---
title: "Settings"
description: "Manage your profile, organizations, preferences, sign-in, and API keys."
source: "Guardian Platform"
---
## About Settings

**Settings** holds your own account: who you are, how Guardian behaves in this browser, and what can act as you.

To open Settings:

1. Navigate to the application header
2. Select the profile dropdown → Select **Settings**

Each section has its own link (for example, `/settings?tab=api-keys`), so you can bookmark or share it.

To see your member page as others in your organization see it, select **Your Profile** from the same dropdown. See [Member Management](./member-management.mdx#viewing-a-member).

## Account

- **Profile** — your photo, name, and email, which come from your identity provider and are changed there (with Keycloak, select **Edit in Keycloak**) or by your administrator, and when you joined. **Identity** shows your DID. Your activity appears on your member page, under **Your Profile** in the profile dropdown.
- **Organizations** — every organization you belong to, with your roles and projects in each. The current organization is marked **Current**. Select **View Details** to see an organization's identifiers. If you belong to more than one and sign in with Auth0, select **Switch Organization** to switch. If an organization from your sign-in can't be shown, such as one you were removed from since you signed in, a warning above the list says how many, and signing in again updates the list.

![The Profile section of Settings: the user's photo, name, email, and join date, synced from the identity provider, and Identity with the user's DID.](../../../assets/settings/settings-account.png)

## Preferences

Preferences are saved in this browser only.

- **Appearance** — **Theme** (**Light**, **Dark**, or **System** to follow your operating system), **Time Zone**, and **Default View**. Dates and times show in your chosen time zone. **Default View** sets whether collection pages start as a grid or a list; narrow screens still show the grid.
- **Accessibility** — **Reduce Motion**, which stops animations, pulsing status dots, and sliding panels; **Single-Key Shortcuts**, which you can turn off for speech input or switch access, where a stray / would open search; and a list of **Keyboard Shortcuts**. If your operating system already asks for reduced motion, it is on everywhere.

## Access

- **Roles & Permissions** — the roles you hold in the current organization, where each applies, and the permissions each grants. Learn more in [Roles and Permissions](./roles-and-permissions.mdx).
- **Security** — how you signed in and when, with **Sign Out**, and a link to your identity provider's account page to change your password or two-factor authentication, where your provider has one. Under **This Browser**, select **Clear** beside **Local History** and confirm to remove the recent searches, pinned log rows, and unsent comment drafts saved in this browser. Signing out does not clear them.
- **API Keys** — generate, view, and revoke your API keys. See [API Keys](./api-keys.mdx).

![The Roles & Permissions section of Settings, listing the Organization Owner role with its 27 permissions, then the Project Owner role with the projects it applies to.](../../../assets/roles-and-permissions/settings-roles.png)

## Related

- [API Keys](./api-keys.mdx) — generate, scope, and revoke the keys listed under API Keys
- [Roles and Permissions](./roles-and-permissions.mdx) — what the roles listed under Roles & Permissions grant
- [Member Management](./member-management.mdx) — the member page you open from Your Profile
- [Activity Logs](./activity-logs.mdx) — search and export the actions taken in your organization