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Control Center uses a 6-digit PIN on desktop and StartOS. It stops anyone else on your computer or network from opening it.

Set your PIN

Set up your PIN screen with six empty circles

Enter 6 digits, then enter them again.

On Mac and Windows:
  1. On Set up your PIN, enter 6 digits.
  2. On Confirm your PIN, enter them again. Select Back to start over. Don’t match? You see Those PINs didn’t match. Choose your PIN again. Start from step 1.
  3. On Your PIN is set, select Show PIN or Copy PIN to save it in your password manager.
  4. Select Continue.
Your PIN is set screen with Show PIN and Copy PIN

Your PIN is set. Show or copy it before you continue.

On StartOS, the app shows Set your PIN in StartOS until you run the action.

Unlock

Enter your PIN each time you open Control Center.
Enter your PIN screen with a Forgot PIN? link

Enter your PIN.

Wrong PIN? You get 5 tries. After that, you wait 30 seconds. Each further wrong try doubles the wait, up to 1 hour. Quitting or restarting doesn’t clear the wait. Forgot PIN? still works and clears it.

When the app locks

  • You select the padlock icon at the top right.
  • You close the desktop window.
  • You reopen a closed tab, or duplicate a tab.
  • The app or server restarts. Everyone is signed out.
Reloading the page or minimizing the window does not lock it. There is no idle timeout.

Change your PIN

Open Settings → Security → Change PIN.
  1. Enter your current PIN.
  2. Choose a new PIN.
  3. Confirm your new PIN.
Select Back to go back a step. Other tabs and browsers are signed out. On StartOS, Sign out everywhere signs out every browser at once.

Forgot your PIN?

Select Forgot PIN? on the sign-in screen. Your accounts and history are kept on every platform.
Reset your PIN screen showing PIN reset. Restarting Control Center…

Reset your PIN. Your accounts stay put.

  1. Select Reset PIN.
  2. Confirm you’re an administrator.
    • Mac: the prompt says Bitcoin Control Center wants to reset its PIN. Enter an administrator’s name and password.
    • Windows: a User Account Control prompt for Windows Command Processor appears. This is expected. Select Yes, or enter an administrator’s password.
  3. You see PIN reset. Restarting Control Center…
  4. On Choose a new PIN, set a new PIN.
Cancelled the prompt? You see PIN not reset. Nothing changed.Not an administrator on this computer? Ask one to approve the prompt.Quit before you set a new PIN? Next time you see Set up your PIN. Your accounts and history are still there.
Umbrel support is coming soon. Questions? Email support@hoseki.app.