Settings

Settings is where you manage your account: your data, your security, and your privacy.

Where Settings is

Open the menu under your picture, top right, and go to Settings. It's organized into tabs. This guide covers the account ones: My data, Security and Privacy, plus the language, which lives under Appearance. Study preferences, Dashboard and Accessibility have their own guides.

Medkit's language

You can change Medkit's language from Settings › Appearance. The first time, it's picked based on your browser's language. You can also change it from the footer of the home page, for when you haven't signed in yet.

From Settings it applies when you press Save changes, along with the rest of the tab. From the footer it changes instantly. Either way it's stored on your account: if you sign in from your phone or another computer, Medkit opens in the language you chose.

The language changes Medkit's own text, not the content of your cards. What you wrote stays exactly as it is, in the language you wrote it in.

Your data

In Settings › My data you change your visible information. Each piece is saved separately, with its own button:

Profile picture: the image shown on your profile, on the ranking, and next to your comments.
First and last name: optional. If you fill them in, they appear below your username. They're for display only, so no confirmation is asked to change them.
Username: your unique identifier. It's part of your profile's address, so if you change it, any link to your profile you shared before stops working and you have to share the new one.
Email: the address you sign in with and where account notices go. Changing it has an extra step on purpose: when you save, your email hasn't changed yet. A link arrives at the new address and the change only takes effect when you open it. That way, if you mistyped it, the change never takes effect and your account keeps the email it always had. In the meantime you'll see a notice with the pending change. When the change takes effect, we notify the previous address: that's how you find out if it wasn't you.

Changing your username or your email are sensitive actions, so first you have to confirm it's you. If your account signs in with Google and has no password, instead of the password field you'll see Verify with Google: it takes you to pick your account and you come back to Medkit with your identity verified. Whatever you typed isn't lost along the way.

Verifying your email

When you create your account, an email arrives with a link to verify your address. It's required: until you open it, Medkit keeps you on the verification screen and you can't study. Verifying confirms the address is yours, which is how you recover the account if you lose access.

If you find the email, tap the link and your account is verified. It expires in 1 hour, and you can open it on your phone even if you signed up on your computer: that screen updates on its own.
If it didn't arrive (check spam), resend the link from that same screen.

If you mistyped the email you won't be able to get in or fix it from the inside: the way out is to create the account again with the right address.

Signing in with Google

From the sign-in screen you can use Continue with Google instead of typing a username and password. If it's your first time, the account is created instantly with your Google account details, and since Google already confirmed your address, your email is verified from the start (you skip the verification step).

If your Google account's email already had a Medkit account (created with a password), Google links to that same account instead of creating a new one. You land in the same place as always, with your decks and your progress intact.

An account created with Google has no password. If you want to also be able to sign in with an email and password, you can set one from Settings › Security with Set a password: a link arrives by email for you to choose it. After that you'll be able to sign in both ways.

Without a password you can still do everything. On sensitive actions (changing your username or email, clearing your history, deleting your account), where an account with a password asks for the password, yours offers Verify with Google. Only the same Google account you sign in to Medkit with counts: picking a different one doesn't unlock anything.

Your password

Your password needs 8 characters or more, with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, and a number. It also can't be your username or one of the most-tried ones, like Password1.

The password is changed in Settings › Security. The current password isn't asked for: a link arrives by email for you to choose the new one. The link expires in 1 hour.

When you choose the new password, on that device you stay signed in and go straight to your dashboard. On your other devices the session is closed, so you'll have to sign in again with the new password. That's on purpose: if someone else had your account open, they're locked out. You also get an email about the change: if it wasn't you, that's how you find out.

If you can't sign in, use Forgot your password? on the sign-in screen: the same link arrives without needing to be signed in.

If you get the password wrong many times in a row, the sign-in screen will ask you to wait a few minutes before trying again. It's the protection against someone trying to guess passwords by brute force. It's not an account lock: it clears on its own, and as soon as you sign in correctly the counter resets. If the wait shows up without you having been trying to sign in, that's a sign someone else was: change your password just in case.

Sign out other sessions

In Settings › Security, Sign out other sessions closes your session on every other device you signed in from. This device stays open.

Changing your password already closes the other sessions on its own. This button is for when you want to close them without changing anything else.

Privacy and blocked users

In Settings › Privacy you switch your profile between public and private, and you see the list of people you blocked and you can unblock them right from there. While someone is blocked, they can't follow you or comment on your profile, and neither can you on theirs. How to block someone is in Profile and community.

Clearing your study history

Under Security you can also clear your study history. This resets the algorithm's progress on all your cards: it forgets how well you knew each one and everything starts over as new. Your password is asked for first (or verifying with Google, if your account has no password).

Your decks and cards are not deleted, only their review progress is reset. It can't be undone.

Deleting your account

If you want to leave, Delete account is under Security. Since it's permanent, the button deletes nothing: it starts a two-step process that also requires you to get into your email.

You confirm it's you with your password (or by verifying with Google, if your account has no password) and by typing your username. The button only becomes available with both.
You open the link that arrives by email. That's where the account is deleted, and not before. The link expires in 1 hour.

As long as you don't open that link, your account stays intact and you can keep using it normally. If you changed your mind, ignore the email. And if an email arrives that you didn't request, ignore it too: no one can delete your account without getting into your email. Just in case, change your password.

It's permanent

Deleting your account permanently removes your decks, your cards, your progress, your profile, and your comments. There's no trash and no way to recover it. If you only want to stop for a while, not studying is enough: your content stays where it is.

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