You CAN'T ACTUALLY rename your app?

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So… when I made my Bubble account I used my personal email, which has my first and last name at the start. Bubble automatically created an app for me, which is the one I used to develop the site I now have live. I changed the name early on, because I didn’t want it to be named my actual full name! At no point was it made clear that you can only rename it for internal purposes, but the original name will still be broadcast over the internet!!! I am, for lack of a better word, completely enraged!

The support team are being slow and their suggestion feels pretty useless. Apparently it’s impossible to change the app’s name on the Bubble server because it’s used for their internal indexing. Which means that the original name will always be available online (particularly, when I was testing a cookies thing, I saw that there were cookies saved with my full name as the app name!)

Bubble suggests I duplicate the entire app, but that feels ridiculous since I’ll likely lose all the progress I’ve built up by having it live, it’ll impact any users trying to use it, and I have no clue what else it might mess up (I am not a dev… hence using Bubble).

So, as it stands, my full name is visible to people using my site if they know where to look, which I feel like is a HUGE violation of my privacy. Bubble NEVER made it clear that I couldn’t change the name fully, let alone the fact that they created that first app with that name. I feel fooled and really quite upset. It’s like “Hey, here’s your first app! You can change the name here, but if you ever go live, the name we’ve given this app will always be visible. Have fun!”

So… does anyone know how I can actually change the name so no one online can find it from the live site, without having to duplicate or create a new app?

Oh… and if I have to duplicate it, I guess I’ll need to cancel my current app’s subscription and take out a new one, and for a period of time I’ll be paying for two?

This all just feels completely unfair :frowning: like, wtf Bubble! Just use a random string of characters and numbers… like everybody else?

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You can put a site maintenance page on your current site. Clone your app. Upgrade to a paid plan. Then just update DNS record so your app link points to the new app. This should work.

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Like the above commenter comments, you can just export your JSON and host it on a new app if you want.

However, yes, the app ID is entirely public and is immutable.

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In the end that’s pretty much what I had to do. Thankfully it all seems to be back up and running as it should, but it’s a shame Bubble used those details to create the default name without making it clear that, if I deployed that app, it would be visible to users. Just feels like Bubble could have made it explicitly clear / not use my personal details for it.