AlcoLog has three settings groups that change how the app looks, how it feels in your hand, and how sessions behave. This tutorial walks through each: Display & Haptics (theme, app icons, currency, haptic intensities), and Session Control (auto-stop, resume window, timeline interval).
# Step 1. Open Display & Haptics
Tap the Settings tab, then tap Display & Haptics. The screen opens with five sections: Appearance, App Icon, Dynamic Island, Currency, and Haptics. There’s also a Reset to Default button at the bottom.
Each section is independent; you can change one without touching the others.
# Step 2. Pick a theme and app icon
The Appearance section has two pickers, one for the iPhone app and one for your widgets. Each picker offers Light, Dark, or System (matches iOS). The iPhone setting and the widget setting are independent: you can run the app in dark mode while keeping widgets light, or vice versa.
The App Icon section is Premium-only. Premium users see a 4-by-2 grid of alternate icons; tap one and iOS prompts to confirm the change. Free users see the alternates locked behind a single Unlock with Premium button.
The Currency section sets the default for cost display and totals. Pro users get an extra Auto-switch by location toggle that flips the currency based on where you are when you start a session (handy for travelling).
# Step 3. Tune the haptics
Scroll down to Haptics. The master In-App Haptics toggle turns the whole haptic system on or off. Below it, four intensity sliders let you tune the subtle feedback for each interaction category:
- Navigation: tab changes, back-button taps
- Button: primary button presses (Add Drink, End Session)
- Movement: picker scrolling, swipe-to-delete, sheet drags
- Special Actions: alert breaches, session start/end, milestone moments
Each slider runs from 0 (off) to 100% (default Apple intensity). Setting a category to 0 effectively disables haptics for that group while leaving the others intact.
# Step 4. Set Session Control options
Back out of Display & Haptics. Tap Session Control on the Settings screen. This screen has four areas:
- Auto-Stop: toggle plus a threshold (default 90 minutes of inactivity ends a session automatically)
- Resume Window: how long after End Session you can resume into the same session (default 60 minutes; any new tap of Start Session inside this window asks “Resume or start new?”)
- Timeline Interval: bucket size for the chart on Home (15 min, 30 min, hour). Smaller intervals show more bars; larger intervals smooth them
- Siri Commands: Pro-only shortcut for “Hey Siri, log a beer”
# Step 5. Reset if it gets messy
If you’ve fiddled too far and want a clean slate, scroll to the bottom of Display & Haptics and tap the red Reset to Default button. A confirmation alert asks before clearing every setting on this screen back to its factory value.
Auto-Stop, Resume Window, and Timeline Interval reset separately from the Session Control screen using the same pattern: a destructive button at the bottom.
That covers the customisation surface. Theme, icon, currency, four haptic intensities, three session-control parameters. Most users tune two or three of these once and forget about the rest.
# What’s next
For finer control over what alerts fire, see setting up alerts and notifications. For more on what gets written outside the app, syncing with Apple Health is one toggle away.