Watching on the Web and Phone

Watching on the Web and Phone

From Flashback 0.8 you can sign in at flashbk.gg/account on a phone or any browser to watch your Cloud clips, catch up on your friends' clips, change who can see things, and react. Uploads still come from Flashback on Windows. Your own clips and their visibility work today; friends' clips and reactions arrive when profiles and friends open.

What you need

To...	You need
Watch a clip someone shared by link	Nothing. Link clips play in any browser without signing in.
Watch your own Cloud clips, the feed and friends' clips	A Flashback Cloud account (no plan needed)
Upload	Flashback on Windows and a Cloud plan

The feed, friends and profiles are open in the United States for now. Elsewhere, signing in on the web still gives you your own clips, their links and your account tools.

Sign in

1. Go to flashbk.gg/account and choose Sign in.
2. Sign in with Discord (or Google, where offered). Use the same one you use in the app; Discord and Google sign-ins are separate accounts.
3. If it's your first sign-in, confirm your date of birth for the age check and accept the Terms and Privacy Policy, exactly as in the app.

A web session lasts up to 30 days. There are no passwords to remember.

What's on the site

Page	Where	What you can do
Feed	flashbk.gg/account	See what your friends shared in the last 30 days, newest first
My clips	flashbk.gg/account/clips	Every Cloud clip you own, whatever its visibility. Filter by game, visibility and type, or select several and change who can see them at once
A clip's page	flashbk.gg/account/clips/...	Play it, rename it, change who can see it, edit tags, pin it, add it to a collection, copy its link, or delete it
Friends	flashbk.gg/account/friends	Add friends by @username, answer requests, see who you've blocked
Search	flashbk.gg/account/search	Search My clips or Friends' clips by words, #tag or game:<name>
Collections	flashbk.gg/account/collections	Create and edit collections (the app links here)
Profiles	flashbk.gg/u/<username>, or the short flashbk.gg/<username>	Anyone's profile you're allowed to see, grouped by game
Settings	flashbk.gg/account/settings	Your profile, reactions, link identity, data download, sign out everywhere, account deletion
Account	flashbk.gg/account/overview	Your plan and usage, your data, and a danger zone to sign out or delete the account
Shared clips	flashbk.gg/c/...	Any link clip, signed in or not

Details on visibility, profiles and friends are on Sharing and Visibility and Profiles and Friends.

Built for phones

The account pages are designed phone-first:

• One column on narrow screens, with no sideways scrolling.
• Videos play inline with a poster, instead of jumping to full screen.
• Large tap targets for every button.
• Quick profiles. A profile page loads its header picture and first clips straight away, and going Back to a profile or collection doesn't reload it.
• No JavaScript needed for any action. A small optional script on clip pages adds Copy link and, where your browser supports it, Share buttons and sends reactions without reloading the page; everything still works without it.

Account tools on the web

You don't need the Windows app to look after your account. In Settings on the web you can:

• Download my data: everything Flashback Cloud keeps about your account, as a JSON file.
• Sign out of all browsers and apps: ends every session, including the app's. You can sign in again anytime.
• Delete Cloud account: ends your plan now, takes your clips off the web, and deletes everything after seven days unless you sign in again and keep the account. You'll be asked to confirm it's you unless you signed in within the last few minutes. Clips on your PC aren't touched.
• See Your reports (the reports you've sent) and manage the people you've blocked.

See Cloud Account and Data for what each of these does.

Cookies

Signing in on flashbk.gg sets one essential cookie that keeps you signed in for up to 30 days, plus a 10-minute cookie used only while you sign in. There are no analytics or advertising cookies.

Quick answers

Can I upload from my phone? Not in 0.8. Uploads come from Flashback on Windows. Your phone is for watching, sharing links, reacting and managing visibility.

Do I need a plan to watch on my phone? No. Watching your own clips, the feed and friends' clips needs a Cloud account, not a plan. If your plan has ended, your clips stay watchable until the removal date shown in the app.

My friend sent a Friends clip link and it says the page isn't available. Friends clips only open for the owner's friends while signed in. Sign in at flashbk.gg/account with the account your friend added.

Does watching count as a view? Views are counted on a clip's share page (flashbk.gg/c/...), at most once per visitor per clip per day. The owner's own views don't count.

Related pages: Flashback Cloud · Profiles and Friends · Sharing and Visibility · Cloud Account and Data