Settings

Backup and Reset

One screen for everything Managerr keeps on this device: the artwork it caches, the backups you write out to Files, and the switch that empties the app.

Image Cache

Image Cache is the first row, and the toggle inside it — Cache images on this device — ships off. Keeping artwork on disk is a storage choice you make rather than one made for you.

With it on, the cache is deliberately modest.

• Posters are resized to 480 pixels and backdrops to 1,280 pixels on their longest edge, unless the original takes less space.
• It holds up to 500 MB.
• It stays out of your device backups.
• Images are removed when you remove their service.
• Older cached images shrink as you browse.

The screen shows how much is stored and offers Clear Image Cache. Clearing means Managerr asks your servers for artwork again as you browse; your media and services are unchanged.

Making a backup

Back up & restore opens a screen titled Backups. Files are saved where the Files app shows them, under On My iPhone → Managerr. Nothing carries them off the device for you — move a copy into iCloud Drive yourself if you want one somewhere else.

There are two ways to write one.

Back Up Now

Asks for a passphrase, twice. It encrypts the API keys and custom header values inside that backup.

Back Up Without Keys

Writes the same settings and services with no keys in them at all.

Managerr cannot reset your passphrase and does not store it. Without it, the keys in that backup cannot be recovered. The app’s own advice is worth repeating: a few unrelated words make a stronger passphrase than one short complicated one.

A backup names your services and their addresses in plain text, deliberately, so you can open your own backup and see what it holds. API keys and custom header values are encrypted when you give a passphrase. Settings and service addresses remain readable; the whole file is not encrypted.

Automatic backups

Back up automatically ships off, and Keep 5 backups is the retention — anywhere from 1 to 20. The retention limit applies when manual or automatic backups are written. Older files in Managerr’s backup folder are deleted when the limit is exceeded; keep a separate copy elsewhere if you want to retain it.

The limit is worth stating exactly, because the app states it too: automatic backups save your settings and services, and your API keys are only included when you tap Back Up Now and choose a passphrase. An automatic backup will bring back your configuration; it will not bring back your keys.

Restoring

Restore from a File… picks any Managerr backup, including one kept in iCloud Drive. A file that has not been downloaded to the device yet is requested and reported plainly, rather than failing as a decode error you cannot act on.

Before anything is written, a sheet says what the file holds: when it was created, which version of Managerr made it, and every service in it by name and kind.

Then a choice about the services already here.

Merge

Adds or updates services using their saved identities, merges reminders and keeps the preferences already on this device. Matching names alone do not combine two services.

Replace everything

Restores the backup’s preferences, services and reminders. Services absent from the backup are removed from this device along with their credentials and cached information.

It defaults to Replace everything when you have no services yet, and to Merge when you do.

A settings-only backup supplies no API keys or custom headers. Existing credentials for the same saved service can remain on this device. On a new device, enter the missing keys and headers after restoring; Home flags missing credentials under Needs attention.

A restore cannot be undone from inside the app.

When a backup already exists on the device you do not have to come through Settings at all. The first-run welcome screen offers Restore from a backup directly — see First launch.

To manage existing backups, open the Files app to share or copy a backup. In Managerr’s Backups screen, swipe a saved backup row and choose Delete to remove that backup file. Back up and restore are unavailable in demo mode.

Reset App

Reset App — Delete all services and local app data is the last row, and it asks before it does anything. The confirmation is the whole of it: “This deletes all services, credentials, settings, caches and reminders from this app. Your remote servers and media are not changed. Exported backups remain in Files.”

Read the last two sentences as the promise they are. Nothing on your servers is touched, and the backups you exported are still in Files afterwards — so writing one first turns a reset into something you can come back from.

How it ships