Settings reference
The Settings tab gathers every preference plus your installed regions and
the data-sources page.
A segmented bar across the top splits the screen into six tabs so you can
jump straight to the family of preferences you want instead of scrolling:
3D models, map chrome (auto-centre, seamark density, GPS track precision, Layer
Defaults & Zoom), Sea Sports recording, Passage 3D & sea simulation,
screen-wake policy, track style, tile-fetching engine, AIS traffic.
permissions, Apple Watch, alarm sound + test, GPS tracking mode, power
consumption, Backup & Sync, privacy, Help & Manuals, and the About
card with your live build number).
route parameters, waypoint options, voyage / TSS alarms, the shallow-water
alarm, live GPS status, and Simulator Mode.
Wi-Fi gateway, or a Bluetooth pod, plus live diagnostics.
noon report, cloud sync, export), on-device storage stats, your
[installed chart regions](#regions), Data Sources & Partners, and opt-in
remote services (e.g. NHC tropical cyclones with a Test connection button).
Backup & Sync is not here — it lives under the Safe Anchor tab.
Units (region Auto-Match, preset and per-quantity overrides), Help,
App Reviews and the About SeaTracker card.
The sidebar's Sections list jumps straight to six of the most-used
sections — see [Sidebar shortcuts](#sidebar-sections).
Sections within each tab, in the order you see them:
Chart Appearance
The Chart tab's only appearance control is one toggle:
between its day and night variants automatically as your device's
light/dark appearance setting changes. Turn it off to keep whichever
palette you picked regardless of the system theme.
The base map style and the depth color palette are not set here.
They live in the in-chart Chart Layers → Maps panel — open the chart,
tap the layers control, and pick from the day/night map and palette grids.
See Chart layers.
Chart updates
Under the Chart tab, right below Chart Appearance.
installed charts on Wi-Fi or 5G: never over 4G/LTE, a personal
hotspot or a Low Data Mode network. Downloads continue with the screen
locked or AnchorQueen in the background, and finish on their own. An
update waits while an anchor watch or route guidance is active and
installs when it ends. If you swipe AnchorQueen away in the app
switcher, downloads stop until the next time you open it. See
Automatic updates on Wi-Fi and 5G.
connection as well as Wi-Fi. Turn it off to update on Wi-Fi only; an
update already downloading on 5G then pauses until you are on Wi-Fi.
While an update runs, a slim [chart-transfer
strip](basic-ui.html#chart-transfer-strip) at the bottom of every screen
shows its progress.
is switched on for testers. Staging shows chart releases before they
reach everyone, and the Store header shows a STAGING badge while it is
on.
3D models
Under the Chart tab, right below Chart updates. The 3D vessels, AIS
ships, marina props, sea-sports gear and landmarks you see in Live,
Passage 3D and on the chart come in five packs — Fleet, AIS
Vessels, Marina, Sea Sports and Iconic landmarks. Every app
version brings its own copy; when a newer pack is published, AnchorQueen
downloads it for free and uses it instead. A sixth pack, Race yachts,
is download-only: until it arrives its row reads Not downloaded and
racing yachts are drawn as cruising boats (Live races).
same networks as [chart updates](#chart-updates): Wi-Fi, or 5G unless you
turned off Also update on 5G. A new pack installs once no anchor
watch, route guidance or recording is active, and appears the next time
Live or Passage 3D opens (sprites on the chart: the next time the chart
redraws them).
and look now.
the app) or Downloaded (with its size), and a status: Up to date,
Update available, Downloading n%, Update ready (waiting for a
safe moment), Needs app update (the pack needs a newer AnchorQueen; the
app's own models stay in use) or Failed — retry.
in your language and the models it adds or changes.
connection.
testers: Staging shows packs before they reach everyone.
Updating AnchorQueen itself always brings models at least as new as the ones
you downloaded; an older download is then removed on its own.
Units & Measurement
Lives in the Units section of the General tab, under Language:
Depth and Temp pills. It shows Auto-Matched while your units
follow your region's preset; once they differ, an Auto-Match button
appears — tap it to put every unit back on your region's preset (this
clears any per-quantity overrides).
that sets every quantity at once to a coherent system. Changing any single
unit switches it to Custom. Maritime convention is preserved in every
preset: distance defaults to nautical miles and speed to knots.
pickers when you need to override the preset: Depth, Distance,
Short distance, Speed, Wave height, Air temperature,
Water temperature, Pressure, Vessel dimensions, Anchor
rode / chain, Volume, and Coordinates.
The same controls are also on the Captain tab: Edit Profile → Language &
Units shows the preset and a glance at your units, and Customise per
quantity there opens this full editor as a sheet. Both places change the
same setting.
On a fresh install the preset follows your iPhone's region: a US region
starts in feet, °F, inHg and US gallons; a UK region in the Imperial (UK)
preset; everywhere else in metric. Change it once and the app keeps your
choice through updates.
Every other tab and overlay follows these settings — the anchor watch and
its alarm notifications, the Meteo dashboard and meteogram, the tides
dashboard, the Helm depth and fuel charts, printed logbooks and passage
plans, and the chart's sounding labels. Clock readouts follow your
iPhone's 12-hour / 24-hour setting.
App Language
language AnchorQueen's screens and Jules' answers are written in. It is the
same setting as Preferred Language in Captain → Edit Profile: change
either and the other follows. The app ships 13 languages: English, Türkçe,
Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español, Ελληνικά, Hrvatski, Português,
Svenska, Norsk bokmål, Dansk, and Suomi. Each is listed in its own script so
you can spot your language even when the current one is unfamiliar.
to override it just inside AnchorQueen.
States region, English reads harbor, color, license and draft;
everywhere else it keeps harbour, colour, licence and draught. This
holds whether you leave System Default or pick English by hand.
screens only switch to the new language on the next launch. Number, date, and
unit formatting update immediately.
Navigation
The Navigation section sits at the top of the General tab. The two map
preferences that follow live on the Chart tab, in its Map section.
you prefer. Tap the row to open the Tab Order editor, then hold the
handle on the right of any tab and drag it up or down. The tab bar
updates the moment you lift your finger. Tap Reset in the top-right
corner to restore the factory order. Your arrangement is saved
automatically and survives app restarts. See
on your boat.
boat must move before a new point is recorded (3–30 m); the label reads
High, Balanced or Low. Lower precision means fewer points,
smaller tracks and less battery. (The 6-minute course predictor is a chart
layer, not a setting — see Chart Layers.) With the screen off the app never records finer than 10 m
regardless of the slider; the slider can only make it coarser.
Vessel Profile
> Set up from your boat card. The first time you save a boat card, the
> app fills this screen in from it: your LOA is converted from the
> length you entered, and draft, beam and safety margin start as those of a
> typical boat that size and type. Your length is your own figure — the
> draft is not, and two boats of the same length can differ by more than a
> metre. Check the draft here before relying on depth warnings, route
> planning or anchoring advice. Once you change anything on this screen the
values are yours, and the app never overwrites them again.
Under the Nav tab. These four numbers describe the hull itself, and they
are the ones the rest of the app measures water against.
50ft, Sailboat 55ft) to fill all four fields at once. Change any field
afterwards and the picker reads Custom. A preset replaces the dimensions
only — your boat's name, hull type, cruise speed and pin colour are kept.
chart and how far the anchor swing circle reaches beyond
the rode.
squat and tidal uncertainty.
planning refuses anything shallower, and soundings below it paint red on
the chart.
Air draft, cruise speed and fuel burn are not on this tab. They are
class figures — filled in from your boat card's class and length, and edited
on the Captain tab's Vessel card, which is also the one place that says
whether a number is the class default or your own. See
Your vessel's specs. Cruise speed is the
starting point for every ETA in the app, but only until AnchorQueen has
watched you sail: once you have finished three or more passages, the app
uses your measured average speed over the last twelve of them instead,
because what the boat actually does beats what was typed once. A route
always keeps its own speed override, so a delivery under motor does not
rewrite your average.
It is your active boat's card you are editing. When a boat is active on
the Captain tab, the section header names it
(Isle of cats · Catamaran) and every figure you change here is written to
that boat's own specs a moment later — the same numbers the Captain tab's
Vessel card shows, so the two screens can never disagree. Switch boats on
the Captain tab and this screen switches with it. With no boat registered
the screen simply keeps a single set of numbers for the app, exactly as
before.
There is no save step. Each field is stored the moment you change it, and
one set of numbers feeds every consumer: route planning, sounding colours, the
shallow-water alarm below, your boat's icon, and anchor swing. If you use
Backup & Sync, edits travel to your other devices with everything else.
Depth Grid on the same section is status, not a setting — it names the
chart region currently loaded for depth-aware routing, or reads Not loaded
when you have no region installed for where you are.
Safety Alarms
Under the Nav tab, alongside the voyage alarms:
alarms (COLREGS Rule 10) warn when you approach, cross at the wrong angle,
run against the flow, or anchor inside a scheme; advisory cases raise an
amber banner, violations a red one. The banner always shows. OS
Notifications (on by default) adds a notification while the app is in the
background; Approach Ring (3 NM, 5 NM or 10 NM) sets how far
out the approach warning starts.
too little water under your keel. Uses your boat's draft from the
[Vessel Profile](#vessel-profile) on this same tab. Off by default.
This alarm is visual only — a red on-screen banner, no sound. *(Moved
here from the Safe Anchor tab.)*
clearance below which the alarm fires: 0.5 m by default, up to 5 m in 0.5 m
steps, shown in your depth unit. While the alarm is active, Silence
(30m) mutes it for 30 minutes; Resume ends the silence early.
Screen
while AnchorQueen is open. A navigation app is useless if the chart
goes dark mid-passage, so AnchorQueen lets you opt out of the standard
auto-lock without changing your device-wide setting.
a route, record a passage, keep anchor watch or run a sea sports
session. This is the default: ideal for a phone or iPad cradled on a
12 V outlet at the helm, while a handheld in your pocket — or a phone
left charging at home with none of those running — still sleeps.
foreground. Best for long legs where the device is permanently
powered; expect heavier battery drain otherwise.
Backgrounding the app always restores normal sleep behaviour, so the
device can rest between sessions regardless of which mode you pick.
When the phone gets hot (in direct sun, or charging under load), the
screen is allowed to sleep again whatever the mode, so the phone can
cool down; anchor watch and recording keep running with the screen off.
Track Style
Under the Chart tab, below Screen Wake. A live preview at the top
of the section redraws as you change any control, so you can see the result
before you leave Settings.
line shades from slow to fast along the track).
colour ramp across each passage's own min–max speed; Fixed uses a
constant 0–12 kn scale so colours mean the same speed on every track.
recent run stands out.
Auto-record passages at sea *(also on the Chart tab, in the Map
section)* — one switch for every kind of automatic recording. On by
default: AnchorQueen records automatically when you're underway — on a
planned voyage or free sailing — and saves the passage when you anchor or
go ashore. Turn it off and recording is yours alone, on the REC button.
Save reels to Photos — on by default. A finished reel — of a passage, a route, an anchorage or a seamark — lands in
your Photos library on its own, ready for Instagram, Edits and the share
sheet; the one-time Photos prompt appears the first time a reel is ready.
Off, the reel stays in the app until you share it (sending it to Instagram
or Edits saves it then, because those apps take the clip from the library).
This replaces the separate Auto-record voyages switch of earlier
versions; the two asked you to tell a "voyage" from a "passage", which is
not a distinction the app makes anywhere else. If you had deliberately
turned the old switch off, the merged one starts off too. See
Sea Sports
Under the Chart tab, after Map. These choices shape how a Sea
Sports session records — all seventeen sports, from jet ski and kitesurf
to dinghy, rowing and open-water swimming. A change applies from the next
session; a session already running keeps the settings it started with.
Starting, riding and reviewing a session is in
record: paired, AnchorQueen installed, connected. It also shows sessions
waiting to sync from the watch and the last sync time, and offers
Open the Watch app when pairing or installing is the fix. See
uses when it doesn't name one. Ask each time (the default) opens the
default — your iPhone's GPS gives about one position a second), every 2
seconds or every 5 seconds. A normal passage keeps far fewer points; a
Sea Sports session keeps them all so turns and jumps show up in the track.
Automatic (the default) picks the rate for the sport: 100 Hz for
speed, wind and wave sports (jet ski, eFoil, kitesurf, wingfoil,
windsurf, surf), 50 Hz for towed sports, 25 Hz for sailing, paddling,
rowing and swimming. You can fix it at 25, 50 or 100 Hz. Higher
rates catch sharper turns and jumps and use more battery.
phone loose in a pocket or dry bag records bumps as jumps; choose
High to catch small hops and soft landings — it works best with the
phone strapped tight or on Apple Watch. Sailing, paddling, rowing and
swimming sessions never record jumps. Sessions recorded on Apple Watch always use
High, whatever is set here.
height on long jumps. The first time it is used, iOS asks for Motion &
Fitness access; if you decline, sessions still record without it.
track when the session ends, as a passage is. That takes less storage
but smooths out tight turns.
(the default) or 30 minutes without moving, or Off.
kept: 7, 30 (the default) or 90 days, or Forever. Jumps, turns, the
wind and the track are always kept; only the raw readings are removed.
While you ride, AnchorQueen picks out each jump (airtime, height,
distance), each turn (how fast you turned, the sideways g-force and the
radius), your top speed and peak g-force, and — in a dinghy, a
kayak, a canoe, a rowing boat or on a paddleboard — a capsize. Surf
sessions count each wave you ride; dinghy sessions count tacks and
gybes and the maximum heel; paddling, rowing and swimming measure
your stroke rate. Every jump stores the wind at that moment:
from your boat's wind instrument if it has one, otherwise the forecast at
your position, refreshed every 10 minutes. Height is calculated from the
airtime; on long kite jumps the barometer can raise it, because the kite
carries you higher than a plain jump would.
During a Sea Sports session the GPS runs at full precision even with the
app in the background or Low Power Mode on, and automatic passage
recording stays out of the way: it never starts or stops a Sea Sports
session.
Tile Engine
Under the Chart tab, at the bottom. Picks how chart tiles are fetched:
→ network cache, using pre-downloaded offline tiles when available. The
right choice for offline use.
built-in HTTP engine, with no offline cache support.
A caption under the picker spells out the trade-off for whichever engine is
selected.
AIS Traffic
Under the Chart tab, below Tile Engine. Read-only — it tells you how live
ship traffic is reaching this iPhone right now. You don't choose this; the app
does, per session, and it can change while you're under way.
its AIS partner, Open Waters, shared by the whole fleet, so this iPhone
doesn't open one of its own. This is the best case: one connection serves
everybody instead of one per device.
exactly as it always has, but it uses the key built into the app, which every
copy of AnchorQueen shares.
stored, so you have three connections nobody else is sharing. See
connections are all taken. Adding a key of your own fixes it immediately.
aisstream.io account allows are in use: another device on the same key, or
a connection that dropped without closing and that the service has not
released yet. Close AnchorQueen on your other devices and try again in a
while.
Layers.
The shared connection needs you to be signed in with Pro or Max.
Otherwise AnchorQueen uses the direct connection instead — live traffic keeps
working either way, and you never have to do anything about it. If the shared
connection is unavailable for any reason, the app falls back on its own and the
ships keep coming.
AIS Settings in this section opens the full AIS screen, described next.
AIS Settings
Open it from Settings → Chart → AIS Traffic → AIS Settings, or from the
sliders button on the source card at the top of the
receivers, open government feeds and AISHub. Website, Live map and
API open the partner's pages. If AnchorQueen pauses the partner feed, a
note says so and AIS continues on the standard connection.
arriving via partner, the age of the last fix, and how many vessels
the last snapshot of your view returned. Below them, the connection in
use and why (the same wording as [AIS Traffic](#ais-traffic)), and which
service feeds the shared connection, this device and the instant snapshot.
with its count, its coverage and the credit its licence requires. Tap a
source to open its website.
already knows in view appears as soon as you open the chart, with its
source. Off, the chart shows only what the live connection delivers.
The display filters (moored, length, age) are in
IMO and size vessels broadcast, with the network that heard them. Never
positions, never anything about you.
AIS is for situational awareness only — not for navigation or collision
avoidance. Positions from internet networks can be a minute or more behind.
Waypoint Naming
your saved marks read like "Turtle Cove" instead of coordinates.
Cluster behavior
no effect in this version: the Voyage cluster it moved is gone. Voyage's
commands now sit in the command panel, and anchoring
from the chart is on your boat's command menu.
Installed Regions
On the Data tab, right below Storage, the Chart Regions area
lists every chart region installed on this device,
grouped by cruising ground — Mediterranean, Northern Europe, United States,
Mexico, Caribbean, Pacific, East Asia, Worldwide. The groups, their order, and
the country flags on each row match the Store → Charts
catalog, so a pack sits under the same heading wherever you look at it.
Get More Regions opens at the top of the area and jumps to
Store → Charts. With nothing installed, the area reads
No offline regions installed and keeps both links below.
Each row shows:
data on the map without deleting anything; turn it back on to show it
again. It is the same switch as the one on the region's card in
Store → Charts → My Maps — flipping either one moves both.
NOAA), and the size on disk.
missing from this chart region or Chart region couldn't be opened*.
Reinstall that region from the Store.
Updating or deleting a region happens in
Store → Charts → My Maps, not here.
Browse Region Data (at the bottom of the area) opens a low-level
inspector for the installed data — region manifests, NavGrid files, and
MBTiles metadata. Double-tap any file to inspect it. It's a diagnostic
surface; you don't need it for everyday use.
Safe Anchor (Anchor Watch Settings)
The Safe Anchor tab now hosts the full Anchor Watch settings inline —
no longer a separate sheet. From top to bottom: the Launch section (see
below), Permissions status, the Alarm section (Alarm Sound,
Test Alarm Sound), the Advanced section — GPS Tracking Mode
(Real Time vs. Moving Average) and Power Consumption (Balanced
vs. Highest) —
Backup & Sync (see [#backup](#backup)), the Privacy section (see
[#privacy](#privacy)), Help & Manuals, and the About card. See
SafeAnchor for what each does.
button that opens iOS Settings. The card closes with a standing reminder
that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically
decrease battery life: AnchorQueen keeps the GPS awake only while an anchor
watch, voyage recording, or active navigation is running.
Radar screen — the classic anchor alarm —
every time it starts. Handy if you use AnchorQueen primarily as an anchor
alarm. This wins over the tab you were last on: with the setting off,
the app resumes wherever you left it (see
where the app opens); with it on, every
launch is Radar. (When an anchor watch was armed at your last session,
the app returns to SafeAnchor regardless of this setting.)
Gothic, Imperial, Melodical or Alarm (the default). Each
plays once as you tap it, and a ✓ marks your choice. The in-app siren and
the alarm notification both use it.
the 5-second countdown lock the phone and switch it to silent (or turn
on a Focus). The test alarm must still sound — that is the
Critical Alert doing its job. If it stays silent,
enable iOS Settings → Notifications → AnchorQueen → Critical Alerts.
Run this once before trusting the watch overnight.
Privacy
Two opt-out switches, both on by default, both effective immediately —
no restart, no sign-in required:
the fault can be found and fixed.
for: which tabs you open, whether an anchor watch was armed and for how
long, whether a route solved, whether a chart download finished. Never
your position, your boat, your name, your messages to Jules, or anything
you typed. Continuous numbers (a swing radius, a passage length) are
reported as ranges, not exact values.
Turning Usage Analytics off stops collection and clears the
identifiers already stored on the device. Nothing in the app behaves
differently with either switch off — no feature is gated on them.
Your device's own record. The first time you do something the app has to
remember — arm an anchor watch, open the Store — it creates an anonymous
record for this device so that usage can be counted without knowing who you
are. It holds the app version, your device model, your language and the
plan you are on. It never holds your position, your boat, your name or your
email. If you later create an account, that record simply becomes yours, so
nothing you did beforehand is lost. With Usage Analytics off, the record
is never created at all.
Help & Manuals and About
The last two sections of the Safe Anchor tab, after Privacy:
Manual link, both opening in your browser, and Report Abuse & Safety
Support, which opens an email to support.
installed version and build number — quote these to support), and, where
ad consent is required (mainly EEA/UK), a Manage Ad Consent button that
reopens the consent dialog so you can change your choice.
The shallow-water alarm now lives under the Nav tab (see
[Safety Alarms](#safety-alarms)), and the Instruments data source moved to
its own [NMEA](#instruments) sub-tab.
Simulator Mode
Override your real GPS with a position you drop on the chart — useful for
demos, planning a passage from the dock, or testing the anchor watch
without leaving the marina.
Under the Nav tab, in its Simulator section.
simulated vessel appears at the chart centre (or where you left it — see
Remember Last Position) and the helm console opens over the chart.
a planned route. The simulator starts at the route's first waypoint and the
autopilot sails the route at its planned speed. See Route.
carries an orange Simulator row: in portrait it tucks the console away
and brings it back; in landscape it ends the simulation.
you left it after any movement) is restored the next time you enable
Simulator Mode. When off, each session starts fresh at the map centre.
On the chart a helm console opens over the chart. Your boat appears with
its name and symbol, drawn to its real length the same way AIS
traffic is — so a large vessel reads bigger than a small one and scales
with zoom (dimensions come from your vessel profile).
The console lets you:
on an inner arc, so the boat eases up to speed like a real hull rather than
jumping. Double-tap the dial for All stop.
turn the course to steer; Steady holds the current heading.
previous or next waypoint while it is engaged.
the passage unfold. It starts off, so the console never yanks the chart
away from what you were looking at.
In portrait you can drag the console by its top grip to anywhere on the
chart, and the chevron in its header minimizes it to a slim speed bar;
tap it again to re-open the full console.
> Simulator Mode replaces your position everywhere — the chart, the GPS
> HUD, track recording, and the anchor watch all follow the simulated boat.
> Your compass heading stays real — only the position is faked. Turn it
off to return to live GPS.
Passage 3D & sea simulation
These settings control the 3D replay — the cinematic flyover of a recorded
passage, a route or an anchorage.
3D Page Source decides where the 3D view itself comes from. The same
3D page is published two ways, and either can be the newer one:
always available and needs no connection, and it is the version this release
was tested against. This is the default.
gain improvements before an app update reaches you, but it needs a
connection — if it cannot be reached, AnchorQueen falls back to the included
page by itself.
The change takes effect the next time you open a replay, not while one is on
screen. If a replay ever looks older or plainer than you expect, check this
setting first: In App and Online can legitimately differ for a while
after either an app update or a website update.
Sea Simulation Quality sets how much detail goes into the water, from
Low to Ultra. Higher settings ask more of the GPU and drain the battery
faster. Reels are filmed at the quality you pick here — Ultra if you have
never changed it.
Default Sea State is what a replay opens with — Off for flat water,
Real Weather for the conditions recorded on the passage, or a fixed
Beaufort force.
Automatic power saving. You do not need to change anything to keep your phone cool. The 3D replay plays at a smooth, battery-friendly frame rate, stops drawing within about twenty seconds of pausing, and stops completely while it is hidden or AnchorQueen is in the background. When your phone gets warm, or Low Power Mode is on, it switches by itself to a lighter mode — a slightly softer picture and fewer spray and rain particles — and switches back once the phone has cooled down. Reels you export are always rendered at full quality.
NMEA — Instruments
The NMEA sub-tab is the instrument
data source. By default AnchorQueen reads your position from the device's
Built-in GPS. If your boat has NMEA instruments, point the app at them here
to get masthead wind, a depth sounder, and a fixed-mount GPS.
needed; the right choice for most phones and tablets.
gateway that broadcasts NMEA sentences.
the SafeAnchor guide for the full walkthrough.
192.168.4.1) and Port (default 10110; Signal K servers use 3000).
advertising themselves on the boat network, or type the host and port. Try
Test Server connects to the public demo server immediately so you can see
the link working with no boat hardware.
Signal K Position (use the server's own-vessel fix as the chart and
SafeAnchor live position), Use TLS (wss) (leave off for a boat-network
server), and Access Token for a server with security switched on.
Signal K Position is off by default. When enabled, device GPS automatically
resumes if the server delivers no valid position for 30 seconds.
your pod in the list to select it. Bluetooth instruments share no
common standard, so just pick your device and tap Apply & Connect.
dropout. Shown for the NMEA sources only.
Wind, and the last NMEA sentence so you can confirm data is flowing.
depth (labelled with what it is measured from), wind with its angle and
whether it is true or apparent, speed through water, sea temperature, and
how long ago the last update arrived. These update as the data arrives.
can see what went wrong without a computer aboard.
> NMEA data needs a Wi-Fi gateway, Bluetooth pod, or Signal K server on your
boat. With none of those, keep Built-in GPS.
For model-specific addresses, ports, capability limits, and setup steps, see
Connect boat instruments. The compatibility table on
that page distinguishes what works in this release from direct local AIS and
automatic equipment discovery that are still planned.
Ship's Logbook
The first section of the Data tab. See
Every 2 hours.
a voyage is under way or the anchor watch is armed.
silently. Hidden while the report is Off.
Backup & Sync
> Where to find it: Backup & Sync is a row under the Safe Anchor
> tab (in its Data section), not under the Settings Data tab.
Open Safe Anchor → Backup & Sync to reach the controls below.
Keep your captain marks, routes, and boat profile safe and consistent
across devices.
across every device signed in to the same account. Shows the sync
status (Synced · time, Syncing…, or an error) with a Sync Now
button for an immediate push.
file is AES-encrypted and the same passphrase is required to
restore it. Leave it empty for an unencrypted backup.
save off-device.
data: marks and routes are added or updated, never deleted.
Data Sources & Partners
A read-only sheet listing every provider whose data feeds the app —
OpenStreetMap and MapLibre, ESRI and Mapbox, NOAA and national met
services, Wikipedia, Global Fishing Watch, and others — with links to each
provider's website.
Shared chart data
In the Data tab, Share chart data anonymously (on by default) lets AnchorQueen share the seamarks, harbours, anchorages and customs offices it downloads from OpenStreetMap. They join a shared chart cache, so every captain's chart fills in faster and the free OpenStreetMap servers get fewer requests. Only public OpenStreetMap data is shared — never your position, your boat or who you are. Turn it off and your app still uses the shared cache; it just stops adding to it.
Services
Advanced diagnostics. The most useful is the NHC connection test which
checks whether the National Hurricane Center cyclone feed is reachable.
Help — the manual and release notes
Under the General tab, above the About card, are two entries into the
documentation that ships with the app. Both work with no connection.
same way this book is (Start here, The tabs, Reference, *Release
notes*), and a search field that looks inside every page and takes you
to the exact section, not just the page.
From there, Earlier releases lists the notes for every previous version
the app knows about, so you can catch up after skipping an update. The
version you have installed is marked Installed.
The manual is translated into the same languages as the app. If a page has
not been translated yet, it is shown in English with a note saying so — the
manual never hides a page because a translation is missing. The language
follows your [App Language](#language) setting.
The same manual is reachable from the sidebar — see
You do not have to come here after an update: the release notes for a new
version open by themselves on the first launch after it installs, once — see
About card
AnchorQueen shows version information in two places:
version and build number. Quote this when you contact support.
static label), Map Data (OpenStreetMap), Mode (GPS Only ·
Offline), and Map Engine (MapLibre GL). It does not track your build
number; use the Safe Anchor card for that.
Your Cached Tiles size is shown separately, under the Data tab's
Storage section; it is calculated in the background and reads
"Calculating…" briefly on first load.
Sidebar shortcuts
While Settings is showing, the sidebar
carries a Sections list (it starts folded — tap SECTIONS to open it).
Tap a row and Settings switches to the right tab and scrolls that section to
the top; on iPhone the sidebar closes so you can see it. A sub-screen you had
open, such as Layer Defaults & Zoom, closes first.
The base map and depth palette are not Settings sections — pick them in
If something goes wrong
chart refreshes labels on next draw.
(switch sub-modes once) and try again.
Safer sync and backups
This device’s local library stays linked to its first signed-in account after the update. Signing in to another account pauses library sync; sign back in to the owning account to resume. Offline records stay on the device. New encrypted backups use stronger password protection and remain readable in 2.4.4 or later; older backups can still be restored. Backup processing runs in the background, with a 128 MiB file limit. Cross-device passage deletion and out-and-back track preservation have also been corrected.
Atelier vessels
Every vessel class uses detailed Atelier artwork in navigation, anchor watch, simulation and replay — including the 24 m motor yacht, the superyacht (motor yachts of 30 m and more), the vessel models you choose in the boat editor — four trawler looks, the power catamaran and the houseboat (Vessel model), and new trimaran and RIB-tender models. Charter gulets have their own two-masted image. In the boat editor and My Boat settings, drag the 3D vessel to orbit and pinch to zoom. AIS ships are redrawn from detailed models too — see the AIS symbols.