# Account & auth
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/get-started/account

Identity, sign-in, profile, security, and account lifecycle for every Aden user.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

Your Aden account is your personal identity across every team and organisation
you belong to. It holds your name, avatar, email, timezone, and security
settings: all separate from the teams you work in.

Anyone can create an account. A valid invite code skips the waitlist; otherwise
Aden staff accept you into the beta. Once you have an account you can link a
Google, Apple, or Spotify login, and optionally enable two-factor authentication.

## Using it [#using-it]

**Sign up.** Go to the register page and enter your name, email, and a
password. An invite code is optional and skips the waitlist. If you were
invited to a team, use the link your team admin sent you. It carries a one-time
token that auto-joins you after registration. Click the confirmation link sent
to your email before signing in.

**Sign in.** Use email + password, or the Apple / Google / Discord / Kakao /
Spotify tiles. Sign in with Apple also creates a new account. On iPhone and
iPad, Sign in with Apple uses the system sheet. You stay signed in until you
sign out, on desktop and mobile alike. Untick **Keep me signed in** on a
shared device to be signed out when the browser closes.

**Reset your password.** On the login page click **Forgot password**, enter
your email, and follow the link in the email that arrives.

**Find your way around.** Opening **Account** lands straight on your profile.
Everything else lives in the searchable sidebar, grouped by area (identity,
security, work, app experience), with **Ambassador & referrals** and **Delete
account** as standalone rows at the bottom.

**Everything about you is on one page.** Profile holds your details, then folds
the rest into sections you open on demand: terms you accepted, address &
location, identity documents, contracting & invoicing, and your public profile
& user card.

**Update your profile.** Go to **Account → Profile**. You can change your name,
avatar, DAW, timezone, IPI number, PRO name, publishing name (your
self-administered publisher name used on work registrations), ISNI, MLC member
number, LinkedIn, SoundBetter, custom links, and public passport visibility
there.

**Manage your public profile.** Go to **Account → Public profile** to control
your public user card. The page people reach by scanning your passport QR code
or opening your profile link. Toggle the whole profile on/off, and choose which
of your teams are listed on it (each team has a show/hide switch). Private teams
never appear on the public profile regardless of this setting. You can also open
or preview the live page from here, and from the **Public profile** button on
your dashboard. The page is also reachable from the **Public profile** entry in
the sidebar user-account dropdown. The hover-card on any teammate's avatar links
to their public page.

**Change your email.** Go to **Account → Profile** and enter a new address. A
confirmation email goes to the new address. Click the link to apply the change.

**Change your password.** Go to **Account → Password**. You must enter your
current password to confirm the change.

**Connect or remove a login method.** Go to **Account → Login methods** to
link/unlink Apple, Google, Spotify, Discord, or Kakao identities. You must
keep at least one method linked.

**Enable two-factor authentication (MFA).** Go to **Account → MFA**, scan the
QR code with an authenticator app (e.g. Google Authenticator), and enter the
one-time code to confirm. After MFA is enrolled, the app will ask for a code on
each new sign-in.

**Delete your account.** In the iOS/Android app: **Profile → Account → Delete
account**. On the website: sign in, then **Account → Delete account**. The
system checks that you have no sole-owner team memberships first. Deletion is
irreversible from the UI. If you cannot sign in, use
[https://aden.space/delete-account](https://aden.space/delete-account) or email [support@aden.space](mailto:support@aden.space).