Preferences
General Preferences
Configure your basic platform preferences, including language settings, display theme, and layout options for the best user experience.
Auto dark theme
Automatically switch to dark theme based on your system preferences
Privacy Settings
Control what your teammates can see. These choices are enforced by the server, not just hidden in the app.
Sending & Receiving Files
Control how files are sent and received with Adaptive Optimistic Upload, ZIP bundling, same-network approval, and transfer encryption. Settings apply account-wide across all devices.
Sending
Adaptive Optimistic Upload
SendFlo normally transfers files directly from sender to receiver (P2P). When direct connections repeatedly fail, SendFlo can begin uploading the file in the background before the receiver connects, increasing download speed.
Desktop
Applies Optimistic Upload to files sent from desktop devices.
Mobile
Applies Optimistic Upload to files sent from phones and metered connections.
Projects on Mobile
Applies Optimistic Upload to Project sends from phones and metered connections, when enabled at the Project level.
Send as single ZIP
Bundles multi-file sends into one .zip archive on your device before sending. Controls the default for each transfer, but you can change it per send.
File restore after expiry
Keeps sent files recoverable after their links expire, counts against your storage. Available on all paid plans and adjustable per send.
Hold scheduled links until send time
When you schedule a send, the link itself stays private until the scheduled time (recipients see 'not yet available'). Turn off to make links live immediately and only delay the notification emails.
Skip accept on my network
Receivers on the same network can download without approval. Unrecognized remote receivers still require your explicit approval to download files via a security code.
Encrypt files during transfer
Encrypts files on your device before any relay through SendFlo — our storage only ever holds ciphertext. No measurable speed cost.
Receiving
Download as a ZIP
Combines multiple received files into one .zip download, avoiding repeated browser prompts.
Receive in the mobile browser
While sendflo.app is open in a browser on your phone, files sent to it from your other devices arrive there automatically. Turn off to save battery; you can still enter a key.
Auto-accept from previous senders
Transfers from devices you’ve received files from before start automatically (new devices still need approval).
Notification emails
What SendFlo may email you about. On-site notifications (the bell) always show your account's activity; these switches control email only.
Sign in to manage notification emails.
Notification Channels
Deliver SendFlo notifications beyond the app — to email addresses, Slack, Discord, Teams, or your own signed webhooks. Which events reach each channel is set below, in Notification Preferences.
Deliver notifications to additional email addresses
Slack
Send notifications to Slack channels
WebHook
Send signed HTTP POST notifications to custom endpoints
Discord
Send notifications to Discord channels
Microsoft Teams
Send notifications to Teams channels
Notification Preferences
Choose which events reach you, per channel. Each row shows its importance (1–10): 7+ emails you by default, 8+ always emails (locked). Slack, Discord, Teams and Webhook columns appear once you connect them above. In-app and push are instant; other channels follow the cadence below.
Transfers
Transfer advice
Links & requests
Account
Delivery cadence
How often each channel may message you. Smart batches high-frequency events (downloads, completed transfers) into one summary and sends singular events (failures, low credits) immediately.
Network & Devices
Every device signed into this account. The Metered switch marks a device's connection as metered, so Adaptive Optimistic Upload spends data carefully there. Detected automatically where possible; phones and tablets default to metered, desktops to unmetered. Rename a device to keep the list recognizable — a device you name is also how you appear to the people you send to from it ("From Dana's MacBook" instead of your email); they can still give you a name of their own.
Device
Metered
Admin's Windows
Windows · Desktop · 203.0.113.24 · online now · auto
LXD's iPhone
iOS · Mobile · 198.51.100.7 · online now · auto
Studio Mac
macOS · Desktop · 203.0.113.24 · 26 h ago
Mobile Preferences
Customize the bottom navigation bar shown on mobile devices — choose how the active tab is marked and whether the bar matches your theme or stays clean and white.
Affects the global footer navigation on mobile.
Color matches your active theme; white switches to a pure white bar.