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Settings and automation

Menu ☰ → Settings. Each switch has a line under it that says what it does.

Menu ☰ → Settings has a short list of switches. Each has a sentence underneath saying what it changes.

Tip on startup: one short tip each time you open the app. If you tapped “Stop showing tips”, this is where you turn them back on.

Review new objects: when a new photo, contact or calendar entry appears, Buckets offers to add it to a bucket. “Remind me later” keeps the suggestion for next time; “Dismiss” stops future prompts for those objects.

Automatic indexing: off means Buckets stops scanning your phone, and you only see what it already indexed.

Fill buckets automatically: off by default. When this is on, Buckets files objects it can classify with confidence without asking. Other objects remain in Sort Objects. Buckets reports each action, and “Undo” reverses it.

Daily summary: off by default. When this is on, Buckets shows one notification each morning when relevant information is available, such as a birthday, an upcoming event or photos from the same date in an earlier year. The phone asks for notification permission the first time.

Language: Buckets follows your phone’s language. Select a language here, or “Same as my phone”. The names you typed are never translated.

Permissions: “Open phone permissions” opens your phone’s own settings for Buckets at any time. That is where access to contacts, photos, calendar and location is turned on or off, whether or not it was ever refused.

The same screen shows the welcome screens or the instructions again at any time, and saves a copy of your buckets to a file.

Daily summaries are scheduled a week ahead, so they arrive each morning even with the app closed. Opening the app recalculates the week from what is on your phone at the time.