On my mobile app, I’m connected to Discourse with a secondary admin account. I’d like to log out and then log back in with my Discourse ID account, but whichever way I try and do it I keep getting logged in with the secondary account. I even removed my community from the app and added again. What a…

On the computer I can log in with either. I’ll check, but pretty sure they use two different emails. I just donc get a chance to choose to use my DiscourseID, it’s too efficient at getting me through the door :rofl: even when I say cancel cancel cancel when it offers to sign me in so I can access th…

[image] stephtara: I just donc get a chance to choose to use my DiscourseID, That’s the issue. If you want to log in with a different account, you’ll need to log out of Discourse id. I’m not sure how to do that.

But I only have one discourse ID, for the account I’m not logged in as… :woozy_face: The currently logged in account isn’t a DiscourseID

So you can’t use discourse ID to log in to the other account.

Heavens! I finally managed, but I’m not sure through what miracle. I logged out again. Asked to connect, and hit cancel on the screen where it asked to use my instance domain to connect. Got the login screen with various options like DiscourseID, and this time typed in my username and asked for an e…

On the Discourse Hub app, this is indeed a tricky workflow. We are hoping to improve it soon, but I would like to acknowledge that at the moment, this isn’t easy. First of all, the email link workflow can’t easily launch the app. The way Apple picks which app to launch from an email link is incompa…

Thanks a lot for the explanation and the acknowledgement of trickiness! So, maybe when I tried the e-mail link login, as it opened in Safari, perhaps it logged me out of the other account, which then made it possible to log into the app with the right user when I tried after that? Luckily “normal” …

Can’t log in with different account from mobile app

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 14, 2025, 10:54am 2

The accounts are matched by email address, so if guess that your discourse ID account uses the email address from your secondary admin account

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