Anonymous account clearing

Will anonymous accounts get deleted after a while?

From what I've seen here: https://appwrite.io/docs/authentication#anonymous-user

It stated

The session has an expiration time of one year

But session doesnt mean account... Or am I wrong?

What is your use-case for anonymous session?

Just for limiting access to my database.

Anonymous is indeed an account, but with nothing to keep him except the cookie, That mean:

• Same anonymous session cannot be created in a few devices.
• You can convert them to a named account.

Because you can't identify an anonymous session (account) then the account exist only in the context which where they created. And for that the expiration time is one year

For most cases you can strict it to guests

What means guest then?

If you choose all uses, then it will be accessed for the use only in case the user logged in anonymously

Yes I have that at the moment.

You have

• Guest - anyone without a session
• Users - anyone with a session

Then anonymous is a user (with a session) and that one level above guests

But for what is "any" if everyone without a session is already "guest"?

Any is everyone yes with or without session

So if I do guest only people without a session can view it. So if they login they cant see it anymore.

Yes exactly

Okay 😄