- Customizing Your Vine Profile
- Configuring Vine Settings
- Summary
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Configuring Vine Settings
There are a handful of system settings for the Vine app that you might want or need to configure at some point. They’re all accessible from the Settings page.
Enter or Change Contact Information
Vine would like to know how to contact you, via either email or phone. You don’t have to enter either piece of information, but if you want to, you can. Follow these steps:
- Tap Menu > Profile to display your profile page.
- Tap Settings to display the Settings page.
Scroll to the Account section, shown in Figure 4.4.
FIGURE 4.4 Editing your contact information.
- To enter or change your email address, tap the Email field and edit it with the onscreen keyboard.
- To enter or change your phone number, tap the Phone field and edit it with the onscreen keyboard.
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Change Your Password
You should periodically change your account password to make it harder for identity thieves to hack into your Vine account. Follow these steps:
- Tap Menu > Profile to display your profile page.
- Tap Settings to display the Settings page.
- Scroll to the Account section and tap Reset Password.
- When prompted that instructions will be sent to your email address, tap Send.
- Vine sends instructions for resetting the password to you via email. Follow these instructions to reset your password.
Protect Your Posts
By default, everyone on Vine can see the videos you upload. You can, however, limit your viewership only to those people who are following you. This is called “protecting” your posts.
To protect your posts in this fashion, follow these steps:
- Tap Menu > Profile to display your profile page.
- Tap Settings to display the Settings page.
Scroll to the Account section and tap Your Content to display the Your Content page, shown in Figure 4.5.
FIGURE 4.5 Configuring Vine content options.
- Tap “on” the Posts Are Protected switch.
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Post Sensitive Material
If you think your vines are going to contain material that may be offensive to some viewers, you may want to flag them as such. Follow these steps to tell people your account may contain sensitive material:
- Tap Menu > Profile to display your profile page.
- Tap Settings to display the Settings page.
- Scroll to the Account section and tap Your Content to display the Your Content page.
- Tap “on” the Sensitive Posts switch.
Connect to Your Twitter and Facebook Accounts
By default, your Vine account is connected to your Twitter account. If you’ve entered an email address into your contact information, you can disconnect these accounts if you like. In addition, you can connect your Vine account to your Facebook account, so that the videos you post to Vine are cross-posted to Facebook.
Follow these steps:
- Tap Menu > Profile to display your profile page.
- Tap Settings to display the Settings page.
Scroll to the Social Networks section, shown in Figure 4.6.
FIGURE 4.6 Connecting to your Twitter and Facebook accounts.
- To disconnect your Twitter account, tap Twitter. When the next panel appears, tap Disconnect Twitter.
- To connect your Facebook account, tap Facebook. If you’re currently logged into Facebook on your mobile device, Vine will connect your accounts automatically. If not, you’ll be prompted to enter your Facebook username and password.
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