--- title: "Unity AAC Settings Overview" slug: "unity-aac-settings-overview" updated: 2026-10-14T16:38:21Z published: 2026-10-14T16:38:21Z canonical: "documentation.prc-saltillo.com/unity-aac-settings-overview" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://documentation.prc-saltillo.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Unity AAC Settings Overview To open the Unity AAC app settings, select **Menu** > **Settings**. From the Settings screen, scroll to see all available settings. When you finish changing settings, select the checkmark ![](https://cdn.document360.io/7e1d5036-9a43-443d-8ea7-a17280ea302d/Images/Documentation/image(15).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T20%3A06%3A00Z&se=2026-11-02T21%3A06%3A00Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=iJgRWVka5HxHdAvfJcqzjrBPuo7hM1mxgWiC4RgOhsQ%3D). ## Profiles **Save Profile** To save the current app settings as a profile for easy access at a later time, select **Save Profile**, enter a name for the profile, and select **Save**. **Load Profile** To load a profile, select **Load Profile** and select the applicable profile name. --- ## Navigation **Allow Gestures** Allows you to add a gesture to a page such as swiping left or right to engage an action. **Gesture Pop Sound** Provides audible feedback when a gesture is performed. **Button Click Sound** Provides audible feedback when a button is selected. **Button Navigation Icons** Displays the small navigation arrows in the top right corner of all buttons. When the setting is off, the arrows are hidden. --- ## Page Size **Status Bar** When turned on, **Status Bar** displays the device status bar above the Speech Display Bar. **Keyguard Inset** Adjusts the display for a keyguard. Select **Menu** > **Settings** and scroll to the Page Size section. Then select **Keyguard Inset**. **Off:** Select this option if you are not using a keyguard. **Generic:** Select this option if the app is running on a current Via device or non-PRC-Saltillo device. **PRC-Saltillo:** This option appears only if your Via device supports it. Select the option to adjust the display. **Custom:** Select this option if are having a problem aligning a keyguard on an iPad that is running a PRC-Saltillo app. Keyguard alignment issues can arise after an app or Apple software update. This option does **not** apply to Via devices. To adjust keyguard inset measurements to align a keyguard with the software: 1. Go to **Menu > Settings > Keyguard Inset**. 2. Select **Custom**. The option “Set Custom Inserts” will appear at the bottom of the list. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/7e1d5036-9a43-443d-8ea7-a17280ea302d/Images/Documentation/KygrdInset-custom01-en-us.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T20%3A06%3A00Z&se=2026-11-02T21%3A06%3A00Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=iJgRWVka5HxHdAvfJcqzjrBPuo7hM1mxgWiC4RgOhsQ%3D) 3. Select **Set Custom Inserts**. A window will display measurements (based on points). ![](https://cdn.document360.io/7e1d5036-9a43-443d-8ea7-a17280ea302d/Images/Documentation/KygrdInset-custom02-en-us.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T20%3A06%3A00Z&se=2026-11-02T21%3A06%3A00Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=iJgRWVka5HxHdAvfJcqzjrBPuo7hM1mxgWiC4RgOhsQ%3D) 4. Adjust the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right settings. 1. Tap the small up and down arrows to the right of each measurement to change the number shown. 2. Continue to adjust the numbers until the keyguard aligns with the software. --- ## Editing **Menu Passcode** Allows you to enter the password you want to use. **Use Menu Passcode** Requires a password to access the Editing menus. **Allow Vocabulary Deletion** When turned off, this setting prevents you from accidentally deleting a customized file. Turn this setting on only if you are sure you want to delete a specific customized vocabulary file. --- ## Speech **Voice** Allows you to select voices to download and install. Because there are many voice options, voices are downloadable. If you only download and install the voices you need, you can save a lot of storage space on your device. The Voice setting displays the voice currently selected. To download and install a different voice, select **Voice** to open a list of available voices. To hear how a voice sounds, select the play icon. Listen to several voices. When you find the voice you want, select the download icon to download and install it. **Phone/FaceTime Voice** Allows you to select the voice you want to use for phone calls. The Phone/FaceTime Voice setting displays the voice currently selected. - To download and install a different voice, select Phone/FaceTime Voice to open a list of available voices. - To hear how a voice sounds, select the play icon. - When you find the voice you want, select the Apple icon ![](https://cdn.document360.io/7e1d5036-9a43-443d-8ea7-a17280ea302d/Images/Documentation/unity-aac-settings-overview-image-f7l6eban.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T20%3A06%3A00Z&se=2026-11-02T21%3A06%3A00Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=iJgRWVka5HxHdAvfJcqzjrBPuo7hM1mxgWiC4RgOhsQ%3D) to download and install it. **Novelty Voices** Novelty voices are added to the list of available voices when this setting is on. --- ## Speech Display Bar **Hide Speech Display** Hides the entire SDB. **Allow Copy/Paste** Gives the user the option to copy/paste from the SDB. **Auto Capitalization** Capitalizes the first word of a sentence automatically. **Font** Allows you to select one of the available fonts to use for text in the SDB. **Font Size** Determines the size of the font that appears in the SDB. Font sizes range from 14 Point to 72 Point. **Note:** If you try to select a font size and number of lines that together would make the SDB larger than the screen can accommodate, the font size will be adjusted down automatically to a value that allows the SDB to fill no more than 60% of the screen. **Font Color** Allows you to choose one of the available font colors to apply to text in the SDB. **Background Color** Allows you to choose one of the available background colors to apply to the SDB. **Number of Lines** Allows you to choose how many lines of text you want to appear in the SDB. The number of lines ranges from 1 Line to 10 Lines. **Visible Cursor** Displays the cursor to appear in the SDB. Turn this setting off if you do not want the cursor to appear in the SDB. If this setting is turned off and you insert the cursor at the end of the SDB while in Place Cursor mode, the cursor will not appear. **Allow Place Cursor** Allows Place Cursor to appear as an option in the SDB context menu. This would allow you to press and hold on the SDB to place the cursor without setting up a Place Cursor button. **Tap Action** Allows you to **Speak**, **Speak and Enlarge Text**, or **No Action** the SDB is selected. **Highlight Spoken Word** Allows you to select a color to see the words highlighted in the SDB as they are spoken. **Highlight Color Phone/FaceTime** Allows you to select a color to see the words highlighted in the SDB as they are spoken during a telephony call. --- ## AI Features **Enable AI Features:** If your device includes Apple Intelligence and iPadOS 26 or higher, select the on/off toggle to enable AI Features. **Modify Speech Display Bar:** Use AI to correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes in the SDB, replace text in the SDB with more creative text, or translate text in the SDB to another language. This setting includes two options: **AI Message Edit:** corrects grammar and spelling errors. **AI Sentence Predict:** uses AI to provide sentence completion suggestions in the speech display bar. **AI Translate:** translates the SDB into any language supported by an Apple voice **AI Image Generation:** use AI to create images based on your input. **AI Page Generation:** use AI to create a word list when creating a custom page. **Learning Mode:** allows AI to generate a word list when creating a custom page. --- ## Expanded Speech Area **Font** Allows you to select one of the seven available fonts for use for text in the expanded speech area. **Font Size** Determines the size of the font that appears in the expanded speech area. **Font Color** Allows you to choose one of the available font colors to apply to text in the expanded speech area. **Background Color** Allows you to choose one of the available background colors to apply to the expanded speech area. --- ## Speak **Speak Characters** Allows each character to be spoken as it is entered. **Speak Words** Allows each word to be spoken as it is entered. **Speak Sentences** Allows each sentence to be spoken as it is entered. **Auto Clear** Allows you to set what happens to text in the Speech Display Bar after it is spoken. - **Off:** Spoken text remains in the Speech Display Bar until you clear it. - **Immediate:** Text is cleared automatically from the Speech Display Bar as soon as it is spoken. - **After Next Activation:** Text is cleared automatically from the Speech Display Bar when you activate a button in your vocabulary. **Prevent Interruption** Prevents interruptions of speaking a sentence if you accidentally hit another button while it is speaking. --- ## Tilt > [!NOTE] > **Note:** The Tilt settings are available only when the app is running on an iPhone. **Preferred Orientation** Allows you to set your preferred screen orientation based on how you orient the phone. If you hold the phone in portrait orientation, the screen will show “Portrait”. If you hold the phone in landscape orientation, the screen will show “Landscape”. Select **Set** to set your preferred orientation. **Tilt Action** Determines whether moving the phone affects screen reorientation. Available options are Reorient display and No action. - When **Reorient Display** is selected, the screen will automatically reorient when you move it. - When **No Action** is selected, the screen will stay locked in the same orientation when you move it. --- ## Data Logging **Enable Logging** Turns on data logging, allowing your device to collect language usage data which you can upload to the Realize Language website for web-based analysis. **Privacy Password** Allows you to set or change your data logging privacy password. **Export Log** Exports usage data for the current person. **Clear Log** Clears usage data for the current person. **Realize Language Setup** Uploads data collected for a person to the Realize Language website for analysis. --- ## Buttons **Activate on Release** When this setting is on, a button will not activate until released, rather than on selection. **Dwell Time** Controls the delay before a button press is recognized in case a user needs to slide across multiple buttons before pressing the intended button. **Release Time** Buttons: All buttons are disabled for specified period of time after each button activation to prevent accidental double button activations. SDB: The SDB is disabled for the specified period of time after the user selects the SDB to prevent accidental speaking of words displayed in the SDB twice. **Force Font Size** Maintains s consistent font size for button labels. When this setting is off, the button label font size is automatically reduced as needed to allow the entire label to fit into the button area. **Highlight Touch** Briefly highlights the button when it is activated. **Gradient Fill** Gradually blends button colors into each other. **Gradient Saturation** Adjusts the saturation/opacity (intensity) of the gradient as you move the slider. - Moving the slider to the right makes colors appear more saturated/opaque (intense). - Moving the slider to the left makes colors appear less saturated/opaque (pale). **Blank Button Fill Color** Allows you to select the fill color for blank buttons. **Show Grid** Displays a visible grid in blank button areas. **Button Margin** Allows you to add extra space around buttons. Select a margin size between 1 Point and 100 Point. The default size is None. **Hide Home Page Labels** Temporarily hides the core word labels on your home page buttons**.** --- ## Prediction **Prediction Type** Allows you to select Learning + Static or Static only. - Learning + Static: Word prediction includes the ability to learn and add words to the word prediction dictionary. The settings that apply to learning are available. - Static only: Word prediction uses the word prediction dictionary. The settings that apply to learning are not available. **Learned Words** Tracks words either (1) added manually or (2) spoken in the vocabulary. These words are prioritized over the Static dictionary words. --- ## Whiteboard **Disable drawing in split view** Prevents you from drawing on the whiteboard page when split view is enabled in the iOS settings. **Scale drawing in split view** Scales whiteboard drawings according to the relative size of the app page when split view is enabled the iOS settings. **Reload last drawing** Displays the most recent drawing made on the whiteboard when you open Whiteboard. **Autosave drawing** Automatically saves whiteboard drawings. --- ## Head Tracking > [!NOTE] > **Note:** Head tracking is only available on iOS or iPadOS devices that have a front-facing TrueDepth camera. **Enable Head Tracking** Turn head tracking on or off. When this option is on, you can use small head movements to control where the pointer moves on the screen. For details, see [Head Tracking Setup](/documentation/docs/head-tracking-access-method). --- ## Social Networking > [!NOTE] > **Note:** This setting is available on non-dedicated devices only. **Allow Social Networking** Allows you to share text from the SDB with social networks. --- ## Amp Connect **Select Amp** Selects your amplifier name to make a Bluetooth connection to the app software for getting proper battery status readings. **Set up Amp** Sets left and right speaker volume, bass, and treble. --- ## Scanning **Scanning Enabled** Makes the scanning settings available. See [Switch Scanning Setup](/documentation/docs/switch-scanning-setup-1). --- ## Privacy **Share Analytics** Choose if you want to share usage data with app developers to help improve your experience.