From your Account Settings page, you can modify the default settings for your account, as well as change your account information or view log in activity. These settings apply only to your account, and can be overridden by the settings set by an enterprise account administrator.

• Account
  • General Options
  • Admin Options
  • Login and Email Addresses
  • Authentication
  • 2-Step Verification
  • Account Details
• Sharing
  • Shared Links
  • Collaborating on Content
  • Uploading Content
• Notifications
  • Email Notifications
  • General Emails and Notifications
  • App Notifications
• Security
  • Login Activity
• Profile
  
  • Viewing your Profile
• Diagnostics

Account

General Options

• Home Page - Change the default home screen of your Box account, the first page you see when you log in.
• Files and Folders per Page - Modify the default number of files and folders displayed on pages other than the All Files page.  The All Files page provides infinite scroll.
• Time Zone - Change the time zone.
• Language - Change the language used in your account.

Admin Options

Available only for the user who is the administrator for an enterprise, this contains a Business Settings button that take the admin directly to the Account & Billing section of the Admin Console, where you can purchase more seats or upgrade your account.

Login and Email Addresses

Here, you'll see your default email address, as well as any additional email addresses you've added to your account. In this section, you can update your email address. You can also link multiple email addresses to the same account in Box. Any collaboration invites that go to these secondary email addresses (or Email Aliases) will get funneled into your primary Box account. This also prevents anyone from creating a new Box account using that email address. Other users only see your primary email address and all notifications from Box continue to be sent to your primary address. You can also use the secondary email to log in if the single sign-on feature is configured to look for the secondary email instead of the primary email.

To add an email address:

• Click Add more emails.
• Enter your new email address and click the Save button.
• An email verification will be sent to the address you entered. Click the verification link in the email to confirm and add the alternate email to you account.

To make a secondary address your primary address, click Make Primary button. If you do not see this option, it's likely your enterprise has a feature enabled that prevents users from changing their primary email address. In that case, you need to reach out to your primary admin for assistance.

To remove an address, click Remove.

Authentication

To change your password, click Change Password.

You will be prompted to enter your old password before confirming your new password twice

2-Step Verification

See Multi-Factor Authentication Set Up for Your Account to learn about this feature.

Collaborating on Content

By default, your account is set to automatically accept invitations to collaborate. Uncheck the box under Incoming Invitations if you'd like to have the opportunity to accept or reject collaboration invitations.

Uploading Content (Box Accelerator)

Box Accelerator is a global data transfer network that improves the speed of your uploads. If you’re having issues with uploads, try turning this off. If your uploads seem slow, you may have a problem with your network or firewall. See Troubleshooting: Uploads for more information.

Notifications

Email Notifications

Check the boxes next to the actions for which you would like to receive email notifications. You can receive notifications for actions taken in both folders you own and folders in which you are a collaborator.

Email notifications can also be adjusted at enterprise-wide, account-wide, and folder specific levels.

• Enterprise-wide email notifications: When email notifications are applied in the "Admin Console", it will be the default for all newly created end users until the end user adjusts their settings.
• Account-wide email notifications: When email notifications are applied in the "Account Settings", it will be the default notification setting for all newly created folders in the account OR for folders that are set to "Use my default notification settings".
• End users in a Box instance can have different account wide settings by manually adjusting their email notification settings.
• Folder specific level email notifications: When email notifications are applied in the "Folder Settings", it will be the default email notifications for all files in the folder and subfolders. Please note that you cannot trigger email notifications to yourself for actions you triggered.
• Different users collaborating in a folder can set their own specific Folder level email notifications (if allowed by the folder owner).

Upon sign up for an Individual (free) Box account, the default Email Notification Settings are the following:

General Emails and Notifications

In this section, you can control the emails you will receive from Box. You can choose to receive the following email:

• Login Activity: Get notified when your account is accessed from a new device.

The default state for this setting when accounts are created is enabled.

App Notifications

In this section, you can enable receiving Box notifications in any third-party apps for which you have enabled integrations and that can receive those notifications.

Security

Login Activity

The login activity section of your Account Settings is useful for monitoring access to your Box account. You will see a list of all the applications, devices, and locations you've used to log in to Box.

Click the X next to a session to forget this mode of access. You can also click the Forget All button at the bottom of the page to forget all sessions. The next time someone tries to open this application or browser from your stolen device, they will be prompted to re-enter their Box login credentials.

Profile