Settings and Preferences

Settings controls how Orrique logs, looks, recommends, syncs, and protects your journal. This page is a map of the screen. Detailed workflows live in their focused guides.

Open Settings

• On iPhone, use the Settings control in the Today toolbar.
• On iPad, choose Settings in the sidebar.
• On Mac, choose Settings in the main app sidebar or press Command + comma. The dedicated Settings window opens with its own sidebar.

On iPhone and iPad, the launchpad groups Account and Pro, Daily Preferences, Data and Planning, Privacy, and Support. Mac also includes menu bar controls.

Use the Mac Settings sidebar

The Mac Settings window keeps its sidebar visible while you move between pages. It opens on Overview the first time, then remembers the last Settings page you selected.

The sidebar has direct entries for Logging Defaults, Display, Today Pick, Behavior, Notifications, Weather, Data and Sync, Device Storage, Calendar & Planning, Backup & Export, Privacy, Help & Support, and About. Overview keeps Finish Setup, Account and Pro, and menu bar controls together without repeating that list.

When Privacy opens Your contributions or Your reports, or Help & Support opens Contact support, the nested page appears in the detail area. Its back button returns within that area and the Settings sidebar stays available.

Settings groups plan, daily behavior, and data controls into named sections you can scan quickly.

Find the right section

Logging Defaults

Set starting sprays, status, occasion, and shelf for new records.

Display

Choose collection layout, density, sort, currency, units, appearance, launch tab, and price visibility.

Today Pick

Choose how the daily recommendation rotates through eligible fragrances.

Behavior

Set evening timing, shelf low-stock threshold, and the resting window.

Notifications

Manage morning, next-day rating, and Pro wear-session reminders, with a warning when system permission still needs attention.

Weather

Allow current conditions to be attached when you log a wear.

Data and Sync

Choose Local Only or iCloud Sync and review sync status.

Device Storage

Review offline content and measured downloads, clear rebuildable data, or manage the optional enhanced remover.

Backup & Export

Create a full backup, work with CSV files, or export a calendar file.

Calendar & Planning

Sync diary events and get Pro suggestions for upcoming plans.

Privacy

Manage App Lock, Spotlight, and optional community sharing.

Account and Pro

The account area shows your current plan and a Subscription row. Use it to upgrade, manage the App Store subscription, or restore a purchase.

Pro follows the App Store account used for the purchase, not the iCloud account used for journal sync. See Pro Subscription.

The same area shows your remaining Read Bottle trial. The free allowance is 3 scans in total, not 3 per month. Pro includes unlimited scans. See Read Bottle.

Logging Defaults

These values prefill future records:

Setting	What it changes
Default sprays	Starting sprays for a new wear
New scent status	Owned, Tried, or Wishlist when adding a fragrance
Default occasion	Starting occasion for a diary entry
Default shelf	Shelf offered for a newly added fragrance

You can change any value in the individual record before saving it.

Display

Display includes Collection layout, list density, gallery card size, Collection sort, currency, bottle-size units, appearance, launch tab, and Hide Prices.

Changing currency or units changes the label only. It does not convert previously entered numbers. Mixed currencies are not added into a false total.

Hide Prices masks saved amounts across fragrance details, comparisons, Collection and Wardrobe value views, the Scent Atlas Value lens, personal dupe cards, CSV exports, and applicable share cards. Turning it on does not delete any price.

Today Pick

Choose how Today’s pick rotates through fragrances you can currently wear. Free presets cover balanced rotation, fair rotation, rediscovery, favorites, and surprise. Pro adds specialized strategies and a custom builder.

The custom choices can combine priorities, eligibility filters, and rotation breadth. The selected strategy and its configuration follow your journal when iCloud Sync is on.

See Today Pick Strategies for the strategies and eligibility rules.

Behavior

• Evening start controls when Today changes to its evening presentation.
• Low stock sets the remaining-percentage threshold used by shelf stock views. The default is 15 percent.
• Resting window controls how long a fragrance must go unworn before rediscovery views treat it as resting.

The shelf Low stock setting is separate from the fixed container running-low rule used by Finish the bottle. See Containers and Stock.

Mac menu bar

On Mac, choose whether the Orrique bottle appears in the menu bar and whether Orrique opens at login. The menu bar bottle offers quick access to today’s wear and common actions, remains available after the main window closes, and loads bottle artwork without moving the open panel. See Mac App.

Notifications

The Notifications page shows system permission and the reminder choices:

• Morning scent prompt
• Next-day rating reminder
• Wear session reminders with Pro
• Silent reminders

Reminder preferences can sync, but notification permission and scheduled delivery remain local to each device. If permission is denied, use Open Settings to change it in System Settings.

When at least one reminder is enabled, the Settings summary says Checking permission while the device status loads. It then says Permission needed or Permission denied if the device cannot currently deliver it. The summary refreshes after an in-app permission choice and after you return from System Settings.

Weather

Turn on Fill weather automatically to attach current conditions to new wears. Orrique requests location permission on that device. It saves the conditions with the entry, not your precise location.

Data and Sync

Choose Local Only for a journal stored on this device or iCloud Sync to keep it current across your Apple devices. Orrique shows preparation progress and keeps the picker on the active storage until the requested backend is ready.

The page also shows the active mode, record counts, real iCloud activity, Check for synced changes, queued supporting changes, and any recovery choices that need you. See iCloud and Sync for the full workflow.

Check the active storage

The Storage on this device row confirms which backend is active. If a switch cannot finish safely, Orrique keeps the previous storage and picker selection active and offers Retry Storage Switch.

Device Storage

Device Storage separates your offline collection from data Orrique can download again. It shows measured catalog data and text search, images, semantic search, lookup, diagnostic, Share Studio, and optional background-removal storage.

Use Clear Rebuildable Downloads to remove public catalog downloads and temporary caches without removing your collection, diary, manual entries, saved photos, backups, pending changes, or Share Studio images. Orrique installs only its verified pinned enhanced remover. Older unverified compiled caches may need one redownload after updating, while standard background removal remains available.

See Device Storage and Offline Use for measured catalog storage, bounded supporting caches, offline guarantees, and Apple-managed system assets.

Backup & Export

This row opens full backup, CSV import and export, and Pro calendar-file export. A full backup is unencrypted and may be extractable by anyone with the file. Orrique prepares current backups as versioned file-backed archives and still accepts the earlier format written by previous Orrique releases for iOS 26. Importing one replaces the current journal after a preview and confirmation. CSV import only adds new matches and does not replace the journal.

See Backup and Export before importing a file.

Calendar & Planning

Calendar & Planning is a Pro area with two separate opt-ins:

• Diary Calendar creates or reuses an Orrique Diary calendar and keeps it matched to your wears.
• Upcoming Plans reads permitted upcoming events on the device and suggests scents from your eligible collection.

You control event detail, calendar sources, eligible formats, ignored words, reminder timing, and planned-wear privacy. A suggestion does not add a diary entry until you save a log.

On Mac, choosing an available scent from Planned Wears opens that fragrance in the main Orrique window. The Settings window stays open for further changes.

Calendar access, calendar identifiers, excluded sources, and pending notification requests stay local to each device. See Calendar Sync and Planning for the planning surface and Backup and Export for calendar export.

Privacy

Privacy contains:

• App Lock, which protects the on-screen app after it has been in the background
• Include diary in Spotlight search
• optional community performance sharing
• optional shared-catalog contributions
• links to Your contributions and Your reports when those records exist

App Lock is a screen barrier, not file encryption, and it is configured separately on each device. See Privacy and App Lock and Community and Contributions.

Help & Support

Help & Support opens the help center, troubleshooting, FAQ, What’s New, and Contact support. On iPhone and iPad, guides open in the built-in reader. On Mac, they open in the browser.

Support conversations and attachments are saved safely on the device before background delivery. On iPhone and iPad, choosing a photo opens the full-screen system Photo Library and returns you to the same support form after selection or cancellation. A pending or failed send remains visible so you can retry. See Contact Support.

About

About shows the app version and links to the Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Contact Support.

What syncs

Many preferences follow the journal with iCloud Sync, including appearance, launch tab, Hide Prices, Today layout and strategy, behavior thresholds, Collection layout and sort, units, logging defaults, currency, and community choices.

Device permissions, App Lock, Spotlight, calendar identifiers, and notification scheduling stay local because each device grants those separately.

iCloud and SyncChoose storage, refresh devices, and resolve conflicts.

Device StorageReview offline content, bounded downloads, and the optional remover.

Privacy and App LockUnderstand the privacy controls and their limits.

Free vs ProSee every plan requirement in one place.