Making the interface simpler or fuller
Simple, Standard and Advanced. What changes across the three levels, who each one suits, and how to switch.
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You choose how much information the app shows. There are three levels, and the difference is in what you see: in Simple the interface is pared down, and the hands-on round in tutorials and achievements are hidden. No measurement stops at any level.
Simple
On the home screen, just Start with a short sentence above it. Tutorials are short. In the session report, a score and a single sentence.
The summary screens get simpler too: they say what you did, and there is less interpretation.
In Simple, quick start comes on by default on the phone, and on the watch too if you have an Apple Watch: tap Start and you begin with the technique and length suggested for you, without going through the picker. If you don't want it, turn it off in Settings. A switch you turn off stays off.
Who it suits: people who want the app purely as a breathing exercise, people who don't want to deal with numbers, and older users.
Standard
The balanced one. Tutorials, the hands-on round, the detailed report, achievements and summaries.
In the report, measurements and suggestions appear next to your score, and Detailed report takes you deeper.
This is the one suggested for most people.
Advanced
Everything open. All the technical lines in the report (inhale level, exhale peak level, variation within the exhale), every section of the summary screens, and — under the length slider — why the range is where it is.
Who it suits: people who enjoy reading measurements, and people who want to track what is changing in their breathing.
How to change it
Profile → Settings → Interface. It changes instantly, nothing is lost, and you can go back whenever you like.
You are asked in the intake too. If you are over sixty-five, Simple is marked there as the suggested one. Pick whatever you want.
The reminder on the home screen
The sentence above the Start button on the home screen sometimes points you to another level: depending on where you are, it suggests a more detailed or a simpler one.
The opening and the technique picker
In Simple the app's opening is short (Settings → Appearance → Short launch). You can turn it off, and a switch you turn off stays off. In Advanced the technique picker shows each technique's longer description without tapping the card.
The look is a separate thing
Don't confuse the interface level with Appearance. Appearance is about the screen's colours: a dynamic background that changes with the day and the season, the light theme, the dark theme, or following the system. It is also in Settings, on a separate row. How the dynamic background works is covered in its own article.