using this [patch](https://gist.github.com/vdhanan/e1768cdec753add5d64a2d4027d8f177), i cleared the access token on native and confirmed that i was logged in to identity again and received a new access token. i confirmed that if identity is unavailable, i get logged out and the alert displays explaining why i was logged out.
i also updated staging to use my local keyserver's public key for signing verification and then registered a user the old way to add the user to the reserved usernames table on staging.
then i flipped usingCommServicesAccessToken to true and confirmed that my redux store was updated with an access token and the reserved user was moved to the users table in staging DDB.