Settings

The Settings panel collects every configuration option of the running application. Open it via:

• The top menu bar: DroneField → Settings…
• Or the keyboard shortcut: ⌘,

The panel has 7 tabs.

Account

Details about the signed-in user:

• Name
• Email (read-only, your portal account identifier)
• User ID (internal numeric ID)

At the bottom of the tab: Sign out. This:

• Revokes the Sanctum token server-side
• Clears the local Keychain token
• Saves the current project and returns to the sign-in screen

Device

Details of the currently running machine, mirrored from the portal’s Devices page:

• Device UUID — unique identifier
• Name — OS-supplied computer name
• Status — Active / Inactive / Suspended / Revoked
• Last heartbeat — updates every ~15 minutes
• Hardware — e.g. MacBookPro18,3 — Apple M3 Pro
• RAM — e.g. 32 GB

Units & language

Two more settings live on the Device tab:

• Units — switch between Metric and Imperial measurement units (acres, feet, gallons per acre, …). Every distance, area and dose shown in the application follows this setting. The switch changes the display only — stored data and exports are unaffected.
• Language — change the application language. Since version 26.4 the full interface — including the AI analysis report — is available in 9 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Romanian.

Both changes require an application restart to take effect.

Project folder

The Device tab also has a separate section: Project folder. Choose where DroneField stores your projects.

• Current location — e.g. ~/DroneField/ or the sandbox container
• Change… — a folder picker opens; pick a new location (recommended: ~/DroneField/)
• Reset to Container — revert to the macOS sandbox location

When you change locations, DroneField offers to move existing projects to the new folder (using rename, not copy — fast).

Which location?

• ~/DroneField/ is visible directly in Finder — easy access to files
• The Container folder is hidden but set up for automatic backup (Time Machine, iCloud)
• A folder inside iCloud Drive: works but may be slow on large projects

Map

Choose the map provider. See Map basics.

Two sections:

• Map provider — Apple Maps or OpenStreetMap
• Default style — Satellite or BaseMap
• Active combination — shows the resulting source

Changes take effect immediately on every open map.

Licence

Current licence state:

• Mode — Active subscription, Credit-based, Offline (cached token) or Licence info unavailable
• Expires — next check or expiry date
• Remaining credits — usable project credits
• Last refresh — last sync time with the server

Refresh licence forces an immediate resync — useful after a portal purchase if you don’t want to wait the 5-minute cache.

Updates

Version checks:

• Current version — e.g. v26.1
• New version — e.g. v26.2 (if any)
• Status — Up to date or New version available

Check for updates queries manually.

The application auto-checks every 4 hours — when a new stable build appears, a banner shows at the top of the main screen.

Privacy

The telemetry switch:

• Send anonymous usage statistics (toggle)
• Explanation below

See Privacy & telemetry.

Licence validation and update checking work even with telemetry off — those are not privacy-sensitive.

Diagnostics

Technical details for troubleshooting:

• Telemetry queue — events waiting to send
• API base URL — e.g. https://api.dronefield.app/v1
• Build — DEBUG or RELEASE

Flush telemetry now flushes queued events immediately.

When you raise a support ticket, paste the Diagnostics info — it dramatically speeds up triage.

Maintenance

Controls cleanup of the Layers/ (intermediates) and Cache/ (cache) folders:

• Intermediate files total size — summed across every project
• Delete intermediate files — empties Layers/ and Cache/ across every project (finals are untouched)
• Per-project cleanup — pick individual projects

The intermediates rebuild automatically at the next processing — no data loss.