Manage your app settings

General

Interface and canvas: 

• Toolbar: Align the toolbar to the left (default) or right.
• Color theme: Select the preferred theme for the app background. Available options: Use system settings, Lightest (default), Light, or Dark
• Scale strokes and effects: Select to scale to strokes and effects when scaling the selection or making other transformations. It is not selected by default.
  
• Automatically Update Links: Select to update the linked PSD cloud files automatically when the source file is modified.
• Enable East Asian type options: Select to view and apply the character formatting options for East Asian Type from the Properties panel. This option is not selected by default.
  • When this option is selected, the Placeholder Text drop-down is displayed in which you can select a dummy text option (Korean, Japanese, Maru-maru, Lorem Ipsum).
    

Restore settings:

• Reset learn content: Tap to reset Home banners.
  

Input

Apple Pencil:

• Palm rejection: Prevent accidental strokes on canvas when using Apple Pencil.
  
• Double-tap: Set the preferred tool/action for the double-tap gesture when using Apple Pencil. Available options: Show color picker, Deselect object or path, Switch to pen tool, Zoom to 100%, No action (default)

Touch:

• View all touch shortcut functions: Tap to open Touch shortcuts map.
• Show taps as a blue dot: Enable visual indicator to see if a tap on canvas is captured by the app.
• Stroke Smoothing in Blob Brush: Select While drawing to apply the smoothing effect to strokes when drawing a path or After drawing for smoother effects after you end the stroke.

Units

• Stroke: Set the preferred unit for strokes. Available options: Pixels, Inches, Centimeters, Millimeters, Points (default), and Ha (available only when East Asian Type Options are enabled).
  
• Type: Set the preferred unit for text properties. Available options: Pixels, Inches, Millimeters, Points (default), and Q (available only when East Asian Type Options are enabled).
  
• East Asian type: Set the preferred unit for East Asian text type. To enable this option, select Enable East Asian type options in the General tab.

Account

• Edit profile: Tap to edit your profile.
  
• Sign out: Sign out from your Adobe account 
  
• Cloud storage: Check your available cloud storage space.
  
• Local storage: Check your available device storage space.

About

Version x.x.x: Displays Illustrator on the iPad version.

Follow and share: 

• Behance, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
• Livestreaming on Behance: Tap to start livestreaming of your design workflows on Behance.
• Send feedback: Tap to share your feedback with Adobe.

Legal:

• Send usage info: When enabled, your usage info is shared with Adobe to give you a personalized experience, and helps in improving product features.
• Send crash reports: Choose Always to regularly send crash reports to Adobe.
• Terms of use
• Privacy policy
• Do Not Sell My Personal Information
• Third-party notices

Help

Learn

• Browse all tutorials: Tap to browse through the hands-on tutorials available in the app.
• View gestures: Tap to view the list of touch gestures.
• Touch shortcut: Tap to view the list of touch shortcuts.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Tap to view the list of keyboard shortcuts.
• Online help: Tap to open the self-help documentation.
• Add your own fonts: Tap to learn how to add your own fonts in Illustrator.
  

Support:

• Suggest an improvement
  
• Report a bug
• Save support logs

Tap to open Illustrator UserVoice page where you can suggest improvements and report bugs.