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Settings — where every preference lives

Find the Settings screen and the high-level map of which preference lives where.

Settings lives in the top-left menu (☰) → Settings. Rows include: Vessel Setup (systems, tanks, alerts, NMEA bridges), Privacy & Lock, Boat IT, Vessel Identity, Backup & Restore, Vessel Transfer, Member Users, Ship's Directory, Vendors, Preferences, Account, Send Feedback, and About.

Steps

  1. Open Settings

    Menu (☰) → Settings.

  2. Preferences

    Settings → Preferences holds Vessels, Telemetry, GPS Tracking, Reminders, Storage and Appearance. On Launch — which vessel theONE opens — shows there only when you have more than one vessel. Display units are not here; they are in Settings → Account under Measurement units.

  3. Display — Record tracks by itself

    Settings → Display → Record tracks by itself is on unless you turn it off. When the boat is underway — three minutes above 2 knots with no leg running, while theONE is open — a cruising track starts recording by itself, keeps recording in the background with iOS's location indicator showing, and is saved after thirty minutes stopped with theONE open. Off, nothing starts on its own.

  4. Change appearance

    The sun/moon button in the toolbar is the quick light/dark flip; it sits on most top-level screens, Mission Control, Trips, Maintenance, Stowage, Calendar, Vessel Briefing, Settings and Vessel Setup among them. There is no Appearance row in the menu. The three-way choice — System, Light, Dark — lives in Preferences → Appearance.

  5. Text size

    theONE follows the text size you set for your iPhone (the Settings app → Display & Brightness → Text Size, or Accessibility → Display & Text Size → Larger Text) throughout the app. At your usual size nothing moves; a larger setting makes the text larger. The live instruments — Mission Control's tiles, the Captain's Console, and the chart with its chips, overlays and route editor — grow with it too, but their figures and labels, and the pills and tags on the tiles, stop two steps past the usual size, and a depth figure shrinks to fit rather than wrap. The sheets and lists you open from them follow your size all the way. Buttons in the bar across the top of a screen stop at the largest standard size, so the screen's title still fits beside them, and a letter or symbol drawn inside a small badge or round button keeps its size. theONE stops growing at the third of the five larger accessibility sizes, so two-column panels still fit. At those accessibility sizes, a row whose pieces sit side by side — a name and its badge, a label and its amount, a heading and its count — puts one under the other instead, and a title, name or route that is held to one or two lines at your usual size is shown in full, so no word is cut short or broken in the middle; a one-word label (a status, a section heading) shrinks a little rather than break, and a section heading of two or more words that does not fit on one line puts each word on its own line (Departure readiness on a trip, for one) rather than being cut short. The follow-route readings on the chart (SOG, DTG, XTE) shrink to fit on one line rather than wrap. At those sizes a card's section heading puts its count and note under it, and two long screen titles shorten so they fit beside their buttons — Ship's Directory reads Directory, and Edit Observation reads Edit — while VoiceOver still reads the full title. On a trip at those sizes, each leg's number sits above its details, and the forecast's heading sits above its source, with each day's name over its conditions. At every size a forecast day's full name shows (This Afternoon, Wednesday), and the conditions line up after the longest one. The Playbooks search field stays at the top of the screen, its prompt showing, at every size.

  6. Reduce Motion

    theONE follows Reduce Motion (the Settings app → Accessibility → Motion → Reduce Motion). With it on, theONE's own animations are switched off: a panel opening, a banner arriving or a figure changing lands at once instead of sliding or easing in, and the live dot on Mission Control's telemetry panel holds still instead of pulsing.

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