Settings
One sheet holding every preference in the app that isn't a practice tool in its own right — appearance, permissions, recording defaults, and the rest.
Settings isn't a screen you navigate to — it's a sheet. Tap the avatar circle in Home's top-right corner and it slides up over whatever you were doing, holds everything, and dismisses back to exactly where you left off. Same shape as the sibling apps' Settings page, group for group, with a few rows that are Drum Buddha's own.
Appearance
One row: the theme picker, subtitled Choose your palette. Four themes to tap between — Strata, Terra, Obsidian, and Sand. Terra is the default.
Playing
One row: Skill level — Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, or Returning, the same four options from onboarding. Changing it here doesn't lock anything in or out; it just changes what the app suggests.
Permissions
One row: Microphone, with a live status next to it — Allowed or Tap to allow. It reflects the real iOS permission state each time you open Settings, not a cached guess from onboarding. Microphone access is what capturing audio in Ideas and recording a Jam take both depend on, so if either one is greyed out elsewhere in the app, this is the row to check.
Recording
Four rows here, all tied to what happens when you actually capture something:
- Count-in before recording, a toggle. Subtitle: Play a 3-2-1 count-in before a Jam take starts. Turn it off and a take starts cold, on the downbeat, no warning.
- Audio quality, a static row reading High (256 kbps) — nothing to change here, just a statement of what you're getting.
- Storage used, a live figure computed from your takes and ideas — it grows and shrinks as you record and delete, rather than reporting the app's total footprint.
- Recently Deleted, a row that opens its own list.
Recently Deleted is the same safety net as every sibling app. A deleted take or idea doesn't vanish immediately — it sits here for 30 days, with a per-item Restore or delete-now choice, before it's gone for good.
Accessibility
One toggle: Reduced motion, subtitled Minimize pulsing indicators and loading animations. Useful if the beat dots and loading states elsewhere in the app are more distraction than help.
Support
One row: Tip jar, subtitled Every feature is free — tips help keep it that way. Nothing in Drum Buddha is gated behind it; it's just there if you want to leave one.
Privacy
One toggle: Help improve Drum Buddha, off by default. Subtitle: Share anonymous usage analytics. Off by default. Leave it off and nothing about how the app behaves changes.
About
Four links: Website, Contact, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Service — the standard set.
Credits
Scroll to the very bottom and there's a credits footer, easy to skip past but worth reading once. Drum Buddha's kit sounds come from two open sources: AVL Drumkits (CC-BY-SA 3.0) and FreePats Synthesizer Percussion (CC0). Real acknowledgment for real recordings, sitting right next to the app's version number.
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