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title: "Does Fluxer ask for my phone number?"
description: "You don't need a phone number to sign up or to use Fluxer. If our spam rules pause messaging on your account, you can text a code or ask our support team to verify you by hand."
url: "https://fluxer.com/help/phone-verification"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2026-11-01"
category: "Account and sign-in"
---

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# Does Fluxer ask for my phone number?

You don't need a phone number to sign up or to use Fluxer. If our spam rules pause messaging on your account, you can text a code or ask our support team to verify you by hand.

You don't need a phone number to sign up or to use Fluxer, and texting a code is never the only way to lift a pause on messaging. If our spam rules pause messaging on your account, you may be asked to verify by texting a code from your phone, and you can reply to the email instead and ask our support team to verify you by hand without a phone number.

## Do I need a phone number to use Fluxer?

No. You can sign up and send messages without a phone number. Fluxer has no SMS two-factor authentication, and [self-hosted Fluxer](https://fluxer.com/help/self-hosting-fluxer.md) has no phone verification.

## Why was I asked to text a code to Fluxer?

If our [spam rules](https://fluxer.com/help/messaging-paused.md) pause messaging on your account, the email we send has a one-time code to text from your phone to our verification number. If texting the code doesn't work, reply to the email, and a person on our team will check the pause and lift it if it should be lifted.

## Can I get verified without a phone?

Yes. Reply to the email we sent you about the pause on messaging and ask for [manual verification](https://fluxer.com/help/messaging-paused.md), and our support team will verify you by hand without a phone number.

## Why is messaging paused on my account?

[Messaging is paused](https://fluxer.com/help/messaging-paused.md) when our spam rules place limits on an account, and a person on our team can lift the pause at any time. You can also appeal it if you think it's a mistake.

## What does Fluxer keep after phone verification?

We delete the text you send us, including your phone number, from our own systems within 24 hours, as [section 7.2 of our privacy policy](https://fluxer.com/privacy.md) says, and your account records only that verification happened. To stop one phone number from lifting pauses on many accounts, we also keep a one-way record of the phone number, together with the account it verified, for about a month at most, and we never use it for anything else.

The texts you send go through a text messaging provider, as [section 4.2](https://fluxer.com/privacy.md) describes.

## Is phone verification an age or ID check?

No. A text with a code doesn't tell us your age, and we use it only to lift the pause and to stop one number from lifting pauses on many accounts. Fluxer [doesn't verify ages](https://fluxer.com/help/age-verification.md) and never asks for or accepts ID, selfies or face scans from anyone.

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Canonical page: https://fluxer.com/help/phone-verification

Last updated on November 1, 2026