The Plum Village App allows you to sign in to sync your favorites, playlists and (optionally) keep a history of your practice activity. Signing in is entirely optional, so you can still use the app without signing in and creating an account.
If you do choose to sign in, you can choose Sign in with Apple, Sign in with Google or Sign in with email. When you do this, we will create an account for you to store your favorites, playlists and practice activity. You can review our Privacy Policy to learn more about the data we collect and store.
If you later change your email address, it may be possible to change the email address for your account, depending on how you signed up:
- If you use Sign in with email then you can change your email address. ✅
- If you use Sign in with Google then you may be able to change the email address associated with your Google Account. 🔄 Managed via Google.
- If you use Sign in with Apple then you may be able to change the email address associated with your Apple Account. 🔄 Managed via Apple.
In cases where it is not feasible to change your email address, you can also create a new account by simply signing in with your new email address, but in this case your favorites, playlists and activity will not carry over.
Changing your email address if you use “Sign in with email”
You cannot change your email address in mobile app directly.
To change your email address:
- Visit https://web.plumvillage.app/account and choose “Sign in with email” using your old email address.
- You must still have access to the old email address in order to change to a new one – this is how we know you are the owner of the account.
- Confirm sign in via the email you receive.
- You will be taken to the My Account page.
- Next to Email, press the Edit button.
- Enter your new email address.
- Press Update Email.
- A verification link is sent to the new email address. Click the link to verify the email address change.
Changing your email address if you use “Sign in with Google”
Google offers various options to manage your email address for your Google Account, such as changing your primary email address and adding additional email addresses to your account. See Manage your email addresses in Google’s documentation.
A common misconception is that the email address for Sign in with Google must be an @gmail.com email address. In fact, you can link another third party email to your Google Account.
Changing your email address if you use “Sign in with Apple”
Apple allows you to add additional email addresses to your Apple Account or change your primary email address. See About your Apple Account email addresses for further information.
If you used Hide My Email when signing in with Apple, you will not be able to change the email address that is seen in the app (which will be a unique, random address that keeps you anonymous). However, if you link a new email address to your Apple Account you can indeed sign into Plum Village App using that new email address. You will continue to see the same @privaterelay.appleid.com email address within the app.
If you cannot change your email address via the above methods
There may be cases where you cannot change your email address. This could be because changing email for your Google Account is not supported in your region. Alternatively, you might want to switch from Sign in with Google to Sign in with Email.
Unfortunately in these cases, although you can sign in with your new email address, you will not be able to keep your favorites, playlists and activity from the old Plum Village App account.
If you would like to delete the data we have linked to the old email account, please see How to delete your Plum Village App account.
If you have any questions about any part of this guide, please contact us 🙏