Settings That Follow You Between Devices
Appearance, animation and recognition language follow your account to a new device, while this browser keeps its own copy so nothing flashes.
Written against the Sep 12, 2026 release·what has changed since
Three settings on this site are worth carrying between devices: how it looks, how much it animates, and which language the text recognition starts in. Until accounts existed, all three lived only in the browser you set them in, and they vanished the moment you cleared your site data.
The three that follow you
- Appearance: light, dark, or follow whatever your system is set to.
- Animation: full, reduced, none, or follow your system's reduced-motion preference.
- Recognition language: the language the OCR tool starts on, which you can still change per document.
Why this browser still keeps its own copy
There is a detail here that looks redundant and is not. Appearance and animation are applied before the page paints, by a small script that runs ahead of everything else. That is what stops the site flashing a bright page at you for a fraction of a second before the dark theme loads.
A script that runs before the first paint cannot wait for a server to answer. So the browser's own copy of those two settings is what actually drives the page, and the account is how the choice reaches a new browser rather than how it is applied in this one.
Saving does nothing when nothing changed
Pressing save without touching a control writes nothing. The site compares what you have against what is stored and skips the write entirely when they match. That is deliberate: a settings screen that saves unconditionally does a database write every time somebody opens it and presses the button out of habit.
Reduced motion is a real setting, not a gesture
If you set animation to reduced or off, the site honours it everywhere, including the illustrated demonstrations on the homepage. If you leave it on follow my system, it reads the reduced-motion preference your operating system already exposes, so you do not have to set it twice.
The short version
- Appearance, animation and recognition language follow your account.
- This browser keeps its own copy so the page never flashes the wrong theme.
- A new device needs one save before it matches.
- Saving unchanged settings writes nothing at all.
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