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Three view modes: Simple View, See Everything, and Legacy View
- Nothing to install, nothing to switch on. The choice is one card in Settings, and you can change it as often as you like.
- Your data stays put. All three modes read and write the same Ravelry account, so the same projects, stash and counters are there whichever one you pick.
- Works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Televisions and in-car screens always run the full layout, so they have no picker.
Open Settings. The first card is View Mode. The line under the title says which mode you are in right now. Tap the card to see the three choices.
Where the card sits depends on the mode you are in. In See Everything it is at the top of the Settings tab. In Simple View it is on the Profile tab, under the shortcuts. In Legacy View it is at the top of the Settings page, and also in the menu you get by swiping up on the area bar. It is the same card in all three places, so your way back is never more than a tap or two away.
The card opens to show the three modes. Each has a line saying what it is, and a tick sits against the one you are in. Tap another and the app changes shape straight away. No confirmation, no restart. You are picking a layout, not converting anything.
- Simple View
- Large buttons, few tabs. Made for browsing what is already yours.
- See Everything
- The default, and the recommendation. Every feature, tool and setting the app has.
- Legacy View
- The classic Stash2Go layout. One page per area, no tabs, a bar along the bottom.
Simple View is a smaller app around the same account. You get four tabs: Home, Discover, Patterns and Profile. A fifth, Feed, appears when the feed is switched on and you are online.
Home is six large tiles: My Projects, Queue, My Stash, Favorites, Messages and Forums. Under them sit a recently favorited row and a trending row. The Patterns tab opens straight into Hot Right Now. The Profile tab keeps the few things you still need: appearance, your saved searches, the tools, and Settings.
Things are put away, not removed. The tools list is shorter: no insights section, no paired devices section, no colour palette, no pooling calculator, no global search, no network diagnostics, no newsletter. A pattern page loses its Statistics and Photos tabs. Everything else works exactly as it does in the full layout, including row counters, your PDFs and all of your Ravelry account.
See Everything is how the app arrives. Five tabs: Home, Discover, Feed, Tools and Settings. Nothing is hidden. So if a guide tells you to open something and you cannot find it, this is the mode to be in.
It is also the only mode where the home screen is fully yours to arrange, and the only one where the whole toolkit is one tab away instead of two.
Legacy View has no tabs. A bar along the bottom holds eleven areas: Forums, Patterns, Projects, Stash, Library, Favorites, Bundles, Yarns, Queue, Shops and Friends. Tap one and it fills the screen. Open a project or a pattern and you get one long scrolling page instead of tabs, the way the old Stash2Go did.
Each kind of device remembers its own answer: one for your phone, one for your tablet, one for the browser. Simple View on the phone and See Everything on the laptop is a perfectly ordinary way to run the app. Neither overwrites the other.
Apple TV, Google TV and in-car screens are not part of this. They always run the layout built for them, so the View Mode card is not there at all.
Available on iPhone, iPad, Android, and web at app.stash2go.com