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Your account settings hold your name, photo and sign-in email, two-factor authentication, and the option to delete your account. The language is under Preferences. This page walks through each one. Billing has its own page: Start, change or cancel Pro.

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Open your account settings

Click your name at the top of the sidebar, then click Settings (or press ⇧⌘,). Settings opens on Account.
The Account settings with a round photo showing initials, a Name box, the sign-in email and a Two-factor authentication section with an Enable two-factor authentication button

Settings → Account

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Change your name and photo

  • Name: click the Name box, type, then click anywhere else. Heym saves it when you leave the box. It’s the name in the sidebar and in Heym’s greetings.
  • Photo: click the round photo (it shows your initials until you add one) and choose a JPEG, PNG, GIF or WebP image of up to 5 MB. If nothing changes after you pick an image, it’s over 5 MB or in another format: pick a smaller JPEG, PNG, GIF or WebP. Click the photo again to replace it. To remove it, click the × on its corner.
Everyone in a share sees your name and photo. Your email address is shown only to the people you invite, and to the owner of anything shared with you. In the Share window, the owner and the people they invite see each other under the name they signed up with (from Google or Apple, or typed when they first set up Heym), so changing Name here doesn’t change it there. Invitation emails do use the Name you set here. Your photo is also public: anyone who has the image’s link can open it. See Share with others.

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Change the language

  1. In Settings, click Preferences.
  2. Next to Language, choose English or Deutsch.
The Preferences settings with the Language menu open, offering English and Deutsch

Settings → Preferences with the Language menu open

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Your email address

Settings → Account shows the email you sign in with. You can’t change it in Heym. Heym doesn’t use passwords. You sign in with Continue with email (Heym emails you a sign-in link, and in the Mac app a 6-digit code you type in), Continue with Google or Continue with Apple. If you need to use a different email address, write to support@heym.app. Trouble signing in? See I can’t sign in.

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Turn on two-factor authentication

With two-factor authentication, signing in also asks for a 6-digit code from an authenticator app on your phone.
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Start the setup

In Settings → Account, click Enable two-factor authentication.
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Scan the QR code

Scan the QR code with your authenticator app. If you can’t scan it, click Can’t scan? Enter key manually and type the key into the app.
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Confirm with a code

Enter the 6-digit code the app shows, then click Verify & enable. The section now shows that two-factor authentication is enabled and offers Disable.
From then on, after you sign in Heym shows Two-factor verification and asks for the current code from your app. To turn it off, click Disable in the same section and confirm with Disable.

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Log out

Click your name at the top of the sidebar, then click Log out.

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Delete your account

Deleting your account removes your tasks, goals, habits, notes, life areas and everything else in your account. Life areas, goals and projects you shared are deleted for the people you shared them with too, including what they added. Heym waits 30 days before it deletes anything, so you can change your mind.
After the 30 days, your data is destroyed and can’t be recovered. Scheduling the deletion also cancels a monthly or yearly subscription right away.
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Open the Danger zone

In Settings → Account, scroll down and click Delete account… under Danger zone.
The Danger zone at the bottom of the Account settings, explaining the 30-day grace period, with a Delete account button
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Confirm with your email

Type the email address you sign in with, then click Schedule deletion.
The Delete your account window explaining the 30-day wait, with the account email typed into the box and the Schedule deletion button ready to click
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Confirm it's you, if Heym asks

If you signed in more than 10 minutes ago, Heym shows Confirm it’s you. Enter the 6-digit code Heym emails you, or the code from your authenticator app if two-factor authentication is on, and click Verify.
Heym emails you to confirm the deletion request. Until the deletion date, a banner at the top of Heym says Your account will be permanently deleted on that date. You can keep using Heym until then. With a monthly or yearly subscription, you’re on the Free plan from now on, so anything beyond the Free limits becomes read-only (see When you have more than Free allows). Lifetime stays until the account is deleted.

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Change your mind

Click Cancel deletion in the banner, or in Settings → Account under Danger zone. Your account and data stay as they are. Signing in alone doesn’t cancel the deletion. A monthly or yearly subscription doesn’t come back when you cancel the deletion, because it ended when you scheduled it. To get Pro again, subscribe again from the menu under your name. Lifetime isn’t affected.

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