How to Share Your Stitch Profile Safely

The three ways people share a Stitch profile

You can point someone to your Stitch profile in three practical ways: telling them your username so they can search for it, sharing your QR code for a quick in-person scan, or sending a direct profile link. All three lead to the same place — your public profile screen — with the only difference being convenience, not what the other person can ultimately see.

What a stranger sees before becoming a contact

Before someone is an accepted contact, what they can see on your profile is governed by your visibility settings, not by whether they found you through a username search, a QR scan, or a link. Your profile photo visibility and last-seen visibility (Settings → Privacy & Security) both apply the same way regardless of which contact you have not yet accepted is looking.

If you plan to share your profile widely — posting your username or QR code somewhere public, for instance — it is worth setting photo and last-seen visibility to My Contacts beforehand, so a stranger who finds you that way sees less than an accepted contact would.

Sharing in different contexts calls for different caution

• In person, with someone you just met: a QR scan or a shared username is low-risk and convenient — you can see who you are giving it to.
• In a group chat or shared space with people you partly know: reasonable, but consider that anyone in that space now has an easy path to your profile.
• Publicly — a social media bio, a public forum, a flyer: treat this the same as making your username fully public, since anyone at all can find and request you from it.

Resetting your sharing link

If you shared your QR code or profile link somewhere you later regret — it ended up more public than intended, or circulated further than you expected — you can reset your QR code from Settings. This generates a new code and invalidates the old one immediately, so anyone who still has a copy of the old code can no longer use it to reach your profile. It does not affect contacts you already have.

What sharing your profile does not do

Sharing your username, QR code, or profile link does not add anyone as a contact automatically and does not open a chat with them. It only gets someone to your profile screen — becoming contacts and being able to message each other still requires a contact request to be sent and accepted, which means you always retain a checkpoint even after sharing has happened.

A short checklist before sharing widely

• Set profile photo and last-seen visibility to My Contacts if you are sharing outside a small trusted circle.
• Reset your QR code if it has circulated further than you intended.
• Remember that sharing your profile is not the same as accepting a contact — you still control that final step.
• Decline any contact request or message that turns out to be unwanted, and block if it continues.

Thinking about audience before you share

The most useful question before sharing your profile anywhere is simply: who is actually going to see this? A username told to one person at an event has an audience of one. The same username printed on a business card has an audience of everyone who ever holds that card. A QR code embedded in a public social media bio has an audience of anyone who follows you, forever, until you change it. None of these are wrong choices by default — but they call for different visibility settings, and it is worth matching your settings to the widest audience you are actually sharing with, not the audience you have in mind when you imagine who will use it.

If your profile ends up more exposed than you wanted

If you realize your username or QR code has been shared more widely than you intended — forwarded beyond the person you gave it to, posted somewhere you did not expect — the practical response is the same regardless of how it happened: tighten your visibility settings immediately, and reset your QR code if that was the specific thing that circulated. You do not need to figure out exactly how far it spread before acting; resetting and tightening visibility both take effect immediately and protect you from that point forward regardless of how many people saw the old version.