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Expand Up @@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ Identities have traits and metadata:
sign up date if the identity was created through a migration. Other common use cases include for example storing a user's
subscription status, legacy user ID, or basic roles.

## At a glance

| | User changeable via [settings](../../reference/api#tag/frontend/operation/updateSettingsFlow) flow | Available in [toSession](../../reference/api#tag/frontend/operation/toSession) API | [getIdentity](../../reference/api#tag/identity/operation/getIdentity) API (updatable via [updateIdentity](../../reference/api#tag/identity/operation/updateIdentity)) |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `traits` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| `metadata_public` | | ✅ | ✅ |
| `metadata_admin` | | | ✅ |

## Metadata

There are two types of identity metadata:
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