Account security
How you sign in, which accounts you let sign you in, and how you change your credentials — the door to your companion and everything it remembers.
What it is
Section titled “What it is”Your weside account is that door, so the login behind it matters. You can sign in with your email address and a 6-digit code that weside emails you, or with a linked provider: Google, Microsoft, GitHub, Apple or Slack. Your account has no password, so there is none to guess or reset. Each code works once and only for a short time. If you have set up a passkey, it signs you in as well, and if you have set up an authenticator app, weside asks for its code after the email code. You control which providers are linked, and you can change your email address at any time.
Linking Slack does one extra thing: the same link connects Slack as a channel you can talk to your companion in. The other four sign you in and nothing more.
You need to be 18 to hold an account. You confirm that right after your first sign-in, alongside the terms and the privacy policy — it is a matter of being able to enter a contract, not of content. Separately, the German web app carries a machine-readable content rating of 16 under the JMStV, which youth-protection filter software reads. The two numbers answer different questions.
Why it matters to you
Section titled “Why it matters to you”Everything your companion knows about you sits behind this login. Keeping it secure isn’t paperwork, it is the difference between your companion being yours and being reachable by someone else. Because the code arrives by email, your email inbox is the key to your account — keep it secure. Linking a provider you already trust is a second way in; unlinking one when something feels wrong takes that door away.
How you use it
Section titled “How you use it”- Open the ACCOUNT panel on the Home surface and go to Sign-in & Security.
- To change your email, tap Change email and complete the verification step.
- Under Connected accounts, link another sign-in provider or unlink one you no longer want.
Limits & edge cases
Section titled “Limits & edge cases”- You cannot remove your last way in. If a provider is your only sign-in method, the app asks you to link another before you can unlink it.
- A new email address takes effect only after you verify it.
- Losing access entirely is a recovery matter, not something you can resolve from inside the app — keep at least one login path you control.
- Microsoft signs you in; it does not connect Teams. Teams links through its own handshake, separately from the sign-in provider.