Customize your PlateLens Home
Choose the daily metrics you want to see at a glance on Home, then arrange Blood Glucose, Movement, Hydration, Steps, Weight and Alcohol, and decide when each health card appears. You can edit the metrics directly from Home or use the general Customize Home editor.
Open Home customization
Mobile app
Choose Customize beside the daily metrics to open Your day, at a glance directly. For the general editor, choose Customize Home at the bottom of Home, or open More → Preferences → Customize Home.
Web app
Use Customize beside Your day at a glance to choose daily metrics directly. To arrange health cards, choose Customize Home at the bottom of Today or open Settings → Home.
Edit your daily metrics directly
- Open Customize beside the metrics on Home.
- Choose the metrics you want to keep in view and arrange their order. The selected list shows what will appear on Home.
- Tap Save once to save your selection to your account and return to Home where you left off.
This focused editor changes only the daily metrics. Your health-card order and visibility stay as they were.
On mobile Home, nutrient gauges, including calories and macros, show the daily percentage and the recorded amount with its unit, such as kcal, g, mg or mcg. When a daily reference is unavailable, the amount can still appear without a percentage. Tap the gauge to see its detail.
Customize everything together on mobile
- Open the general Customize Home editor. It starts on Health cards, where you can reorder cards and choose their visibility.
- Choose the Metrics tab to edit your daily metrics in the same screen. Switching tabs keeps your changes in one draft.
- Tap the fixed Save action once to save the sections you changed and return to the screen you came from. If you changed both sections, they are saved together.
If you try to leave with unsaved changes, PlateLens lets you return to the editor or discard the draft. The compact Leagues section and PlateLens's fixed nutrition and fasting surfaces are not health cards and stay in their established places.
Customize on the web
The web app presents the same account settings in two focused editors. Your day at a glance edits the shared daily metrics and saves them with one confirmation. Settings → Home edits health-card order and visibility; choose Save Home to commit that card draft. Changes made on mobile or web appear in the other signed-in sessions for the same account.
Add the Alcohol gauge
Alcohol is in the Health group of the metric editor on mobile and web, free on every plan. If alcohol tracking is off when you add it, the editor tells you that saving turns tracking on, and Save stores the gauge and turns tracking on together. Removing the gauge later keeps tracking on; you turn tracking off in More → Alcohol or on the web Alcohol page.
The gauge shows the amount recorded today with your daily limit or the reference beneath it, such as 39.4 g of 20 g, rather than a percentage, and reads Off while tracking is off. See how the Alcohol gauge works.
Automatic, Always show and Hide
Automatic
PlateLens uses that card's product rule. Its saved position does not change when it appears or disappears.
Always show
The card stays on Home even without a current reading or activity, keeping its relevant entry point available. PlateLens represents missing information honestly rather than inventing a measurement.
Hide
The card is removed only from Home. Hiding never deletes records, changes a health permission, stops import or export, or removes the feature from the global + menu, Diary, History, reports or the AI Coach.
What Automatic means for each card
- Blood Glucose: hidden until the account first records or imports glucose, then kept on Home permanently—including days without readings. Deleting the latest reading does not make the feature look unused again. The main value comes only from today; an empty day says there are no glucose readings today and keeps previous readings in History.
- Movement: shown when the day contains logged exercise or useful device activity. Choose Always show to keep the Log Exercise entry point on empty days.
- Steps: shown when Health can be connected, while its data is loading, or when steps are available. Choose Always show to retain the card when the connected source has no steps for the day.
- Alcohol: shown while alcohol tracking is on, including days without drinks. It starts at the end of your card list. Choose Always show to keep an entry to Alcohol on Home while tracking is off; the card then shows no amounts, and choosing it does not turn tracking on. See the Alcohol card on Home.
- Hydration and Weight: these are normally visible and use a straightforward Show on Home choice instead of a redundant Automatic choice.
After you log something
After you log a meal, PlateLens normally returns to the fixed Nutrition card. Exercise, weight, blood glucose and hydration entries return to their corresponding Home card and highlight it. If you explicitly hid that health card, the save still succeeds and PlateLens confirms it on the feature's Diary or History surface instead of trying to scroll to an element you chose not to show. The original record remains available everywhere it normally appears.
Mobile, web and Apple Watch
Health-card order and visibility belong to your PlateLens account, so mobile and web use the same choices. On the web, Steps has its own card and can be ordered independently from Movement just as it can on mobile.
Your selected daily metrics and their order are also account settings. They appear near the top of mobile Home and web Today and feed the selected gauges on Apple Watch Home. Apple Watch does not have the health-card editor: hiding or moving a mobile or web health card does not hide or reorder Watch features. Health imports and permissions continue to be controlled by Apple Health or Health Connect on the phone.
See nutrition and repeat meals with iPhone widgets
Open your iPhone's widget gallery and search for PlateLens. Choose a widget and size for the Home Screen, or add a supported widget while customizing the Lock Screen.
- Calories Left: choose the medium or large Home Screen size to see calories together with protein, carbohydrates and fat.
- Protein: add the circular or rectangular Lock Screen widget to check your daily protein. It keeps a neutral color when your recorded protein exceeds the daily target, matching Home.
- Repeat a Meal: this Home Screen shortcut opens Saved & Recent. Choose a meal or saved group, review its items and portions, and confirm the log in the app.
Widgets use data synced from the iPhone app; iOS controls when their display refreshes. If a figure seems old, open PlateLens and check today's diary and totals. Choosing daily metrics inside PlateLens does not replace the separate widgets you add in iOS.
Restore PlateLens defaults
In the general mobile editor, choose Restore Home Defaults to put both daily metrics and health cards back to their recommended settings in the current draft. The focused metrics editor restores only its metric selection. Review the result, then tap Save to apply it. Leaving without saving does not apply the restored draft.
On the web, Reset to default in Settings → Home immediately restores the health-card layout only. Daily gauges remain a separate web editor.
If the layout is not what you expect
- On mobile, confirm that you tapped Save. Choosing or reordering an item changes the draft until you save it.
- On the web, save daily gauges and health cards from their respective editors.
- Remember that an Automatic card can be absent because its current rule is not met; choose Always show if you want a permanent entry point.
- Use Restore Home Defaults in the general mobile editor if you want to replace all metric, card-order and visibility choices in the draft, then tap Save.
- Hiding a card does not hide period-specific data from Diary or reports. Those surfaces continue to include a section only when the selected period has relevant records.
For glucose-specific behavior, see Track blood glucose with meals and exercise. For movement timing, see Log exercise with a start time and duration.