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# Notification and account settings

Use **Settings** to decide how Creatures reaches you and to update the contact details that protect your account. Notification choices are on the **Notifications** tab; email, phone, and payment details are on **Account**.

## Choose how each update reaches you

Open your profile menu, select **Settings**, and stay on **Notifications**. Each row shows the available choices for **In-app**, **Email**, and **SMS**.

![Animal Reminders row with In-app enabled, Email on, and SMS off](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/2a8/495/332/3e88c.png?width=1760)

Turn a choice on when you want that channel. A check or x without a switch means that channel is fixed for that type of update. Text alerts begin off, and turning one on requires a verified phone number so messages cannot go to the wrong person.

You do not need to review every row on day one. Start with time-sensitive marketplace, care, transport, booking, or payment updates, then reduce lower-priority email as you learn what is useful.

## Set saved-search timing

After you save at least one search, find **Saved Searches** under **Marketplace Activity** and choose:

- **Instant** to get matching emails as they happen.
- **Daily digest** or **Weekly digest** to group emails about new matches and listing updates.
- **Off** to keep the search saved without alerts.

![Saved Searches row with In-app and Email on, SMS off, and Daily digest selected](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/ded/99f/883/cb0aa.png?width=1760)

When **Instant**, **Daily digest**, or **Weekly digest** is selected, emails about recent sales and stewardship opportunities still arrive right away if **Email** is turned on for **Saved Searches**. **Off** stops those alerts too. This setting does not change alerts for listings on your watchlist or individual **Alert me if price drops** subscriptions.

## Update your email or phone

Open the **Account** tab. To change your email, find the **Email** row and enter the new address.

![Email settings with New email, code delivery, Send verification codes, and Verified status](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/512/4fa/3ca/003df.png?width=1760)

To change your phone number, use the **Phone** row and enter the new number.

![Phone settings with New phone, code delivery, Send verification codes, and Verified status](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/1e3/b2e/3e3/7908e.png?width=1760)

For either change, select **Send verification codes**. Creatures sends one code to a contact already verified on the account and another to the new contact. Enter both codes to finish the change.

The codes expire after ten minutes. If you do not yet have a verified contact that can receive the first code, the row explains whether to verify a phone number first or contact support.

The Account tab can also show your saved auction card. Creatures uses this card for authorization holds when you place future bids. Updating or saving it does not pay for an auction win or charge the card by itself.

### Related information

- [Creating your account and signing in](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/creating-your-account-and-signing-in-1a6d30c/)
- [Your home screen and getting started](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/your-home-screen-and-getting-started-1pvqu49/)