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# Accounts, guests and saving progress
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_How guest play, sign-in and account deletion work, and what happens to your aquarium in each._
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## Playing without an account
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Anyone can open Fishies and start playing as a guest at once, with no account needed. See [Signing in & saving progress](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/signin) for what a guest aquarium can and cannot do, and how to save it before it is lost.
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On the desktop app a guest saves with Save in your browser, which links the sign-in onto the same aquarium; see [Signing in & saving progress](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/signin).
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A guest plays under a temporary name starting with guest_. Once a sign-in is linked, the game asks you to choose your own username; nobody can pick a guest_ name, and a link to your old guest address forwards to the new one.
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## Linking a sign-in
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Once you decide to keep your aquarium, you link one of these to it from the account centre:
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- Google
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- X
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- Apple
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- Discord
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- Steam (sign-in only works once an aquarium is already linked to it)
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- a phone number
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- Game Center on the iPhone, iPad and Mac App Store apps, or Google Play Games on the Android app (both sign you in on their own)
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## The account centre
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The account centre holds your username and aquarium name, the sign-ins you have linked, your language, and the ways Fishies can reach you outside the game: reminders in Telegram, and an Email updates switch for big news that you opt in to. For reminders see [Reminders](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/notifications). On the website, open it from your name at the top: it opens right over the page you are on.
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Devices lists where your aquarium is signed in and has Sign out everywhere for a lost phone; the card Playing on another device says how to open your aquarium elsewhere. See [Lost your phone or can't sign in?](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/lost-account).
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## What is stored, and where
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Your aquarium, its fish, coins, level and decorations, lives on Fishies' own servers, on the same clock for every player. A sign-in only proves which aquarium is yours; it never creates a separate Fishies password.
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## Deleting your account
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The account centre's Delete account option removes your sign-in and its linked data for good. There is no way to undo it, so save anything you want to keep, a screenshot of your aquarium, for instance, before you do.
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If deleting takes longer than usual, the account centre says it is still finishing and completes it on its own. An account banned for abuse leaves a one-way hash of its sign-in methods for a year, so the same sign-in cannot start a new aquarium during that time.
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A guest aquarium is deleted the same way, and a guest signing out can choose Delete it instead. If you can no longer sign in, ask for the deletion on the [Delete your account](https://fishies.lol/delete-account) page: we check by email that the account is yours, then delete it.
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In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/accounts · Fishies 0.8.11
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This page is generated. Its text lives in [`locales/en-GB.json`](../../../locales/en-GB.json) under `wiki.topics.accounts`; correct it there.
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