Settings reference

How Settings is organized

Settings is divided into segmented sections at the top of the screen: General, Assistant, Sync, and Dev. Controls that you adjust while reading — page-turn hardware, keyboard shortcuts, themes, and per-score actions — live in the reader's Toolbox instead, so you can change them beside the open score.

Open Settings

From the library:

1. Tap the Settings button (gear icon) in the library toolbar.

From an open score:

1. Open Toolbox.
2. Scroll to Sync & Support and tap Settings.

General

Apple Account

Apple Account signs you in with Sign in with Apple. It is separate from the iCloud backup in the Sync section — signing out here does not affect your backup.

Signing in unlocks PDF → Smart Score conversion beyond the anonymous free allowance, and the contribute-to-public-library flow. Without an account, free conversions run anonymously when available; quota-based features require signing in.

Accessibility

Note Hands-free page turning — Bluetooth page pedal and Face gesture page turning — and hardware-keyboard Shortcuts are not in Settings. They live in the reader's Toolbox under Accessibility (see below).

Performance

For older iPads when Follow, playback, or tab switching feels late. Full features remain available when these are off.

Following

Both are separate from the audio a live Follow session itself needs. See Data and audio before turning training audio on.

Pitch

Reference pitch sets the A reference the follower and tuner listen against (default A = 440 Hz), so tracking matches the room's true pitch.

1. Tap Reference pitch.
2. Play and hold your instrument's A — the app reads the frequency for you.

Assistant

The Assistant section holds every AI helper. Each one can be turned off individually. Ask our server when a page is too hard is the control that sends score pages off the device; Find the lines of music automatically and Apple Intelligence (on-device) run on your iPad.

Ask the Score opens the assistant's own preferences: workflow, specialists, Vault and Deep Research answer paths, Apple Intelligence, and suggested questions. The same screen opens from inside Ask the Score.

Sync and storage

The Sync section is the single home for backup, export, and disk use.

iCloud backup

iCloud Backup & Sync keeps your whole package — scores, metadata, annotations, anchors, calibration, versions, and recordings — in your own iCloud.

Note This backup is not a browsable folder. To see your scores in the Files app, use the iCloud Drive folder below.

With backup on:

• Send to iCloud now uploads your new scores, recordings, and changes.
• Import from iCloud downloads anything in your backup that isn't on this device. It uploads nothing.
• Routine sync backs up on a schedule (weekly, every 2 weeks, or monthly; off by default). It runs the next time you open the app after the interval elapses — never while the app is closed. When a cadence is set, you can also pick the time of day it aims for.
• Delete iCloud backup permanently deletes the copy in your iCloud and turns backup off. Your local library is not touched.

Files-app copy and portable export

• iCloud Drive folder (visible in Files) makes a real, browsable copy of your scores in an Page Turner folder in iCloud Drive. It uses additional iCloud storage — roughly the size of your library. Folder organization changes how it is sorted; Update now refreshes it. Turning it off removes the copy.
• Export my library (.zip) saves a portable copy to Files: PDFs, versions, annotations, anchors, system maps, recordings, and a metadata manifest. The export is a snapshot — later edits need a fresh export.

Storage

• Free up space now merges duplicate re-imported scores and removes files no score in your library points to. It runs only when you tap it and confirm with Clean up now, then reports what it cleaned. Your scores, annotations, and recordings stay.
• Clear cache removes cloud-score copies, thumbnails, and temporary files the app can re-download or rebuild. It never touches your scores, recordings, or annotations. Clear automatically schedules this on a cadence.

Reader Toolbox

Open Toolbox from the reader for the controls that belong beside the score:

• Live tracker: Trainer, Lab, and Follow preset. Lab is greyed out when Performance mode and Disable the Lab are both on in Settings.
• Practice: Analysis, Auto-fingering, Transpose, Focus Mode, Metronome, Tuner, and Piano. Transpose needs a MusicXML or MEI version; Metronome, Tuner, and Transpose open in place instead of navigating away.
• Edit This Score: Convert to Smart Score and Fix a Wrong Conversion are mutually exclusive — both rows stay visible and the one that does not apply is greyed out. Rearrange pages, Crop, and Dewarp & Clean need a PDF version (a scanned or photographed score); Share and Print need a PDF or MusicXML version. Table of Contents appears in this section on iPhone; on iPad it is a button in the reader toolbar instead.
• Accessibility: Bluetooth page pedal, Face gesture page turning, and Shortcuts — every reader action has a default hardware-keyboard shortcut you can rebind here.
• Interface: app theme and score-paper theme.
• Sync & Support: Assistant, Sync now (pushes your latest changes to iCloud and pulls anything new from your other devices), Report a problem, Support, and Settings.

Limit Score-action availability depends on the active version's format. A Smart Score without a PDF underneath does not show the PDF-only rows, and a PDF that was never converted does not show Smart Score tools.

Diagnostics

The Dev section shows service status and an in-app console; it is not needed for normal use. One control there matters for privacy: Send diagnostics (on by default) sends anonymous crash, hang, and performance reports with no personal data. Turning it off stops reporting immediately.

Limit The iPad layout is the reference for this guide. The compact iPhone layout can place the same control in a menu or omit a feature; platform listing does not promise identical controls.

For microphone, camera, and notification permissions controlled by iPadOS or iOS, see Permissions.