One of the most annoying things when you install a new Google app in iOS is that you have to sign in. If you install Gmail, Google+, YouTube, Chrome and Google Maps, you'll have to enter your email address and password 5 times. Android's account manager solves this issue.
Somehow Google managed to bring shared accounts to iOS, although it's not exactly clear how. The latest version of the YouTube app and the new AdSense app bring the following features:
- support for multiple Google accounts
- quickly switching between accounts without entering your password
- the accounts are shared between Google apps.
If you enter the credentials of a Google account in the YouTube app and then open the AdSense app, you'll find the new account and you can sign in without entering the password. If you remove an account, it will be removed from the other Google apps that support this feature. I assume that most Google apps for iOS will be updated to use this brilliant feature.
I don't know how Google managed to add this feature, so let's hope that it doesn't use a flaw in iOS to bypass sandboxing. I tested it and the shared accounts features works in iOS 6 and iOS 7 (beta).
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