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# Your profile and preferences
**Settings → Profile** covers your own account. Everything here is yours alone, independent of which workspace you are in.
## Your details
Change your first and last name. Your email is fixed: it identifies your account.
## Your photo
Select **Upload photo** to add one. You can crop before saving.
Once a photo is set, a **Remove photo** button appears next to Upload. Removing it falls back to your initials.
## Your user ID
Beneath the photo section you will find your user ID with a copy button. Support may ask for this; it identifies your account unambiguously in a way your name does not.
## Sign-in methods
See which methods your account uses (password, Google, Microsoft) and connect additional ones so you can sign in either way.
You cannot remove your last remaining method, since that would lock you out.
### Adding Google or Microsoft
**Connect** sends you to that provider, and you come back with it added. Nothing else changes.
### Adding email and password
This one takes an extra step, because a password is not something a provider can vouch for; you have to prove you can read the mailbox first.
1. **Connect** on the Email row. Portavi emails a confirmation link to your account's address.
2. The row then shows that address and **waiting for verification**, with **Resend** if the message did not arrive and **Cancel** if you change your mind. Cancelling leaves the account exactly as it was.
3. Opening the link asks you to choose a password, and confirms the address at the same time.
The address is your account's own and cannot be changed here. This adds a way to sign in; it does not move your account to a different email.
{% hint style="info" %}
**Adding a password signs you out everywhere, including the device you are on.** That is deliberate: adding a credential is a security change, and any session opened before it should not survive it. Sign in again: with your new password, or with Google or Microsoft as before.
{% endhint %}
Only one confirmation link is live at a time. Resending replaces the previous one, so an older message stops working. Links expire an hour after they are sent.
### Removing email and password
**Disconnect** on the Email row removes both the method and the password itself, so those credentials stop working immediately. The row goes back to offering **Connect**, and your other methods are untouched.
## Changing your password
If your account has a password, you can change it here. Accounts created with Google or Microsoft only manage that through the provider.
## Preferences
**Settings → Preferences**:
* **Language**: English (US), English (UK), German, Spanish, French, or Arabic. Arabic switches the whole interface to right-to-left.
* **Getting-started checklist**: show it again after dismissing it.
Your language is yours, not the workspace's. A German speaker in a UK workspace reads German while everyone else reads English.
## Accessibility
**Settings → Accessibility**:
* **Reduce motion**: removes animations and transitions
* **Increase contrast**: strengthens contrast throughout
* **Larger text**: increases the base text size
These are per-user. Reduce motion also honours your operating system setting automatically.
## Notifications
See [Notifications](/portavi-docs/reports-and-notifications/notifications.md).
## Deleting your account
At the bottom of Settings → Profile. See [Creating your account](/portavi-docs/getting-started/creating-your-account.md#deleting-your-account) for what happens to your workspaces.
