Sensitive input in public apps
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    Sensitive input in public apps

    Any sensitive information such as passwords, IDs, and API tokens are exposed in the build logs/bitrise.yml of your public apps, hence visible to anyone who has the build URL of the app. You can hide these inputs with secret environment variables (env vars) so that those are not available in build logs/bitrise.yml. To make the sensitive input fields obvious in our Workflow Editor, we’ve marked them with a yellow SENSITIVE label in steps holding sensitive input fields. These inputs must be defined with the help of secret env vars and not with env vars!

    You can hide any input of your choice with secret env vars even if the field is not labeled SENSITIVE but you must use secret env vars for fields which are by default marked as **SENSITIVE**.

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    There are two ways to define secret env vars:

    Head over to Secrets and Env Vars to find out the difference between Env Vars and Secrets!

    Set a sensitive input in a step ⚓

    1. Click the Select Secret Variable button below the input field which is marked with the yellow SENSITIVE label.

    2. In the Insert variable pop-up, browse the Choose Secret Env Var list or create a new secret env var (add the key and the value) in the Create New Secret Env Var section.

      IMPORTANT: The Expose for Pull Requests? toggle under the Value field is by default disabled and cannot be enabled with public apps to protect the secrets of your public app in the case of pull requests.

    3. Hit Add.

      The new secret env var will be available in the Choose Secret Env Var list or under the Secrets tab for your app.

      If you wish to delete your input or keep this field empty, click the red x.

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    The selected or newly created secret env var will get automatically saved into the input field of the step.

    Select secret variable

    Note that you cannot modify the input manually in the input field marked with the SENSITIVE label! Instead, click on the field and then click the Select secret variable to replace the existing input with another secret env var from the list or to create a new one in the Insert variable pop-up.