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title: Settings redesign (tabbed pages)
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# Settings redesign (tabbed pages)

## What it is

The **Settings redesign** breaks the app's largest Settings pages into **tabbed
sub-pages** so a long scroll becomes a short, labelled tab strip. Instead of one tall
page you scroll through, each big page splits into a handful of focused tabs you click
between:

- **Appearance** → Theme & Visual · Sidebar · Text · Motion · Layout Mods
- **Sessions** → Behavior · Display · Waiting · Cost · Custom Render
- **Voice & Speech** → its own tab split

It also adds two touches that ride the same redesign:

- **Basic / Advanced splitting** — the rarely-touched "advanced" settings on a tab
  collapse under an **Advanced** disclosure, so the default view stays short and the
  power-user knobs are one click away rather than always on screen.
- **Live previews** — a couple of settings show a small live sample of what the choice
  looks like (the **text size** preview and the **chat depth** bubble preview update as
  you change them).

It changes only the **presentation** of settings — the tabs, the Basic/Advanced folding,
and the previews. It does **not** add, remove, or rename any individual setting; every
setting that existed before still exists, just reachable through a tab.

## Where to find it

### Where you see it

Open **Settings** and go to any of the larger pages (Appearance, Sessions, Voice &
Speech): a tab strip sits at the top of the page, and the advanced settings on each tab
fold under an **Advanced** disclosure. Smaller settings pages are unchanged.

## How it behaves

### Status

It shipped as the **default for everyone** — there is **no toggle** to turn it on or off.
The tabbed layout is simply how these Settings pages look now. (It was previously an
opt-in preview behind a Lab toggle; that toggle has been retired now that it's the
default.)

### Related, but separate

- **New Settings layout ("rooms")** — the reorganized top-level *grouping* of the
  settings nav (see [new-settings-layout.md](new-settings-layout.md)). That changes which
  *room* a setting lives in; the Settings redesign changes how an individual *page* is
  laid out with tabs. Both are shipped defaults.
- **Quick setup presets** — one-click Minimal / Balanced / Power-user presets — is a
  **separate in-development feature**, not part of this redesign, and stays gated for now.

## Related

[new-settings-layout.md](new-settings-layout.md) is the closest sibling — it covers the reorganised top-level grouping of the settings nav, which is a different change from this page's tabbed page layout. For anything else nearby, [INDEX.md](INDEX.md) is the library index.