Setting your preferences — Nextcloud latest User Manual latest documentation

# Setting your preferences

As a user, you can manage your personal settings.

To access your personal settings:

1. Click on your profile picture in the top, right corner of your Nextcloud instance.

   The Personal Settings Menu opens:

   Personal Settings Menu

2. Choose Settings from the drop down menu:

Note

If you are an administrator, you can also manage users and administer the server. These links do not appear to a non-admin user.

The options listed in the Personal Settings Page depend on the applications that are enabled by the administrator. Some of the features you will see include the following:

- Usage and available quota

- Manage your profile picture

- Full name (You can make this anything you want, as it is separate from your Nextcloud login name, which is unique and cannot be changed)

- Email address

- List of your Group memberships

- Change your password

- Using two-factor authentication

- Setting your preferences

- Choose the language for your Nextcloud interface

- Links to desktop and mobile apps

- Manage your Activity stream and notifications

- Default folder to save new documents to

- Your Federated sharing ID

- Social sharing links

- Nextcloud version

Note

Available options and settings depending on your administrators configuration. If you are not able to change the password or the display-name in your personal settings, please contact your administrator for help.

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