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Advanced Settings

Adjust advanced Procreate settings under the hood in the iPad Settings app.

You can adjust most settings from inside Procreate. Some settings are fundamental to how Procreate’s touch responses interact with iOS. To adjust these you need to head to the iOS setting for Procreate. Tap Actions → Help → Advanced Settings to go to iOS Settings. From here you can adjust these core functions.

Allow Access

Toggle which iPadOS apps Procreate can access.

Allow or deny Procreate access to Photos app, Bluetooth, the inbuilt camera, Siri, and Document Storage.

Some of these permissions are important to Procreate's functionality. For example, you will not be able to export an image from Procreate into Photos without allowing access. You can toggle access off and on anytime in Advanced Settings.

Procreate Settings

Tweak basic Procreate functionality.

Canvas Orientation Memory

Switch this on to make Procreate remember which way you left your canvas oriented.

Fit Canvas Inside Interface

Toggle whether you prefer your canvas to be overlaid by Procreate’s interface or to fit inside it.

Disable Time-Lapse

This toggle turns Time-lapse Video recording for your creations on or off.

Simplified Undos

Toggle whether Undo remembers steps within modes separately, or combined them into a single step. An example of this would be if you perform a series of Transformations on selected content. If you then commit those transformations, Procreate can remember every individual step of the process. Or, it can also remember only the outcome of the transformation.

Simplified Undos are on by default. This means Procreate doesn’t remember individual steps within a mode. This allows you to reach further back when performing Undo.

Maximum Speed Distance

Determine the distance a stroke must travel before its Speed registers as 100%. If you find that brushes with speed-based settings are too sudden or sluggish for you. This is the setting to try changing for better results.

Drag and Drop Export

Set the preferred file format and image format for Drag-and-Drop exports.