Plenty of us live with two Google accounts: one for work and one for everything else. Maybe your team's docs belong to one and your own photo library to the other. He.art and Heart Photos let you keep both signed in at once, the way Google does, and move between them without signing out and back in.
It all goes through one address, accounts.he.art, where every one of our sites signs you in. Here is how to use it.
Add a second account
- In He.art, press your name at the foot of the sidebar to open your account menu. On Heart Photos, press your avatar.
- Choose Add another account.
- Google's sign-in opens. Pick the other account (or sign in to it), and you land back on the page you were on, now as that account.
The first account stays signed in on this browser. You can keep up to ten accounts here at a time, and each one stays signed in for 30 days after it last signed in, just as a single account always has.
Switch in one click
Once there is more than one, your account menu lists the others, each with its face and name. Press one and you are that account on the same page, with no Google chooser in between. Switching never hands one account's session to another: the site asks accounts.he.art afresh for exactly the account you picked, and only if this browser already holds it.
It works the same on He.art, on Heart Photos and in the Heart Photos extension, whose menu also lists your other accounts and has its own Add another account.
Sign out of one, or of all
The account menu has two ways out:
- Sign out ends your session on the site you are on, and nothing else.
- Sign out of all accounts signs every account out of this browser, and that reaches the other sites of ours you were signed in to here as well.
See every place you are signed in
Open accounts.he.art while signed in and you get one page about you:
- Your accounts: every account signed in on this browser, with the current one marked, a Sign out for each, Add another account and Sign out of all accounts.
- Where you are signed in: for each account, every site and browser it is signed in on, when each was last seen, and which one is "This browser". Each has its own Sign out, so you can end the session on a computer you used once without touching the rest.
- Sign out everywhere: ends every session that account has, on every browser.
- Connected: the Heart Photos extension, the desktop app and any other program holding a library token for that account, with when it connected and was last used. Disconnect ends one at once.
If you ever left yourself signed in on a shared computer, this page is the place to fix it from wherever you are.
Try it
Open He.art, press your name at the foot of the sidebar and choose Add another account. Then open accounts.he.art to see both accounts side by side, and everywhere each one is signed in.