> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://dexflip.app/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Linking Google

> Connecting a Google account for Export to Sheets, what it can reach, and unlinking

A Google link is needed only for [Export to Sheets](/docs/selling/export-to-sheets). DexFlip can reach only the folder and sheet it creates in your Drive. Nothing else in the app uses Google.

## Where to link

| Place                 | Button                  |
| --------------------- | ----------------------- |
| The last welcome page | **Link Google**         |
| Settings              | **Link Google account** |

## Linking

<Steps>
  <Step title="Tap Link Google account">
    iOS shows its own alert asking whether DexFlip may use Google's site to sign in. **Cancel** closes it. Nothing is linked and no message is shown.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Sign in on Google's page">
    DexFlip never sees your password.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Allow Drive access">
    Google asks to let DexFlip see your email address and use the Drive files it creates. **Tick the Drive permission.** Without it the link is refused with **Google didn't grant access to Drive. Link again and tick the Drive permission.**
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check the status line">
    Settings reads **Linked to Google** and your email address.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What DexFlip can reach

| Can                                                      | Cannot                                           |
| -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Create a **DexFlip** folder and the files inside it      | See, open or change any other file in your Drive |
| Read your email address, to show which account is linked | Read your mail, contacts or calendar             |
| Share its own folder as anyone with the link can view    | Share anything else                              |

The folder is shared that way so photos show inside the sheet. See the warning on [Export to Sheets](/docs/selling/export-to-sheets).

## Unlinking

**Unlink Google account** in Settings asks first. **Keep linked** changes nothing. **Unlink** forgets the link on this phone and tells Google to withdraw DexFlip's access.

**Your folder, sheet and photos stay in your Drive.** Unlinking deletes nothing there, and the folder stays shared. To stop sharing it, change the folder's sharing in Drive, or delete it.

## Notes

* The link stays on this phone. A new phone needs linking again.
* Linking a different Google account makes the next export start a new folder in that account.
* Sign-in problems are in [Troubleshooting](/docs/setup/troubleshooting).