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From any app (Safari, YouTube, Facebook…), tap Share, then Chests. If you don’t see it, scroll the row of apps to the end, tap More and add Chests to your favourites.

In the app, open a chest and tap the teal + tab, or open its ⋯ menu. When you’ve copied a link, the ⋯ menu also offers Add from Clipboard.

Each chest has a Feed for new things to look at and a Vault for what you keep. In My Feed, swipe a post right to keep it in the Vault, or left to delete it. If you’d rather keep everything straight away, turn off Use the Feed in the chest’s settings: it then has only a Vault.

• Make sure both devices are signed in to the same Apple Account with iCloud turned on. Chests › Settings › iCloud and backups shows whether iCloud is available.
• Check that Chests is allowed to use iCloud: Settings › your name › iCloud, then the list of apps using iCloud.
• Open Chests on both devices with an internet connection and give it a moment; large chests with many pictures can take a little longer the first time.
• Low Power Mode and Low Data Mode can delay syncing.

No. Chests uses your own iCloud; there is nothing to sign up for. Without iCloud, the app works on a single device.

Open the chest, then tap the ochre sharing tab on its edge, or ⋯ › Share Chest. Choose how to send the invitation and whether people can only look (read only) or also add and change things (full access). They need an Apple Account; the chest appears in their Shared with Me tab once they accept.

To stop sharing or change someone’s access, open the same sharing screen again.

In Shared with Me, touch and hold the chest, then choose Remove from My List. The chest stays with its owner.

Smart titles and chest guessing use Apple Intelligence, which runs on your device. It needs a device that supports Apple Intelligence, with Apple Intelligence turned on in Settings, in a supported language and region. The model may also need to finish downloading after you turn it on.

Without it, Chests uses the page’s own title and suggests the chest you used last; everything else works the same.

No. Titles, chest guesses, picture recognition and translation all happen on your device. Illustrated covers are made by Apple’s Image Playground, only when you ask for one. See the Privacy Policy.

iOS and iPadOS ask before any app reads what you copied from another app. Chests reads the clipboard only when you tap Add from Clipboard or open the add form with a copied link.

To stop being asked, open Settings › Apps › Chests › Paste from Other Apps and choose Allow.

Some websites block apps from reading their pages, or show a security check instead. Open the item’s link to read it on the website. The rest of the item (title, cover, notes, tags) still works.

Some pages don’t offer a preview picture. Open the item and use Change Cover to paste an image, give an image URL, choose a photo or a file.

Open the item, then ⋯ › Change Cover › Create an Illustration. Apple’s Image Playground opens with the item’s title, its tags and its chest; pick the picture you like. It needs a device with Apple Intelligence turned on. Image Playground won’t draw real people, so their names are left out.

In the reader, tap Translate. The article is translated on your device by Apple’s Translation; the first time, iOS may ask to download the language. On the listening screen, switch languages to hear it in the other one.

The first time you tap Listen, Chests offers to download them (a few hundred MB, once). They’re also in Settings › Natural Voices (Kokoro), where you can remove them. Until they’re there, or if you’d rather not, the system’s voices read.

On iPhone or iPad, open Settings (the gear in My Feed) › iCloud and backups › Export a backup. Chests makes one file with every chest, item, note and picture, and opens the share sheet so you can save it to Files or wherever you like.

iCloud sync is not a backup: deleting something on one device deletes it everywhere. Restoring from a backup file isn’t built into the app yet; if you ever need to, write to me and I’ll help.

• Items: deleted items go to Deleted Items (in a chest’s ⋯ menu) for 30 days, then disappear. You can also delete them for good right away.
• A chest: in the chest’s settings, Delete Chest… removes it and everything in it on all your devices, and ends its sharing.
• Everything: delete your chests, then delete the app from each device. To clear what remains in iCloud, go to Settings › your name › iCloud › Manage Account Storage; the data may be listed under Chests or Graphoscope, which shares its storage.

• ⌘V on a chest’s page: add the link you copied
• ⌘N new item · ⇧⌘N new chest
• ⌘+ ⌘− ⌘0 zoom the cards (in a chest) or the chests (on the home page)
• Esc closes the reader

In Settings (on the Mac: Chests › Settings…), choose a theme and a language. A new language applies the next time you open Chests.

Yes, with the Chests extension: a click adds the page you’re on to a chest in Chests for Mac. For Chrome, Brave, Arc and Edge, it’s on the Chrome Web Store; for Safari, it comes with Chests for Mac, turned on in Safari › Settings › Extensions. See Chests for Chrome.