Make it yours (themes & customization)

CareHaven should feel like yours, not like a generic dashboard. You can change how it looks, pick which tools sit front and center, and quietly hide the parts you do not need. None of this changes your care data. It only changes what you see and where you find it. Available

Pick a color theme

CareHaven comes with eight color themes, each with its own soft background and accent color. Available

• Haven
• Forest
• Ocean
• Sunrise
• Blossom
• Terracotta
• Twilight
• Midnight

Choose the one that feels calm to you. Each theme carries its own gentle background, so the app picks up a little of your personality. Every theme is built to stay readable, and each one has a version made for dark mode.

You can also make a custom theme. Open Settings → Appearance → Theme, choose a custom color, and use the color wheel to tune it. Saved custom themes stay available, and CareHaven keeps checking the colors against light and dark mode so the app remains readable. Available

Light, dark, or follow your phone

Separate from the color theme, you can set how light or dark the app is:

• Light keeps things bright.
• Dark is easier on the eyes at night.
• System follows whatever your iPhone is already set to, so the app dims when your phone does.

Available

Set how your week begins

Some people read a calendar starting on Sunday, others on Monday. You can choose which day your week starts on, and the schedule and day views will follow your choice. Available

Choose which tabs you see

The bottom of the screen holds a small row of tabs for the tools you reach for most, plus a center + button for quick logging. You decide which tools live in that row. Available

Pick the four sections that matter most for your day, and they sit one tap away. Anything you do not pin still lives in the menus, so nothing disappears. For most families it helps to pin the logs you touch daily and leave the once-in-a-while tools tucked away in the menu.

The Home screen, the + button, and the menus are all explained in Finding your way around.

You can also change the center quick-log shortcut. Long-press the center item, pick a different quick log, or choose Most Used to let CareHaven place your most common log there again. Available

Hide menu items you don't use

If a menu feels crowded, you can tidy it. In Settings you can hide individual items from the menu and from the + quick-log grid, so you only see the tools you actually use. Available

Hiding an item never deletes anything. If you change your mind, you can turn it back on the same way.

General Caregiver Mode

CareHaven was built with special-needs caregiving in mind, so some screens are made for specific situations. If those do not fit your life, you can turn on General Caregiver Mode. Available

This is an opt-out switch that hides the special-needs-specific tools, leaving a simpler app focused on everyday care. The screens are not gone for good. Turn the mode back off and they return.

Focus Mode

On a hard day, even helpful extras can feel like noise. Focus Mode strips the decorative cards from your Home screen and holds back the small pop-ups the app might otherwise offer, so the screen stays quiet. Available

With Focus Mode on, Home keeps to the essentials. The at-a-glance attention cards are limited too, so at most one shows at a time instead of two. You can read more about those cards on The Home screen.

It honors your accessibility settings

You do not have to set these up inside CareHaven. The app reads the choices you have already made on your iPhone and follows them.

• Larger text. Turn up text size in your iPhone settings and CareHaven's words grow with it. The app is built to stay readable and reflow neatly even at the largest text sizes. Available
• Reduce Motion. If you have asked your phone to cut back on movement, CareHaven honors it. The gentle tilt and float of cards and menus, and the small animations in features like the seizure timer, calm down or turn off. Available

There is more on these and other accessibility features, including VoiceOver, color-blind-friendly palettes, and Switch Control, on the Accessibility page.

Where these live

Almost all of this sits in Settings: the theme, light or dark, your week-start, the tab and menu choices, General Caregiver Mode, and Focus Mode. The accessibility pieces come from your iPhone's own settings and carry over on their own. Take a few minutes once, and the app will fit the way you work from then on.

Looking for everything CareHaven can do? See the Full feature catalog.