Settings overview

The three bands and how to find a setting.

What it's for

Settings is fourteen panes, and that is the right number — every one is a real thing that has to live somewhere, and folding them into each other is how grab-bag panes get made. What changed is the order. The panes are grouped by when you come here, not by subject: is this something you set up once, something you touch between drops, or something advanced?

Come here to activate a licence, turn on sync, lock the machine, or wire up webhooks — and use the filter box when you already know the name.

The Settings screen: a filterable left navigation grouped into three sections, with the Plan & licence pane open.
The left nav is grouped by when you come here, not by subject.shot-settings · Settings open on Plan & licence; left nav grouped into Once at the start / Between drops / Advanced; filter box empty

Find a pane fast

Type into the filter at the top of the nav and the list narrows as you type. Two things it does on purpose:

  • The pane you are on always stays listed, match or not — it carries an · open tag, so you never lose your place mid-word.
  • A query that matches nothing says so, rather than leaving one unrelated pane on screen looking like a filter that broke.

Grouped by when you come here

Once, at the start
Plan & licence, Sync between devices, Team, Notifications & webhooks, TextChest codes, Lysted sales sync, Background monitoring, Shortcuts — set up once and mostly forgotten.
Between drops
Appearance & alerts, Form rules, All schedules, Security & privacy — the ones you genuinely return to.
Advanced
Fingerprint, CAPTCHA & engine, and Developer tools.

Text size

Appearance & alerts carries a Text size switch: Compact, which is how Umbra now opens, or Comfortable, the roomier spacing it had before. Your choice is remembered and applied before the window paints, so there is no flash of the other size on start-up.

Compact is the default because the most common thing anyone said about Umbra was that there was too much on screen, and a setting people have to go looking for does not fix that. If you prefer the old spacing, one click here restores it for good.

It moves both the text and the space around it. Every padding, margin and gap in the app is on one scale, and Compact tightens that scale as well as the type. On the Accounts table a row goes from 57 pixels to 44, so ten rows sit where seven did, and long names and numbers stop wrapping.

What Compact does not touch is anything with a fixed size: panel widths, the session dock, and the positions things are pinned to. Only the space between things moves, so no layout can collapse.

Where the security controls live

The lock, the recovery kit, the crash-report and update switches, and the map of what leaves this machine all sit under Security & privacy, in the Between drops group — not under Appearance, where they used to hide. Nobody looking for "lock my accounts with a password" thinks Appearance.

The pages under Settings

Plan, licence & devices
Activation, your plan and seat, moving to another machine, and what happens if a payment lapses. See Plan, licence & devices.
Sync between devices
Keeping one set of Accounts on more than one of your own machines, sealed before it uploads. See Sync between devices.
Backup & recovery
Locking this machine with a passphrase, and making a recovery kit that proves it restores. See Backup & recovery.

For the full account of what stays on your machine and what reaches our servers, see What we can see.