Customization

Accessibility and device storage

Saturation, animation, reduced motion, and clearing cache without signing out

1 min readUpdated for the current Astral app

Accessibility

User Settings → Accessibility

  • Color saturation 0–100% (default 100).
  • Always underline links.
  • Enable text selection (off by default on mobile).
  • DM list previews: all / unread only / none.
  • Composer focus ring and Esc to leave keyboard mode.
  • Animation: play animated emoji, autoplay GIFs, stickers always / on interaction / never.
  • Motion: follow the OS reduced-motion setting or force it on.

Device storage

User Settings → Device Storage shows how much space images, stickers, voice messages, GIFs, and other files use.

  • You can clear selected cache types without signing out and without deleting server-side messages.
  • Device-only policies: total cache 256–4096 MB (default 2048), media 128–2048 MB (default 1024), retention 3 / 7 / 30 / 90 / 365 days (default 30).

This is not a substitute for an account export: Exporting your account data.

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