Reset settings

What goes back to default

• “Playback” in full: skips, speed, rewind after pause, the finished-book threshold and all the section’s switches, including “Scrubber on the lock screen”.
• “Audio processing”: skip silence and volume leveling turn off.
• “Sleep timer” in full: fade-out, rollback, counting, shaking; “Auto sleep timer” turns off.
• “Data”: “Offload only over Wi‑Fi” turns off, “Catalogue backup in iCloud” turns on at once, and the auto cleanup rules are cleared. “Offload finished books automatically” turns off — the question after a book comes back, and “Stop offering” is cleared.
• “Privacy”: the title is visible on the Lock Screen again, and books return to the phone’s search at once.
• “Appearance”: the “Terminal” theme, the factory accent colours and heading fonts of all themes, the “Standard” icon. Language — “Same as system”; it changes at the next launch.

Other devices

• While “Sync across devices” is on, the shared settings go back to defaults on your other devices too: the theme, colour and title font, “Playback”, “Audio processing”, “Sleep timer” and “Privacy”.
• Only on this device: the icon, language, “Preload Next Book”, “Scrubber on the lock screen” and the “Data” section.
• With sync off, the reset affects only this device; when you turn sync on again, the shared settings come from iCloud.

What stays as it was

• Books, files, progress, bookmarks, shelves and statistics.
• The Akoue Pro purchase.
• “Sync across devices”.
• Reader settings, library grouping and sorting.
• The welcome screen won’t show again, a deleted “On device” shelf won’t come back, and “What’s new” won’t become unread.

Undo

Not possible: the previous values are not remembered. That is why the app asks “Reset settings?” before a reset, and with sync on it warns that the shared settings will go back to defaults on all your devices. Nothing changes until you tap “Reset”.

Tip

To return a single setting, you don’t need a reset: change that setting itself. A reset helps when it is unclear what exactly was changed.

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