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title: Your profile and preferences
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Set up your Status profile and notifications, customize your settings and fix common issues.

## Manage your profile

- [Create and use **additional Status profiles**](./create-and-use-additional-status-profiles.md)
- [**Sign into** your Status profile on a new device](./sign-into-your-status-profile-on-a-new-device.md)
- [**View and edit** your Status profile](./view-and-edit-your-status-profile.md)
- [**Share** your Status profile](./share-your-status-profile.md)
- [**Sync** your profile across devices](./sync-your-profile-across-devices.md)
- [**Remove** a Status profile from your profile list](./remove-a-status-profile-from-your-profile-list.md)
- [**Log out** of Status](./log-out-of-status.md)
- [**Delete** your Status profile](./delete-your-status-profile.md)

## Change your settings and preferences

- [Status settings **reference**](./status-settings-reference.md)
- [Enable **rich link previews** in messages](./enable-rich-link-previews-in-messages.md)
- [Register or add your **ENS name** in Status](./register-or-add-your-ens-name-in-status.md)
- [Set the **default browser** in Status](./set-the-default-browser-in-status.md)

## Adjust your notifications

- [Your Status **notifications guide**](./your-status-notifications-guide.md)
- [Set up your **notification settings**](./set-up-your-notification-settings.md)
- [**View** notifications and updates](./view-notifications-and-updates.md)
- [**Mute** your notifications](./mute-your-notifications.md)
- [Customize **direct message** notifications](./customize-direct-message-notifications.md)
- [Configure **mentions and all other messages**](./configure-mentions-and-all-other-messages.md)
- [Customize **group chat** notifications](./customize-group-chat-notifications.md)
- [Configure **community and channel** notifications](./configure-community-and-channel-notifications.md)
- [Set up and customize **notification exceptions**](./set-up-and-customize-notification-exceptions.md)
- [Customize **membership request** notifications](./customize-membership-request-notifications.md)
- [**Reset** your notification settings](./reset-your-notification-settings.md)

## Your profile security and privacy

- [**Back up and secure** your recovery phrase](./back-up-and-secure-your-recovery-phrase.md)
- [Understand your **Status keys** and **recovery phrase**](./understand-your-status-keys-and-recovery-phrase.md)
- [**View your profile** as someone else](./view-your-profile-as-someone-else.md)
- [About changing your **password**](./about-changing-your-password.md)
- [**Remove a contact** from Status](./remove-a-contact-from-status.md)
- [Set up **biometric authentication**](./set-up-biometic-authentication.md)
- [**FAQ**: Status keys and recovery phrase](./faq-status-keys-and-recovery-phrase.md)
- [**Block or unblock** someone in Status](./block-or-unblock-someone-in-status.md)
- [**Stay anonymous** when your messages are forwarded](./stay-anonymous-when-your-messages-are-forwarded.md)
- [Set up **automatic locking** for the Status app](./set-up-automatic-locking-for-the-status-app.md)

## Troubleshooting

- [If you **lose** your Status **password** or **recovery phrase**](./if-you-lose-your-status-password-or-recovery-phrase.md)
- [**Uninstall** Status desktop](./uninstall-status-desktop.md)
- [Common issues when the **community's control node is offline**](../status-communities/common-issues-when-the-community-s-control-node-is-offline.md)

## Use your Keycard

- [Keycard: your **quick start guide**](./keycard-your-quick-start-guide.md)
- [Create or restore your Status profile **using Keycard**](./create-or-restore-your-status-profile-using-keycard.md)

## Handle your contact list and user verification

- [**Remove** a contact from Status](./remove-a-contact-from-status.md)
- [Respond to a **contact request**](./respond-to-a-contact-request.md)
- [Understand Status **profile labels**](./understand-status-profile-labels.md)
- [**Add a contact** in Status](./add-a-contact-in-status.md)