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Page updated Feb 21, 2024

Identify user to Amazon Pinpoint

AWS will end support for Amazon Pinpoint on October 30, 2026,, and is no longer accepting any new users as of May 20 (see the linked doc). The guidance is to use AWS End User Messaging for push notifications and SMS, Amazon Simple Email Service for sending emails, Amazon Connect for campaigns, journeys, endpoints, and engagement analytics. Pinpoint recommends Amazon Kinesis for event collection and mobile analytics.

This call identifies the current user (which could be unauthenticated or authenticated) to Amazon Pinpoint. The user ID can be any string which identifies the user in the context of your application.

Get the user ID from Amplify Auth

If the user is signed in through Amplify.Auth.signIn, then you can retrieve the current user's ID as shown below:

final user = await Amplify.Auth.getCurrentUser();
final userId = user.userId

Identify the user to Amazon Pinpoint

Once you have a string that identifies the current user (either from the Auth category as shown above or through your own application logic), you can identify the user to Amazon Pinpoint with the following:

final userProfile = AWSPinpointUserProfile(
userAttributes: {
'hobbies': ['cooking', 'knitting']
},
);
await Amplify.Notifications.Push.identifyUser(
userId: userId,
userProfile: userProfile,
);