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title: "Change your user preferences"
slug: "change-your-user-preferences"
updated: 2026-06-01T14:52:48Z
published: 2026-06-01T14:52:48Z
canonical: "help.quickbase.com/change-your-user-preferences"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.quickbase.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Change your user preferences

After you have [signed in](/v1/docs/sign-in-to-quickbase) to Quickbase, you can change your personal information and tell Quickbase how to display certain screen elements.

> [!NOTE]
> Note: Users control their own accounts, which means that only a user can change their own account information (for example, user name, email address). Billing Account Administrators and Application Managers DO NOT control user account information.

To change your preferences:

1. Select the user dropdown on the global bar, then select **Profile**.
2. In the **My User Preferences**section, change any of the following options:
  - Select the **New/Updated Icons** checkbox to hide the new and update flags only for you. Other Quickbase users can see the flags based on their personal settings, unless an application administrator hides the flags.
  - Select one of the **UI Spacing** options to change the spacing of form elements, and the spacing on rows in reports, search results, and the table Home page. Your choice is personal for you, and affects all your apps. The default spacing if you have not chosen one is *Regular*.

![UI Spacing options showing Regular, Compact, and Comfortable spacing settings](https://cdn.document360.io/dd260e4e-10bb-4b66-8fb3-5504c272b904/Images/Documentation/4572840700052.png)
3. In the **My User Information** section, change any of the following items:
  - **First Name**
  - **Last Name**
  - **Email Address**. Quickbase sends messages to the new email address that you enter. Learn more about [changing your email address](/v1/docs/change-your-email-address).
  - **User Name**. Create a user name when you first [register with Quickbase](/v1/docs/register-to-use-quickbase), or add/change a user name at any time.

A user name also lets you [create multiple user accounts](/v1/docs/manage-multiple-user-accounts) if you want to sign in as more than one user under the same email address.
  - [Change your password](/v1/docs/change-your-password) if your company does not use a corporate directory for signing in to Quickbase.
  - [Change your security question or answer](/v1/docs/change-your-security-question) if your account or realm requires the answer to your security question during a password reset.
  - [Manage multiple user accounts](/v1/docs/manage-multiple-user-accounts).
4. In the **My Connections** section, you can view your connections and details about the apps and tables using those connections. You can also [delete connections](/v1/docs/deleting-a-connection) that are not used by any tables.
5. Select **Save** in the Page bar to save your changes.

> [!NOTE]
> Note: To view [application tokens](/v1/docs/app-tokens), see the App properties section on the App Settings page. (App tokens are not available to accounts on the Quickbase Essential plan.)