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Your profile, language and dark mode

Your profile shows your name, picture and group, and lists the ideas you’ve contributed to. Your settings let you choose the language and switch dark mode on or off. Both are in the menu under your picture in the top right corner.

Open your profile

  1. Click your picture or initials in the top right corner.
  2. Click Profile.

Your profile shows your picture, your name, your role and your group. Below that are three tabs:

  • Contributions: ideas you’ve submitted, or that you’ve been added to as a contributor.
  • Assigned to: ideas you’ve been assigned to look after.
  • Collections: collections you can contribute to in this hive.

Some collections call ideas feedback, posts, insights, solutions or suggestions instead. They all appear here.

Change your name or picture

Who can do this: everyone, including guests.

  1. Open your profile.
  2. Click the pencil next to your name, or click your picture. The Edit Profile window opens.
  3. To add a picture, click Upload image and choose an image file of up to 5 MB. To remove it, click the ×.
  4. Change your First name or Last name. Both are required.
  5. Click Save.

Your name and picture are the same in every hive you belong to. A change in one hive shows everywhere.

If you first signed in with Google or Microsoft, your name and photo were copied from that account. Your own changes are kept. Signing in again won’t overwrite them.

Choose or change your group

Who can do this: members, Managers and Admins.

A group is usually your team, department or site. Your hive’s Admins and Managers set up the groups.

  1. Open your profile and click the pencil next to your name.
  2. Choose your group under Group, or clear it.
  3. Click Save.

Your group only applies to this hive. Some pages are shared with specific groups, so changing your group can change which pages you see.

Some hives ask you to choose a group when you first sign in. Guests can’t choose a group.

Change the language

  1. Click your picture or initials in the top right corner.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Under Language, choose English or Svenska.

The language is saved in this browser only. On another computer or phone, choose it again. The first time you open Hives, it follows your browser’s language.

Emails from Hives are always in English. Texts your Admins wrote, such as the welcome message or terms, are shown as they wrote them.

Turn on dark mode

  1. Click your picture or initials in the top right corner.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Under Appearance, switch on Dark mode.

Who can see your details

Detail Who can see it
Name, picture, role and group Every member of the hive
Email address Admins and Managers. Collection managers also see the email addresses of people involved in ideas, comments and reviews in their collections.
Your unread notifications and the date you accepted the hive’s terms You and the hive’s Admins

Other members never see your email address. Emails from Hives never show other people’s addresses either.

In collections that hide who submitted ideas, your name isn’t shown with your idea. See Hidden ideas, hidden names and anonymous collections.

Change your email address

You can’t change your email address in the app, and neither can your Admins. Email help@hives.co with your current address and the new one, and Hives will change it for you.

Delete your account

You can’t delete your account in the app. Email help@hives.co and Hives will help you.

Sign out

  1. Click your picture or initials in the top right corner.
  2. Click Sign out.

This signs you out in this browser only. See How to sign in to Hives.

Why was I asked for my name, group or to accept terms?

When you sign in, Hives may ask for things your hive needs:

  • What’s your name? appears if your account has no first or last name yet.
  • Choose a group appears if your hive asks everyone to pick a group and you don’t have one.
  • Terms appears if your hive asks people to accept its terms. Tick I approve and click Save.

These can also appear later, for example when your Admins switch on group selection. Admins can read more in Asking new members for their group and consent.