All editions - saved authorizations, unused credentials, secure sensitive screens, show detailed errors and the diagnostic report are in Standard, Lite, Photos and Legacy; watch log reports need Standard or noLegal with Wear Companion
Privacy, Saved Sign-ins and Error Reports - Staying in Control and Reporting Problems Well
Review and clear saved sign-ins and unused network credentials, keep password screens out of the Recents preview, read a masked diagnostic report before you ask for help, and send a crash report - automatically after a restart, by hand from any error dialog, or one that arrived from your watch. This page covers all of it, from Settings, General.
Why You'll Love This
A phone remembers more than you'd think on your own behalf - the sites it kept you signed into, the network passwords a deleted resource left behind, the exact reason the last screen crashed. This page is about staying on top of that: seeing who's still signed in and clearing what's gone stale, keeping a password field off the Recents preview, and sending a report that actually helps - without digging through logs by hand.
- FastMediaSorter, any edition, with Settings open. See Finding your way around Settings if this is your first visit.
You'd have to enter that password or key again to reconnect. The confirmation lists every entry by address, port and user name first, so you can check before you commit.
Review your saved sign-ins, and clear credentials nothing uses any more
In Settings, General, expand Authorization and accounts. Tap Saved authorizations to open the list of sign-in sessions the in-app web browser keeps when it auto-downloads from a site that needs you signed in - review them, and remove the ones you no longer need.
Unused credentials sits right beside it, but only once it has something to show: a saved network password or key that belongs to no resource any more, once it has sat unused past the grace period, is counted here - the row reads, for example, "Unused credentials - 12." Tap it and you get a full list by address, port and user name, never the password, before anything is removed.
Settings, General tab, Authorization and accounts section expanded, Saved authorizations row and Unused credentials button visible.
Keep passwords off the Recents preview
Secure sensitive screens, in Settings, General, blocks screenshots and the Recents app-switcher preview, but only on the screens that could actually show a password - adding or editing an SMB or SFTP/FTP resource, the credentials editor in Settings, the sign-in web view and the credential QR code. Everywhere else - picking a resource type, browsing a local or cloud folder - stays screenshotable as usual.
Settings, General tab, Secure sensitive screens row with its summary text, toggle on.
Ask for the technical detail behind an error
Turn on Show detailed errors, in Settings, General, and an error dialog stops summarizing - it shows the technical codes and context behind the message instead of the plain-language version. Leave it off for the friendlier message day to day, and switch it on when you need to describe a problem precisely, for example right before reporting it.
Settings, General tab, Show detailed errors row, toggle highlighted.
Pull a diagnostic report before you ask for help
About system, in Settings, General, under Debug logs and test tools, gathers a masked system report you can read right there in the dialog - version and device details, without the values that could identify or locate you. Tap Copy full report to copy that masked version; if whoever is helping you genuinely needs the sensitive values too - the signature hash, local addresses, mount paths - confirming the follow-up prompt copies the unmasked report instead.
About system dialog open with the masked report visible and the reveal confirmation dialog layered on top.
Send a crash report, automatically or on your own terms
If the app closes unexpectedly, the next launch offers to send one: "Send crash report? The app closed unexpectedly last time. Send a crash report with the app log to the author?" Say yes and your mail app opens with the details and the log already attached - if nothing on the device can send mail, the report simply stays saved locally instead of the offer going nowhere.
You don't have to wait for a crash to do the same thing: whenever an error dialog is showing a real exception rather than just a message, its Email crash report to author button sends the same package on demand.
Send crash report dialog shown on app launch following a previous crash.
A watch's log report travels with the phone's own logs
*Standard and noLegal editions, with Wear Companion.* A log report your paired watch sends over lands beside the phone's own logs, and it stays reachable even after you dismiss its arrival notification: both Share Debug Logs and Save Debug Logs, in Settings, General, Debug logs and test tools, fold it into the archive they produce.
Settings, General tab, Debug logs and test tools section, a watch-originated log report included alongside the phone's own logs.
What You Get
You know who's still signed in and what's gone stale, password screens stay out of the Recents preview, a diagnostic report is one tap away before you ask for help, and a crash report reaches the author - automatically after a restart or by hand from any error dialog, watch logs included.
Tips and Troubleshooting
- Not sure which group a setting lives in? The search overlay in Finding your way around Settings finds any of these by keyword.
- Backing up more than one report? Backing up and syncing your device covers exporting the whole settings picture, not just a single diagnostic.
- Navigating this page with a keyboard, D-pad or remote? See Controls and key remapping.