ManagerrSettings
Settings overview
Settings is one sheet with seven sections, and it holds the app’s main preferences. This page says how to open it, what each section covers, and where your choices are written.
Opening Settings
Three ways in, and all three open the same sheet.
- The gear in the top bar of any destination.
- The sidebar, on iPad and on an Apple silicon Mac, where Settings sits below your services.
- Command-comma, if the device has a hardware keyboard attached.
Settings is a sheet rather than a destination of its own, so it covers whatever you were looking at and leaves it untouched behind. Use Done to close Settings. From a nested screen, use Back to return to its parent section if needed.
The seven sections
The first screen lists seven rows, in this order. Each row carries a subtitle in the app, and those are the words used here.
- General
- Startup, feedback and time
- Appearance
- Light, dark and accent colours
- Home & Library
- Layout, activity, recommendations and media controls
- Notifications
- Release reminders
- Services
- Connections and credentials
- Backup and Reset
- Artwork cache, backup, restore and reset
- About
- Help, privacy and app information
Below the last row, the screen ends with one line: “Made for your media services. Free, with no ads or subscriptions.”
How changes are saved
Preferences such as appearance and layout save when you change them. Service connections have a separate Test Service and Save flow. Actions such as restoring a backup or resetting the app ask for confirmation.
The controls that widgets depend on go one step further: changing one rebuilds the widget data at the same moment, so what is on your Home Screen agrees with what is in the app instead of waiting for the next background refresh.
While the demo is running, changes made in Settings are not written to your real configuration. Leave the demo and your own settings are as you left them.
Where your settings live
Two places, and the split is the point.
- A preferences file on the device
- Layouts, toggles, reminders and the list of services with their addresses. Ordinary local storage, in Managerr’s own space on the device.
- Device-only Keychain entries
- API keys and custom header values. These are not in the preferences file. They do not sync to iCloud and they do not reach another device.
Keys are sent to their configured services to authenticate requests. To transfer your saved credentials to another device, create a backup and protect it with a passphrase. Backup and Reset covers what a backup carries and what it deliberately leaves out.
Because the Keychain entries are device-only, a new phone starts with no credentials at all. You can enter each service again in Services, or restore from a backup that includes the keys. Make the backup before you erase or replace the old device.