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title: Sign in and login methods
slug: sign-in-and-login-methods
excerpt: One User, as many ways in as you need. Connecting Google never makes a second account.
updated: 2026-08-24T00:00:00.000Z
canonical: https://www.useshutterstyle.com/help/sign-in-and-login-methods
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# Sign in and login methods

Your style guides, Closet, billing, and Share link belong to one User. A login method is just how you get in — email and password, Google, Apple, or Facebook. You can have several. Connecting another one never creates a second User.

*Email and password, Google, Apple, or Facebook. Several ways in — still one photographer.*

## Primary email

The address on the account is the primary email. That's the mailbox we use, the address for password sign-in, and the address for password reset.

A Google, Apple, or Facebook inbox isn't a second email unless it *is* that primary address.

You'll verify that mailbox after sign-up. Until you do, we'll send you to verify before the rest of the app opens.

## Connect another login

From Profile, connect Google, Apple, or Facebook. Same-email Google on the sign-in page can also attach to an existing User — you signed up with email, later you tap Google with that same inbox, and you land on the same account.

Connecting a Google (or Apple, or Facebook) that already belongs to a *different* User is refused. We won't silently switch you.

You can disconnect a login method only when another one remains, so you can't lock yourself out.

## Password

If you signed up with Google only, you can set a password on the primary email from Profile. That doesn't change the mailbox.

Forgot the password? Use the reset link on the sign-in page. It emails the primary email.

## Two accounts

If you signed in with a personal Gmail and later created a second User with the studio address, those are two Users. We don't merge them. Style guides, Polar, Closet, and referrals can't fuse safely.

[Email us](/support) and we'll help you pick which User to keep and how to move forward.

Changing the primary email isn't self-serve yet. Email us if you need that.