Active sessions

What does the Active sessions list show?

Each row is one signed-in browser, labelled in the form "Chrome on macOS" — browser and operating system, read from the browser's own identification — falling back to "Unknown device" when that identification is missing or unreadable.

Under the label sits a freshness line:

The rows are sessions, not machines: two browsers on one laptop are two rows, and tabs inside one browser share a single row.

How do I sign out a device I'm not using?

Press Sign out on that row. The session ends immediately, the row disappears from the list, and the next time anyone opens Fincanva in that browser they meet the sign-in screen. Your own session is untouched — the row you are sitting in offers no Sign out, only the This device badge.

To clear everything else at once, Sign out all other sessions sits below the list and asks for confirmation first: "Sign out from all other devices?" — "You'll need to sign in again from those devices. This session stays signed in." Confirm with Sign out others. The button only appears when there is in fact another session to end.

How long does a session last if I do nothing?

A session ends on its own in two ways, whichever comes first: 2 hours of inactivity, or 30 days from when it was created. Activity refreshes the idle clock but not the 30-day one, so even a browser you use daily eventually asks you to sign in again.

When either limit fires, the session is gone rather than merely idle, and Fincanva says so: "Session expired" — "Your session expired — please sign in again." Nothing in your account changes; you simply sign in and carry on.

Why did an old device disappear from the list on its own?

Fincanva keeps at most 10 active sessions per account. When a new sign-in would push you past that, the least recently active session is dropped to make room. Signing in again on the same browser also replaces that browser's own earlier row rather than stacking a second one, which is why a much-used device shows one entry and not a history.

So a row vanishing without you pressing anything means one of three ordinary things: the session hit its 2-hour idle limit, it hit its 30-day limit, or it was the oldest of eleven.

Does changing my password sign my other devices out?

Yes. Changing your password from your account settings ends every other session on your account, leaving only the browser you changed it in signed in. That makes a password change the blunt instrument for "get everyone else out", and it is worth knowing that the reverse is not true: signing a session out does not change your password, so anyone who knows the password can sign back in. If you suspect the password itself is known, change it — see passwordless sign-in — and consider turning on two-factor authentication.

Defaults in Fincanva

• One row per signed-in browser; the current one carries the This device badge and cannot sign itself out from the list.
• Other rows show Last active {relative}; the current row shows "Active now".
• A session expires after 2 hours of inactivity, and in all cases 30 days after it was created.
• At most 10 sessions are kept per account; beyond that the least recently active one is dropped.
• Sign out all other sessions appears only when another session exists, and always asks for confirmation.
• Changing your password signs all other sessions out. Scheduling account deletion signs out only the browser you requested it from; the rest are removed when the deletion runs.

Worked example

You finished a session on a hotel computer last night and cannot remember whether you signed out. This morning, from your own laptop, you open your security settings.

Two rows are listed. The top one reads This device with "Active now" — that is the laptop you are on. The second reads "Chrome on Windows" with "Last active 14 hours ago" and a Sign out button, which matches the hotel machine.

You press Sign out on the second row. It disappears, and the hotel browser now holds a dead cookie: whoever opens Fincanva there gets the sign-in screen, with no access to your strategies. Your laptop session is unaffected — you never had to reset your password to close that door.

Had there been four unfamiliar rows instead of one, Sign out all other sessions would have cleared them in a single confirmed action, leaving only the laptop signed in.