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Is it secure to use UUID as authentication?

I have an application which uses UUID as an authentication. The UUID is stored as KeyChain inside my iOS application. When I post the UUID, I use https. Is there any way to obtain the password, unless you have physical or remote access to the device? Is this approach strongly discouraged?

This question addresses the use the UUID as input in a text field, while my question is to use UUID as authentication after a login complete state. If you type it in a text field, the user has to know the UUID. (Talking about my application) First of all, the user does not know his/hers UUID. Second of all, the UUID is encrypted inside KeyChain.