Update your settings

Update your settings

Use Your Settings to change the personal details held on your profile: your profile-picture URL, username, bio, email address, and optional password. After a successful update, the app takes you to the profile for the submitted username.

Before you start

You must be signed in before you can open the settings screen. The form loads your current username, email, bio, and profile-picture URL when the screen opens. Your password is not loaded into the form.

Prerequisites

• Have an authenticated account.
• Have the new values ready for any details you want to change.

If you open the settings route while signed out, the app sends you to the sign-in route.

Open Your Settings

Open the settings screen

Prerequisites

• You are signed in.

Steps

1. Open /settings.

Result: The Your Settings screen opens with the settings form.

Review the settings fields

The settings form contains five personal details that you can review before submitting a change. The prompts appear inside the fields rather than as separate visible field labels.

None of the five fields has a required marker. Password starts empty rather than being copied from your current account.

Update your settings

Change the details you want to store, then submit the form. The update sends the username, email, bio, and profile-picture URL. It sends a password only when you enter one.

Prerequisites

• You are signed in and the settings form is open.

Steps

1. Enter the new value in the relevant field.

2. Choose the password handling that matches your change in Password:

   If you need to…	In Password
   Keep your current password	Leave the field empty.
   Change your password	Enter the new value.

3. Select Update Settings.

Result: The app clears the current error list and routes you to the profile for the submitted username.

Handle optional password and sign-in branches

The Password choice determines whether a password is included in the update. Sign-in controls whether the settings screen opens.

Prerequisites

• Decide whether you are changing the password.

Steps

1. Choose the path that matches your situation:

   If you need to…	Do this
   Keep your current password	Leave Password empty, then continue with the other settings.
   Change your password	Enter the new value in Password, then continue with the other settings.
   Open settings while signed out	Sign in when the app sends you to the sign-in route.

Result: An empty Password is omitted from the update, an entered password is included, and a signed-out attempt is sent to sign-in.

When an update goes wrong

The error list displays the values returned when an update produces errors. A network failure uses the message Unable to connect to the server.

Prerequisites

• The settings form is open.
• You have entered the values you want to submit.

Steps

1. Select Update Settings.

2. Read the message shown in the error list:

   Message	Where it appears
   A server-provided error value	The error list.
   Unable to connect to the server	The error list.

Result: The error list displays the server-provided error value or Unable to connect to the server.

Leave Settings

After you submit a successful update, the app takes you to the profile for the submitted username. You can also sign out from the settings screen.

Prerequisites

• The settings screen is open.

Steps

1. Choose the path that matches what you want to do:

   If you need to…	Select
   Continue with the updated profile	Select Update Settings, then continue from the submitted username's profile.
   End your signed-in session	Select Or click here to logout.

Result: A successful update takes you to the submitted username's profile. Logging out clears the signed-in session and takes you to home.