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Furbol — How It Works

The Account Editor

The Account Editor

The account editor is where you change everything about yourself on Furbol — your nickname, your avatar, the optional profile details other players see, your privacy switches, your notification toggles, your social links. It’s also where the last-resort buttons live: deactivate your account, delete it, download your data, log out.

You reach it by tapping Edit account in the side menu. It’s one long scrolling screen of cards. There’s no Save button anywhere — every change is live as soon as you make it. (Phone number is the one exception; see below.)

What’s on it

Scroll down and you pass, roughly in this order:

  • Language — which language the app talks to you in. See Language & Currency.
  • Location — your home city. Furbol uses it to rank games by distance and to pick the default currency you see. For the full flow of changing it, see I want to change my home city.
  • Phone number — your verified phone. Changing it kicks off an SMS-verification step; see below.
  • Nickname — the name everyone else sees next to your avatar. Rules on Nickname.
  • Avatar — the photo on your profile circle. Pick one from your camera roll or take a new one.
  • Birthday, Gender, Nationality (a two-letter country code like IT, BR, FR…), Height (centimetres, whole numbers) — all optional details shown on your profile. Hosts can filter their games by age, which keys off your birthday.
  • Preferred roles — pick any of striker, midfield, defender, goalkeeper, as many as you actually play. Shown on your profile and feeds the role filter in Finding Games.
  • Privacy — the public / anonymous switch, with a side-by-side preview showing what both look like to other players. Full rules on Profile Privacy.
  • Socials — external links (Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp, a phone number for SMS, or any URL). See Social links below for the full rules.
  • Preferences — two non-privacy-but-privacy-adjacent toggles: friends can manage my bookings, phone contacts can find me. Both live under Profile Privacy.
  • Notifications — a single big off-switch at the top, plus fine-grained toggles by topic underneath. Full rules on Notification Preferences.
  • Claimed history — one button that opens the claim review dialog. Useful when you’ve got pre-registrations waiting for your yes or no, or want to take back a yes you gave earlier.
  • Deactivate account or Activate account — toggles between active and paused, depending on which state you’re in. Reversible.
  • Delete account — one-way.
  • Download data — saves your whole profile as a text file called furbol_profile_data.txt and opens it in your phone’s default text viewer. Handy as a local backup before deleting.
  • Log out — signs you out of this device, nothing more.

Changes save as you go

Every field auto-saves the moment you edit it. You can close the editor at any point and whatever you changed is already in. The one exception is the phone number — that one only finalises once you’ve typed the SMS code.

Changing your phone number

Typing a new number in the phone field kicks off a short verification:

  1. Furbol texts a 6-digit code to the new number.
  2. A Verification code field appears right below the phone field.
  3. You type the code in. Once it’s accepted, the new number is your phone on Furbol.

If you close the editor before entering the code, the change just waits for you — the code field is still there next time you open the editor, and closing doesn’t invalidate the SMS that already arrived.

Your phone number is how Furbol recognises you across devices. Changing it doesn’t split your account or reset any of your history — same account, same everything, new number.

The Socials card is a list of ways other players can reach you off Furbol. You can add as many as you like, and they show up on your public profile as tappable icons.

What you can add

Furbol doesn’t have a fixed list of “supported” services. The field accepts anything that’s either:

  • A phone number in international format, starting with + (e.g. +39 333 1234567). Tapping it on someone’s profile opens their phone’s dialler.
  • A URL starting with http:// or https:// — Instagram, Telegram (https://t.me/...), WhatsApp (https://wa.me/...), a personal website, LinkedIn, anything with a valid web address. Tapping opens the link in the phone’s browser, which will usually hand off into the Instagram / Telegram / WhatsApp app if it’s installed.

Furbol figures out the platform from the URL itself — instagram.com shows an Instagram icon, t.me shows Telegram, wa.me shows WhatsApp, anything else shows with the site’s domain as the label. You don’t pick the platform from a dropdown.

Adding and removing

Each link you’ve added sits as its own small card with the platform icon, the value, and a Delete button. Below the list, a single input row lets you paste a new link; Furbol validates it (it has to be a real URL or a valid phone number) and saves immediately if the check passes. Invalid entries show a message and don’t save.

Your social links are part of your public profile — the same profile other players see when they tap your avatar in a game, on a followers list, or in the home screen. They show as a small icon cluster in the profile header.

If you’ve switched your profile to anonymous (see Profile Privacy), your links aren’t shown to players you haven’t actively connected with. And of course, the socials card on the editor itself is only ever visible to you.

The link opens outside Furbol. Phone numbers open the phone’s dialler with your number pre-filled. URLs open in the system browser (which usually routes straight into the native app for Instagram / WhatsApp / Telegram if installed). Furbol doesn’t sit in the middle — once they tap, they’re out of the app and on your chosen channel.

The serious buttons at the bottom

Each of the last three actions asks you to confirm first:

  • Deactivate — one quick confirm. Reversible — you activate again whenever you want.
  • Delete — a dialog with a clear warning. Basically one-way — once you confirm, you can’t sign back in.
  • Log out — one confirm, then you’re signed out of this device. Doesn’t affect your account in any other way.

Download data doesn’t confirm — it just fetches your profile as a text file and opens it.

What’s not in the account editor

  • Wallet operations (top-up, cash-out, balance detail) — those live on the wallet screen. See The Wallet.
  • Blacklists — managed per-item from the person, venue, host, or game you want to blacklist, not from a central list. See Blacklisting.
  • Game invitations you’ve sent — per game, from the game’s settings.
  • Your stats and history — read-only on your profile.