Account settings

Everything about your TACENZA Chat account is in Settings, grouped into four parts: your account, privacy and safety, preferences, and data. This page says what each section holds and where to go for more. Almost everything in Settings is stored in your encrypted vault, so the server can’t read it.

Open Settings from the navigation, or go straight to Settings › Account.

Account

Settings › Account

Your username (@name) and Edit profile. Your username can’t be changed yet: renaming comes before TACENZA Mail launches. See Changing your username.
Change password. See Password, recovery key and two-factor sign-in.
Recovery key: make a new one if you’ve lost yours or think someone has seen it.
Email and Phone: both optional. See below.
Delete account. See Deleting your account.

Settings › Plan

Your plan, what you use of it, and billing. It also shows your claim, your claim card and your invite codes. See Plans and billing.

Settings › Devices

The devices you’re signed in on, sign-in history, and Stay signed in on this device. See Sessions and devices.

Privacy and safety

Settings › Privacy Center: who sees your profile, read receipts, typing, online status, who can reach you, and blocked people. See Privacy settings.
Settings › Security Center: a checklist, two-factor sign-in, safety numbers and Log out when inactive. See Password, recovery key and two-factor sign-in.

Preferences

Settings › Notifications: see Notification settings.
Settings › Messages: Enter sends, disappearing messages for new chats, photo quality and link previews.
Settings › Appearance: Theme (Match system, Light or Dark), accent colour, density and message style.
Settings › Accessibility: text size, high contrast, reduce motion, and keyboard shortcuts.
Settings › Language: English or Dansk.

Data

Settings › Storage: how much of your plan’s storage your files use, and clearing photos held in memory on this device.
Settings › Advanced: Encrypted export, Import and diagnostics.

Encrypted export

An export is a file with your settings, bookmarks, blocked people, contacts’ pinned keys and chat preferences, sealed with a passphrase of 10 or more characters. Messages aren’t in it: they stay end-to-end encrypted on the server.

Go to Settings › Advanced.
Enter a passphrase and select Export.
Keep the file and the passphrase.

Import adds what’s missing from an export of the same account. It never replaces keys you’ve pinned, and restores settings only if Also restore settings is on.

Email and phone

Under Settings › Account you can add an email address and a phone number in the Email (optional, encrypted) and Phone (optional, encrypted) fields. Both stay in your encrypted vault, so the server can’t read them, and Tacenza never uses them for anything. They can’t be used to reset your password: only your recovery key can do that. See Getting back into your account.

Email notifications use a separate address that you add in Settings › Notifications. See Notification settings.