Screen Saver
Images drifting across your screen mean the app has been idle — one touch clears it.
Why you are seeing this: you left the app untouched for longer than the screen saver delay set for your device, so REDENES covered the screen with a gentle bouncing-bubble animation. Nothing has crashed, nothing has been lost, and you have not been signed out. Touch the screen and you are straight back to whatever you were doing.
The screen saver serves two purposes: it makes an unattended device obviously idle from across a room, and it stops the screen you were last on sitting in plain view for anyone walking past.
Overview
| Element | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Bouncing bubbles | Round images drifting across the screen and bouncing off the edges |
| The screen underneath | Still loaded and still live — the saver is only an overlay on top |
| Any touch | Clears the saver and restarts the idle countdown |
| Detail | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Number of bubbles | Up to 20, shuffled from the built-in image set |
| Shuffled | Every time the saver starts, so it looks slightly different each time |
| Bubble size | Around 80 points across on iPhone, around 150 on iPad |
| Movement | Each bubble drifts at its own speed and direction and bounces off all four edges |
| Display | Stays lit while the animation runs — the screen will not dim or lock |
| Controls | None. There is nothing to tap, choose or configure on this screen |
You are still signed in. The screen saver is a visual overlay, not a lock screen and not a session timeout. Your place in the app, any form you were filling in, and any live audio or map view are all still exactly as you left them.
Getting Here
- Leave the app open without touching the screen.
- Once the idle period set for your device has passed, the bubbles fade in over whatever screen you were on.
You cannot open the screen saver on purpose, and no menu leads to it — it only ever appears on its own after inactivity.
Dismiss the Screen Saver
- Touch anywhere on the screen — a tap, a swipe or a scroll all work.
- The animation closes immediately and the idle countdown restarts.
- You are back on the screen you were using before.
The touch that dismisses the saver also reaches the screen underneath, so one gesture does both jobs. If you tap a button's position, that button is pressed as the saver closes — which is fast when you know the app, and worth knowing if you would rather not press anything. To clear the saver without triggering anything, touch an empty area such as a blank margin or the space between rows.
Because a single touch both clears the saver and acts on the screen beneath it, be deliberate about where you touch when the screen underneath has destructive actions on it — a delete button or a confirmation, for example.
Changing or Turning Off the Screen Saver
There is nothing to adjust on the screen saver itself. The delay before it appears is a setting:
| Setting | Where | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Screen Saver Duration | App Defaults | How long the app waits, in seconds, before starting the screen saver. Clearing it stops the saver appearing at all |
| Keep Screen Awake | App Defaults | Whether the display is allowed to sleep while REDENES is open; the screen saver works alongside this |
- Open the Account tab, then App Settings, then App Defaults.
- Find Screen Saver Duration and set the number of seconds you want, or clear it to switch the screen saver off.
- Check Keep Screen Awake as well if the display is dimming sooner than you expect.
How This Connects
- What starts it. An idle timer inside the app, using the Screen Saver Duration value stored for your device. Every touch anywhere in the app resets that timer, which is why the saver only appears when the device is genuinely untouched.
- Where the setting lives. Both Screen Saver Duration and Keep Screen Awake are in App Defaults, alongside theme and units. Screens that must stay visible for long stretches — for example Scene Stream while monitoring audio, or Time & Distance Calculator while recording — read the same Keep Screen Awake setting.
- Not the same as a session timeout. The screen saver never signs you out and never interrupts a request. If you are seeing a message about the server instead of an animation, that is Session Timeout.
- Not a device lock. Your iPhone or iPad's own auto-lock and passcode are separate and stronger. Use both: the screen saver hides content while you are nearby, device auto-lock protects it when you are not.
- Offline and reconnect. The screen saver is purely local. It looks and behaves identically with no signal, it never delays a sync, and anything downloading in the background keeps going behind it.
Troubleshooting
| If this happens | What to do |
|---|---|
| Bubbles appeared and you do not know why | The app was idle. Touch the screen — nothing has been lost |
| The screen saver appears too often | Increase Screen Saver Duration in App Defaults |
| You want it gone completely | Clear Screen Saver Duration in App Defaults |
| Touching the screen pressed a button you did not mean to press | Expected — the dismissing touch reaches the screen underneath. Touch an empty area next time |
| The bubbles will not clear | Touch a different part of the screen; if the app is still unresponsive, close and reopen it |
| Bubbles appear while you are watching the screen | Only touches reset the idle timer, not just looking. Tap the screen occasionally, or raise the duration |
| Your place in the app was lost | That is not the screen saver. Being returned to sign-in means the session ended — see Session Timeout |
| The screen dims instead of showing bubbles | The display is sleeping before the saver starts; turn on Keep Screen Awake in App Defaults |
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