I have spent an hour doing what I consider to be a thorough search of the Forum, and have searched the 2024 guide to using iNat, and nowhere can I find an answer to the question “how can someone change their username on iNat?”
I am mentoring someone who now wants to join iNat. They signed up but later realised that they did not want to have their name as their username.
They have not uploaded any records.
Can someone please tell me how this can be done - and if it can’t be done, how do they deleter their account and start again with a username that they are happy with?
you can change your user name in the Profile section of your Account Settings on the website. to get the Account Settings, mouse over on the user’s icon on the top-right of the website, and select Account Settings from the menu.
in the mobile apps, there should be a similar screen to edit your profile.
theoretically, you could delete the account and then create another, but i don’t think there’s a practical reason to do so if the person has not posted anything yet. still, if you want to go that route, there’s an option to delete the account under the Account section of the Account Settings on the website, and there’s should be a similar option in the mobile apps under account settings.
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