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@@ -5190,6 +5190,8 @@ Updating includes enabling/disabling accounts and identities.
 
 Existing accounts or identities will never be deleted
 
+Please note that accounts are only considered the same if they are cloud synced and never if the same account is configured on different devices.
+
 All data is [end-to-end encrypted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption),
 which means that the cloud server can't see the data contents.
 The used encryption method is [AES-GCM-SIV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES-GCM-SIV)