Door and gate codes, safely
Show the code only to someone who is actually at your door.
A code typed into the guide is never printed in the page itself. It is revealed only after a check you choose.
Your options
- 1Open: anyone with the link sees it. Fine for a lobby door code that changes often.
- 2Ask me to approve (free): the visitor taps a button, you get a text, and one tap from you reveals the code to that visitor only.
- 3Location verify (free): the code unlocks by itself once the visitor's phone is physically near the address.
💡Ask me to approve needs an approval contact. Add at least one number on the contact step. Until you do, the photo editor flags the gate and the code is not shown to visitors at all, because a request with nobody to receive it would leave them waiting at your door.
Good to know
Approval requests are rate limited, so nobody can flood your phone by tapping the button repeatedly.
When a request reaches you, you do not have to choose between revealing the code and refusing. The approval screen also lets you type a short message ("Ring the bell and we will open for you", "The gate is already open") and the visitor sees exactly that text where the code would have been. No code is revealed in that case. You can see and change all of this any time: open Mark up the photos, go to the photo of the door, and switch on Door / gate code. The code belongs to that one photo, so a place with two gates can carry a different code on each. If you switch it on and then move on with the field still empty, mikum.me asks first: go back and type the code, or switch the option back off, because a gate with no code behind it gives the visitor a reveal button that reveals nothing.
If your number is in the US or Canada
A +1 number gets one extra line under it: a tick box agreeing to receive the approval texts. US and Canadian carriers require that agreement to be given separately and on purpose, so the box starts empty and the contact is only saved once you tick it. Every other country is unchanged: no box, nothing to tick.
One setting for every gate
Location-verify and "ask me to approve" used to be a choice you made on each photo. Now they're one decision for the whole guide, made on the Gates & ETA card (between Contacts and Translations). Turn either on there and it applies to every photo with a code, including ones you add later. A photo's own panel is just the code itself now; codes are always tap-to-reveal, with no option to show one without a tap.
If any photo has a gate code, mikum.me asks you to open the Gates & ETA card at least once before publishing, just to make an active call on whether visitors should need your approval, and to add a contact if so. If you try to leave that card with "ask me to approve" switched on and nobody on the contact list, mikum.me asks first: go back and add someone, or switch the option off again, because an approval gate with nobody to text hides the code from every visitor. Visitor ETA sharing lives on this same card too, moved from the publish page. You can also reach the card while you're editing: tap the step title at the top of any step to open the step list, and pick Gates & ETA there.
Opening the gate to everyone
From the approval screen you can also open the gate to everyone until a time you pick (the rest of the evening, say) and every visitor gets the code with no request at all.
What they see during that window is the ordinary covered Tap to reveal door code button, and one tap on it shows the code. It used to appear on its own, as a bare number nobody had asked for, which reads like a stray figure rather than the code to your door. Nothing changes on your side: the window opens, closes and expires exactly as before.
Last updated Aug 7, 2026