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Changing Your Privacy Settings

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Changing Your Privacy Settings

This page walks through what the privacy controls look like on your screen — where they sit, what the tap feels like, and what changes in the app afterwards. The rules behind each one live on Profile Privacy.

1. Where the controls live

Open the side menu → Edit account. The three privacy controls aren’t all in one place — they’re spread across two sections of the account editor:

  • Privacy card — the Public / Anonymous switch.
  • Preferences card — the two toggles (Phone contacts can find me and Friends can manage my bookings).

The cards save as you tap, with a roughly 1-second delay before the change is actually saved. No save button.

2. Public or Anonymous

What you see

The Privacy card has a two-option picker at the top — Public on the left, Anonymous on the right. Underneath, two avatar previews side by side: one showing how you’ll look in Public mode (your nickname + your uploaded avatar), the other showing how you’ll look in Anonymous mode (a grey ghost silhouette with the label ANON).

Tap either word to pick that mode. The previews stay visible so you can see the before/after of the choice you’re considering.

What changes when you flip to Anonymous

  • Your name becomes “ANON” everywhere on rosters, in roll-call, in search results, in lineup previews.
  • Your avatar becomes a grey ghost.
  • Your game activity still happens normally. The rule page calls it out: this is a display change, not a block. You still appear on rosters, your bookings still register, you still get roll-called. Other players just don’t see you — they see ANON.

The host’s “no anonymous please” flag

Hosts have a separate toggle on the game editor — Allow ANONymous users — that they can switch off when creating a game. If a host has turned it off, the game is signalling “I’d prefer players showing their identity.” The exact enforcement (soft signal vs. hard block at booking) lives with the game’s other rules — see Profile Privacy for the rule-page-level statement. You won’t see this flag called out separately on the game detail page as a player; it shapes who the host lets in, not a warning next to the book button.

3. Phone contacts can find me

What you see

Inside the Preferences card, a simple on/off toggle labelled My phone contacts can find me. On by default.

What changes when you turn it off

  • You stop appearing in the Contacts tab of people who have your number saved on their phone — via contact-matching only.
  • People who find you another way (a shared game, a venue, a link, a follow) still see you as normal.
  • If you’ve already interacted with someone — they follow you, you played together — the toggle doesn’t retroactively hide you from them.

So this setting narrows one specific discovery channel: contact-matching. See Phone Contacts for the full channel.

4. Friends can manage my bookings

What you see

Same Preferences card, another simple on/off toggle: My friends can manage my bookings. On by default.

What changes when you turn it off

  • Your connections won’t see you in the “who to place” picker when they’re booking someone else into a game.
  • They can still invite you to a game the normal way, which you accept or decline yourself.
  • What’s removed is the shortcut for them to take a spot for you. See Placing Followers and Guests.

Most people leave this on. Turn it off if you don’t want the “surprise, you’re in a game” moment — the scenario behind Somebody added me to a game I don’t remember booking.

5. What you won’t see in this flow today

Worth naming:

  • No confirmation dialog on any of these. They save on tap. You can’t accidentally “commit” — but you also can’t preview an irreversible change, because none of them are irreversible.
  • No summary of “who can now see me” at the top of the Privacy card. Each toggle has its own scope, and there’s no consolidated view that says “under your current settings, here are the discovery channels you’re open to.”
  • No OS-level mirror. Privacy here is about what Furbol shows other players. If you want your phone number hidden from Furbol users on the phone number side, that’s handled by your device’s contact privacy — not here.
  • No “go invisible for 2 hours” shortcut. Privacy changes are persistent; there’s no timed hide. If you want to step back properly for a while, see I want to take a break from Furbol.