# Unable to Login/Sign Up properly and "Email address is badly formatted"

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-login-sign-up-properly-and-email-address-is-badly-formatted/2344981>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** beginner\
**Created:** [March 27, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-login-sign-up-properly-and-email-address-is-badly-formatted/2344981 "2023-03-27T04:08:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![mervincheddar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@mervincheddar](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mervincheddar)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-login-sign-up-properly-and-email-address-is-badly-formatted/2344981/1 "2023-03-27T04:08:34Z")

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Hello! I’m still a beginner to Thunkable and following the Sign In Screen with Stored Variables tutorial on YouTube.

When I try to sign up, I can see the account/email used in the database and it sends me a verification email but it doesn’t navigate to the next screen.

When I try to login, I get an error: “Email address is badly formatted” but the email address I entered is correct.

Is there an error in my code? I’ve been rewatching the tutorial for hours but I still don’t know what’s wrong. I hope someone can help me with this. [Here’s a link to the app.](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/6e1aafe6a91f35dac3fcdd1620e1f743)

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**Author:** ![afnanfozailcw81](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/afnanfozailcw81/32/147438_2.png) [@afnanfozailcw81](https://community.thunkable.com/u/afnanfozailcw81)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-login-sign-up-properly-and-email-address-is-badly-formatted/2344981/2 "2023-04-11T23:04:49Z")

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I instead got:

```
Firebase: Error (auth/invalid-api-key).
```

Where did you get the badly formatted message? Firebase console?  
I’m thinking you entered and checked:  
“1stext@2ndtext.3rdtext” which had to be divided in “@” and “.” in the order shown.  
But can I see a picture or a video? I want to see the problem more .

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-login-sign-up-properly-and-email-address-is-badly-formatted/2344981/3 "2023-04-12T07:00:23Z")

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I’m not sure why we’re answering questions from two weeks ago but since this was just updated, the problem is that you are signing the user in using the text input’s **hint** rather than the text input’s **text**.

 ![Image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/1/b/1b715226b71e9d8ac7e28495d73d910cd5003afa.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![afnanfozailcw81](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/afnanfozailcw81/32/147438_2.png) [@afnanfozailcw81](https://community.thunkable.com/u/afnanfozailcw81)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-login-sign-up-properly-and-email-address-is-badly-formatted/2344981/4 "2023-04-14T02:42:24Z")

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I didn’t realize that. Thanks for telling me.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2023, 2:43am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/unable-to-login-sign-up-properly-and-email-address-is-badly-formatted/2344981/5 "2023-07-13T02:43:23Z")

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