Backend › People › Sign-in shows how people sign up and sign in to your app: the ways to sign in, how long they stay signed in, and the shortest password allowed. To add sign-in to your app, see Add sign-in.

Where to find it

To open the sign-in view, go to Backend › People, and then select Sign-in. People appears when your app has sign-in, and only owners and developers can open it.

The following table describes the sections of the view.

Section	What it shows
Ways to sign in	Each way people can sign in, and whether it’s on
Accounts and sessions	The settings for the ways that are on, and how long people stay signed in
Profile fields	The details each person’s profile keeps
Who can see profiles	Who can do what with profiles

The view is read-only. To change how sign-in works, click Ask for a change at the end of the view. A new thread opens with “Change how people sign up and sign in:” in the composer for you to finish and send. The change reaches your app when you push the thread.

Ways to sign in

Ways to sign in lists the four ways to sign in, each with its state. The following table lists them.

Way	When it’s on
Email and password	People sign up with their email and a password.
Guest accounts	People look around before they sign up.
Google	Not available yet.
Apple	Not available yet.

Each way shows one of the states in the following table.

What you see	What it means
On	The way is on in your app. The line under its name describes what it does.
“Not set up” and Ask	The way is off. Ask opens a new thread with a request for that way in the composer.
“Not available yet” and Soon	Your app can’t offer this way yet.

Accounts and sessions

Accounts and sessions lists the settings for the ways to sign in that are on, and your app’s session settings. The values are your app’s own. The following table describes these settings and gives their defaults.

Setting	What it means	Default
Require email verification	Shown when Email and password is on, as On, Off or Not specified. Whatever it shows, your app sends no verification email and doesn’t require a confirmed address.	Your app’s own value
Shortest password	Shown when Email and password is on. The fewest characters a password can have. Sign-up and password resets reject a shorter password. It can be 6 to 100 characters.	Your app’s own value
Guests can sign up later	Shown when Guest accounts is on, as Yes, keeping what they did, No or Not specified. Whatever it shows, a guest who signs up becomes a new person and doesn’t keep what they did as a guest.	Your app’s own value
Stay signed in	How long a person stays signed in on a device without using the app. Each visit starts the count again.	30 days between visits
Sign in again after	How long after signing in a person has to sign in again, however often they use the app.	365 days
Devices at once	The most devices one person can be signed in on at the same time. When they sign in on one more, the device they used least recently is signed out.	Up to 25

When someone resets their password with a password-reset link, every device signed in to their account is signed out. To change the email that contains the link, see Password reset email.

Email verification and guests

Email and password sign-in sends no verification emails, so people can sign in without confirming their address. Backend › People (visible to owners and developers) lists these accounts as Unverified.

When a guest creates an account in your app, they appear in Backend › People as a new person, and their original guest row stays with the status Guest.

What isn’t available

Your app’s backend offers only Email and password and Guest accounts. These ways to sign in aren’t available:

• Google and Apple, which Ways to sign in shows with Soon.
• Phone number sign-in.