Personal Info

Overview

Manage your personal information in the Account section of your Settings dashboard. From here, you can:

  • Add a profile photo and create a username
  • Change your email address and password
  • Delete your account
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If you've had your Coil account for a while, you might see a field for your full name. This field does not appear for newer accounts.

account section of dashboard

Create or change username

Click Edit to create or change your username. Your username must contain at least 3 characters and no more than 16 characters.

Change email address

Click Change to change your email address. When changed, we'll send a verification email to the new address. You must verify your new address for the change to take effect.

Change password

Click Change to change your password. You must choose a strong password with at least 8 characters. You'll receive a message if your password isn't strong enough. To estimate password strength, we look for common names, repeating and sequential characters (e.g., 1111, abcd), keyboard patterns (e.g, qwerty) and a few other things.

Delete account

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If you're paying for a membership, deleting your account automatically cancels your membership.

Follow the instructions on our Delete Account page.