Support

Help for Motes: Fidget With Light, an iPhone app by Orlien Studio.

What Motes is

Each day, Motes shows one generative field of glowing light, made of thousands of tiny motes.

• The same for everyone. The field is seeded by the local date, so everyone gets the same one for that date. A new field arrives at local midnight.
• Touch it. Tap, drag, and hold (rest a finger). When you let go, the field heals back to its calm pattern.
• Sound and haptics. The sound is procedural: it is generated live on your iPhone. It follows the ringer (silent) switch. There are gentle haptics, too.
• Streak. A small number shows your streak: the days in a row you opened the app.
• Share. Tap, and a share button appears at the bottom for a moment. It makes a short video clip of the last few seconds, or of a secret you just found, with its sound and the date. The clip is made on your iPhone only when you tap the share button. It is shared only where you choose in the iOS share sheet.

Questions

I hear no sound.

Motes follows the ringer switch. Turn Silent mode off with the Ring/Silent switch, or with the Action button or Control Center on newer iPhones. Then turn the volume up. Clips you share always keep their sound, even in Silent mode.

The field changed.

A new field arrives every day at local midnight. Everyone gets the same one for that date.

How do I reset my streak?

Delete the app. Your streak is stored only on your iPhone, so it is deleted with the app.

Is there a secret?

Yes, one each day. There are deliberately no hints.

I found the secret, but the next time it was quieter.

That is by design. The full reveal plays once a day. After that, the same secret answers with a softer echo. Tomorrow brings a new field with its own secret.

Contact

Need more help? Email Orlien Studio at orlien.test@gmail.com.