FAQ and troubleshooting

No. The Play price buys the whole app, yours to keep. Pro is one optional purchase inside it, for those who want widgets, 2fa codes, news, gps and the other extras. No subscription. See phosphor pro.

Open settings, phosphor pro, and tap restore purchase.

An optional subscription, 0.99 USD or EUR a month, for those who want to help more. It pays for bug fixes and the live data the panels fetch, like weather, radar, the ISS and quakes. It unlocks nothing, and nothing is locked without it. Find it in settings, under support the developer. Cancel any time in Google Play.

Hold empty space, tap looks, and tap one. my own look brings back what you had. See the recipe.

It is gone since 1.65. The home is solid now, and a picture shows at the strength its preset was made for. The free glass CRT is still in looks, fine tune, crt.

They were hard to read, so they were removed. If you used one, you get the free glass instead. Pro keeps amber, green, vhs and curved.

They are part of phosphor pro now.

Android lets an app lock the screen only through an accessibility service. The Phosphor lock service only locks the screen, and it is off until you turn it on.

Yes. Hold empty space, pages, name, or type :rename. See the recipe.

No. The gps panel (pro) uses your precise location only if you allow it, and it is not sent to us.

Tap ◆ at the top left, or hold empty space, and tap settings in the main menu. You can also swipe up and type :settings.

Android does not allow that. Phosphor draws a live wallpaper that shows behind Android's own lock screen, in the same look as home. Android still asks for your PIN or fingerprint.

The second one is Android's. Use the setup step system lock cards: set lock screen notifications to "Don't show any notifications" and turn off "Dynamic clock".

Android 10 or newer. It is ready for Android 17 too: link and the ping panel ask for local network access first.

Only for the features you use: the weather and the city lookup when you type a place, the radio while a station plays, and the panels you add that fetch from the web, like air quality, holidays, news, radar or git, while they show. Everything else works offline. The privacy policy lists every host and what it receives.

No. No account, no ads, no analytics. See the privacy policy.

Android uses the microphone permission for reading the sound the phone plays. Phosphor only reads how loud each band is, to move the bars. Nothing is recorded, kept or sent.

Yes. Open looks, fine tune, day and night ›, set switch to by the sun or 22 to 7, and pick a day theme and a night theme. By the sun uses sunrise and sunset where the weather is, worked out on the phone. See the recipe.

Yes, with the app shelf panel: one app per cell, as a 4x1 row, a 1x4 column, a 2x2 grid or bigger. See the recipe.

A little. In rain it costs about the same as the rain background. Under a clear sky it draws nothing. It shows on the home screen only.

No. Sunrise and sunset are worked out on the phone, from the place the weather already uses.

Big numbers and waybar. Live sky is the only style that moves, so it costs the most. Change it in the weather panel's menu, style. See the recipe.

Yes. In looks, fine tune, font steps through system mono, vt323 and your own font, and load font file picks a font file from your phone.

Yes. looks, fine tune, your picture. Phosphor keeps a copy inside the app, and text stays easy to read on any photo.

It is called keep in place now, and it is on by default. Find it in the main menu, edit layout, in any panel's menu, or in settings, home.

Up to ten.

In Android settings, pick it as the Home app. On most phones that is under Apps, then Default apps.

Allow location, or type a city under settings, clock and weather, weather places. If it says offline, check your connection and tap the panel to try again.

Phosphor needs notification access. Open the setup guide (main menu, help, setup guide) and use step 3, allow access.

Now playing appears only while a player has a session, and it needs notification access.

Allow the calendar. The meeting page offers allow calendar when it has no access.

Android can drop a live wallpaper when the app is stopped or updated. Set it again: settings, phone, lock screen, set as lock screen.

The radio needs the internet. If a station is down, pick another one. Errors show in plain words, like offline or station not answering.

Change text size in looks, fine tune: small, medium or large. Phosphor also follows your phone's font size, up to 200%.

Tap undo in the strip within 6 seconds. Or add it again with + add.

Hold empty space, tap help, then reset to defaults. Your settings are saved first, so bring back the saved copy can undo it.

Check frame rate in settings, motion and battery. 60 is smooth, 30 saves battery. Turning motion off in fine tune saves the most; terrain is the heaviest scene. If it still looks wrong, report a bug with your phone model.