starting? What can you see? User Settings - Discovery - Share
2. What do you click?Share3. 4. More steps… Click on email link and get stuck in endless "error: unauthorised " messge. Have to kill app to get out of this.

### Outcome

#### What did you expect?

To complete email verification after clicking on the email verification link.

#### What happened instead!

One of these two error messages are produced:

error: unauthorised
error: the validation session has not been completed

Contributor guide

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the flow from User Settings - Discovery - Share and the email verification link, then trace where the iOS app handles the link and reports the unauthorised or incomplete validation-session errors. Done means the link completes email verification without leaving the app stuck in an error loop.

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Assessment

Tech stack
ios, swift
Domain
authentication, mobile-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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