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SAML rely on browser redirects, which does not work well in native mobile apps. However, note that many mobile apps, including the Jira Server Mobile and Confluence Server Mobile apps, are built using embedded web views. Here, SAML will work perfectly fine.

Because OIDC is a layer placed upon the OAuth framework, OpenID Connect can provide a built-in layer of authorization, which prompts a user to first consent to what the service provider can access. Even though SAML can provide consent flow, it does this through hard-coding done by the developer, instead of having it as a standard in its protocol.   The login screenshots above shows below show how such user consent is requested. First the user is has to authenticate, and then if it is their first login a consent screen is shown, requesting consent to retrieve personal user data.

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