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Your Library home and tiles

The Library opens on a home screen. Search everything at once, open a “Where it’s from” tile to see saves from one source, or tap a topic chip. A source tile appears only once you have saved something from that source. Your three newest Memories appear below, with “See all” for the full list.

To make your own tile, tap “New tile,” give it a name, and add a few match words separated by commas, such as trip or recipe. A Memory shows in the tile when one of those whole words appears in it or in its saved place’s name or address, so “trip” never matches “Stripe.” Pick a symbol, or, with Apple Intelligence turned on, make an icon with Image Playground. You can make a tile before you have saved anything.

To add or take out a Memory by hand, open it and use “In tiles,” or tap Select inside a tile and then Remove. Your own choice always wins over the match words.

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Importing bookmarks

1. Export your bookmarks as an .html file from Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or Edge, and put it on your iPhone with AirDrop or the Files app.
2. In Backmark, tap + Add, then “Import bookmarks,” and choose the file.
3. Choose the folders to import, then choose “Sort by folder,” or let Apple Intelligence sort them on your iPhone. Only each bookmark’s title, site, and folder name are read. Pages are never opened.
4. Move any link or rename a category before you close.

Links left in “Web bookmarks” can be sorted later from the Library.

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Places and routes

Share an Apple Maps or Google Maps link to Backmark to save it as a place, or open any Memory and tap “Add a place.” Place search uses Apple Maps with only the words you type, never your location, and Backmark never asks for location permission. A Google Maps short link is resolved by asking Google only for its first redirect, without loading a page. When you share directions from Google Maps or Apple Maps, the destination is saved as the place, and where you start and how you travel go into its description.

A Board with two or more places shows a planned route that follows the Board’s order. Hold the handle on a stop and drag it to move that place, then choose walk or drive. Only the stops’ coordinates go to Apple Maps for directions. It is a plan, not a record of where you went.

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Boards and sharing

In Boards, tap + and choose the Memories to group. Each save shows its picture: a screenshot or photo, a map pin for a place, or the icon of where it came from, so you can find one without opening it. Tap a row to open it. To change the order, hold the handle on the right of a row and drag it. Use “Edit Memories” to add or remove saves. The order you set is used for the shared images, the shared text, Board studio, and the route.

Open a Board and tap Share to see it as a swipeable set of images. Pick one of five colour themes. Share sends the images together with every original link, and Download saves the images to Photos. Backmark asks only to add photos, so it can’t see your photo library.

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Board studio and Board covers

On compatible iPhones with Apple Intelligence turned on, open a Board and tap “Board studio.” It has two tabs.

• Ask answers questions using only the Memories in that Board, with numbered sources you can open. If the Board doesn’t contain the answer, Backmark says so instead of guessing.
• Generate writes a caption, trip plan, checklist, or summary from the Board’s saves. Pick a style and length, then edit, copy, or share the result as images. It never adds facts from the internet.

Tap “Create cover” to make a Board cover. Backmark writes a short description from the Board’s places and topics. Change any word, pick a style, then tap “Make with AI” to continue to Apple’s Image Playground.

You can turn these features on or off in Profile under On-device AI. Saving, text recognition, and search work on every supported iPhone, with or without Apple Intelligence.

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A source will not preview

Some websites prevent embedded previews. Your source link remains available, and you can open it in the original website or app.

A saved link only points to the original. If the original is deleted or made private, the link stops opening, but what Backmark saved stays on your iPhone.

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Summaries and searchable text

A save is stored and searchable straight away. On compatible iPhones, Apple Intelligence then summarises it on your iPhone, one at a time, while Backmark is open. iOS does not let apps do this while they are closed, so anything you share then is summarised the next time you open Backmark.

Backmark uses Apple’s on-device text recognition for saved screenshots and images. Recognition can vary with image quality, text size, language, and contrast.

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Exporting, restoring, and deleting data

Choose “Export all local data” in Profile to create one zip file with a readable Backmark.html page, a backmark-data.json file, and folders with your photos, files, Board covers, map pictures, and tile icons. Send or save it with the iOS share sheet. Original links are kept.

To restore, tap + Add, then “Restore a Backmark export,” and choose the zip. Restoring adds only what is missing and never deletes or overwrites anything.

Delete one Memory from its detail screen, select several with “Select” in the Library, or choose “Delete all local data” in Profile. Deleting a Board does not delete its Memories.

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Purchase and re-download

Backmark is a one-time App Store purchase with no subscription. To install it again on another compatible device, use the same Apple Account and download it from your App Store purchase history.