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title: "Enabling, Updating & Disabling System PIN"
slug: "enabling-and-disabling-system-pin"
updated: 2025-10-16T15:44:58Z
published: 2025-10-16T15:44:58Z
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# Enabling, Updating & Disabling System PIN

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System PINs provides the option to set a Personal Identification Number (PIN), which can be used to confirm your identity without requiring re-entry of your username and password during certain system actions:

- Approving signatures within a procedure
- Approving procedure and batch overrides
- Approving batch templates
- Reviewing, deleting, or locking procedures
- Starting batch runs

Review the sections below to learn how to enable or disable your system PIN.

## Enabling your system PIN

1. On the left navigation panel, click *account_circle* **Profile**
2. Click the **Security** tab.
3. In the Configure Pin section of the page, complete steps to set a PIN that meets system and organizational standards.
4. Enter the same PIN in the **Confirm PIN** field.
5. Click **Save**.

## Updating your system PIN

**VERSION NOTE:** The steps to update your system PIN differ slightly based on the version of Tempo your organization uses and whether you remember your current PIN.

If you remember your current system PIN, you can update your PIN at any time from the Security tab on your Profile. Complete the steps in the [Enabling your system PIN](/v1/docs/enabling-and-disabling-system-pin#enabling-your-system-pin) section of this article. The system may require that you enter your current PIN and click Submit prior to updating your PIN.

If you have forgotten your current system PIN, you can disable your PIN within the first 10 minutes of logging in to Tempo. First complete the steps in the [Disabling your system PIN](/v1/docs/enabling-and-disabling-system-pin#disabling-your-system-pin) section of this article to disable your PIN, then complete the steps in the [Enabling your system PIN](/v1/docs/enabling-and-disabling-system-pin#enabling-your-system-pin) section of this article to enable a new PIN.

## Disabling your system PIN

          **NOTE:**

          

Disabling a PIN is only available within 10 minutes of logging in to the system. If more than 10 minutes has passed, log out and log back in before completing the steps below.

1. On the left navigation panel, click *account_circle* **Profile**
2. Click the **Security** tab.
3. Under the Disable PIN menu, click **Disable**, then click **Confirm** (if necessary).