How to edit Alternative ID

In this article, you will learn how to change your Alternative ID. If you have not set it up yet, check out our tutorial on how to get the Alternative ID.

Here are the topics we will cover:

• Edit your Alt persona on browser extension
• Edit your Alt persona on webapp
• Edit your Alt email on browser extension
• Edit your Alt email on webapp

Edit your persona on browser extension

1. Open the Surfshark browser extension, click on the Alternative ID tab, and click on the pencil icon next to Alt persona.
   
    
2. Select your Gender, Age, Country, State, and click Confirm.
   
     
3. Tick the box Yes, I want to change my Alt persona and click Confirm.
   
   

Edit your Alt persona on webapp

1. In your Surfshark account, go to the Alternative ID tab, scroll down and click Change next to Alt persona.
   
    
2. Select your preferred details, and click Confirm.
   
   
   
3. Tick the box Yes, I want to create a new one and click Confirm.
   
   

Edit your Alt email on browser extension

Once you generate a new Alternative email, the old one will not be accessible anymore. We highly recommend not using Alt email on accounts you constantly need, as generating a new Alt email will result in losing these accounts since the email will not be active anymore. 

1. Open the Surfshark browser extension, click on the Alternative ID tab, and click on the pencil icon next to Alt email.
   
    
2. In the next window, you will be introduced with your alternative email. You can either keep the generated one or regenerate a different one. Once you are happy with your Alt email, click Confirm.
   
    
3. Tick the box Yes, I want to change my Alt email and click Confirm.
   

Edit your Alt email on webapp

Once you generate a new Alternative email, the old one will not be accessible anymore. We highly recommend not using Alt email on accounts you constantly need, as generating a new Alt email will result in losing these accounts since the email will not be active anymore. 

1. In your account on the Surfshark website, go to the Alternative ID tab, and click Manage under Alt email.
   
    
2. Here, you can either keep the generated one or regenerate a different one. You can customize your Alt email's generation by selecting Edit manually. Besides that, you can also Pause the email's activity (the email will no longer forward any incoming emails to your linked email's inbox) or Delete it. You can do the same for any of the Alt emails in use. Once you are happy with the changes made, click Confirm changes.
   
   
   
3. If you have Regenerated the Alt email, you will get a confirmation box. Tick Yes, I want to create a new one and click Create.
   

You may also be interested in:

1. What is Alternative ID?
2. How to get Alternative ID
3. How to use Alternative ID