Wiggle on
iPhone.

IPHONE / 01

Your first touch

1. Open Wiggle. Use Quick start or Learn later; replay the introduction from Settings anytime.
2. Turn off Silent Mode, check the speaker button is not muted, and choose a gentle level in Settings > Music > Volume. Device volume and connected audio devices matter too.
3. Hold a finger on the surface for a note, slide sideways for pitch and up or down for tone, then release every finger. A short release or echo can fade out.
4. Choose Bloom, Bubble or Sunny using the world buttons below the canvas. Each world remembers its own customized sound and visuals.

IPHONE / 02

Toolbar and multi-finger play

1. Use the toolbar's Settings button for the regular settings sheet, the speaker button to mute music, and the expand button for full-screen play.
2. In Settings > Play controls, enable Vertical notes to put pitch on the bottom-to-top axis. Choose Fingers: Newest leads, First leads or Blend positions.
3. Newest leads gives control to your latest finger; First leads keeps the oldest remaining finger in charge; Blend uses their average position. There is one live synth voice, not a separate chord voice per finger.
4. In each world's Visual tuning, enable Touch guide for a solid playing ring, dashed waiting fingers and a shared-center indicator in Blend.

IPHONE / 03

Notes and expression

1. In Settings > Music, choose Key, Scale, Octave and Note range. These are shared across all three worlds.
2. Enable Show notes for a named touch map. Its playing-note highlight follows the controlling finger or Blend center; it clears on release, mute, Settings or backgrounding.
3. Choose Half octave, One octave, Two octaves or Three octaves. Wider ranges fit more notes into smaller touch regions. Rotate the phone if you want more width for horizontal notes.
4. Adjust Effect depth and optional Tilt for expression. Tilt alone does not start a note. The guide highlights live touch input, not recorded-loop playback.

IPHONE / 04

Record, loop and jam

1. Choose tempo in Settings > Play controls > Loop tempo. Expand Loop & jam below the surface and select Record 4 beats.
2. Play a phrase during recording. It finishes after four beats, or use Finish recording. Empty recordings do not become playable loops.
3. Select Play loop and improvise over the phrase. Release ends your live note but not the deliberately playing loop.
4. Use Stop loop or Clear. Settings, mute and leaving the foreground also stop playback. Phrases stay in memory and are not an exported audio or MIDI library.

IPHONE / 05

Full-screen and family play

1. Set the sound and volume, then enable Full-screen play with the toolbar expand button or Settings toggle.
2. Triple-tap the top-left gear to open Settings or the top-right world icon to change worlds. You do not need to exit full-screen to switch worlds.
3. Full-screen hides controls, but it does not lock the device. For Apple's separate one-app restriction, follow Guided Access instructions in the complete guide. Learn its exit steps before handing the phone over.
4. Stay nearby, start quietly, and take short turns. This is a creative toy, not a developmental or medical tool.

Guided Access setup and exit instructions →

IPHONE / 06

Optional Watch companion

1. The iPhone instrument works without a Watch. If you do have a paired Watch, install compatible Wiggle builds on both devices.
2. In Settings > Optional Watch companion, choose Send these settings to Watch. Shared musical choices and all three world setups are copied only when you ask.
3. Local volume, finger/axis preferences, touches and phrases are not copied. The latest snapshot can queue when the Watch is unreachable.

SHARED FEATURE REFERENCE

Make each world your own instrument

Open the Customize entry for your selected world in Settings. In the editor, check the World selector before changing anything. Changes here belong only to that world and save automatically.

Voice

Keep World original or choose Soft, Round or Bright as a new starting character.

Harmonics

Move from a purer sound toward a richer tone.

Filter

Move from warmer to more open and bright.

Motion

Adjust the amount of gentle vibrato or movement.

Space

Adjust the short echo, from drier to more spacious.

Envelope > Attack / Release

Choose a quicker or softer onset and a shorter or more lingering fade. Release is bounded; lifting all fingers still ends the held note.

Hear this sound auditions the selected setup when music is enabled. Reset this world asks for confirmation and restores only that world's sound and visuals. It does not reset the other worlds, your key, scale or volume.

Key, scale, octave, note range, effect depth and general play controls are shared across worlds. Your customized sound character and visual setup are per world.

SHARED FEATURE REFERENCE

Choose the look and the particles

In Customize world, visual choices are saved separately for Bloom, Bubble and Sunny. They do not alter pitch, sound or finger ownership.

Style

Playful preserves each world's original art. Orbits, Prism, Ripples and Constellation offer rings, facets or connected stars.

Particles

Choose World original, Sparks, Bubbles, Petals, Diamonds, Mixed, Hearts, Music notes, Emoji or Note labels. World original follows the selected style. Mixed varies between sparks, bubbles, petals and diamonds.

Emoji

When Emoji is selected, choose one of eight curated symbols: Star, Heart, Flower, Butterfly, Bubbles, Music, Planet or Smile.

Note labels

Emit pitch names such as C4 from the playing position. Labels match the key, scale and range when each particle is created, and keep that pitch as they fade. Waiting fingers do not emit these labels; Blend emits from the shared center.

Color shift / Trail size / Moving background

Adjust the palette and trail size, or stop the backdrop from moving.

Visual tuning

Adjust Trail brightness, Background level and Spread. A background level of zero removes the backdrop. Touch guide can be enabled or disabled separately.

Visual energy

Calm, Balanced and Vivid adjust overall particle density in Play controls. This is a general setting, not a per-world style.

Note labels are different from Music notes: Music notes uses a decorative musical-note symbol, while Note labels shows the pitch name. Neither choice automatically turns on the fixed Show notes map.

Low Power Mode and Reduce Motion reduce animation automatically. Choose Calm, reduce brightness or disable Moving background if you prefer a quieter screen.

SHARED FEATURE REFERENCE

Troubleshooting and privacy

No sound

Check Silent Mode, Music/mute, Wiggle volume, device volume and connected audio devices. Touch again after an audio interruption.

Watch closes under several fingers

A cover-to-dismiss system gesture can look like a crash. Try one or two fingers without covering most of the display. If the app exits during ordinary play, report the device and steps to support.

Settings seem different from these pictures

Confirm your app version and device. Watch Settings is compact; phone/tablet layout, menu style and text size differ. Scroll to reveal additional controls.

Changing one world affects the others

Key, scale, note range, Show notes and general play controls are shared. Customize world sound and visual choices are independent. Check which World is selected before editing or resetting.

Nothing plays after returning

Wiggle stops expensive audio and interaction work when inactive. Return to the foreground and touch again; it does not automatically resume a held note.

The native app needs no account and has no ads, analytics, tracking or developer-operated sound server. Preferences stay on the device. Optional paired-device settings transfer is deliberate. Tilt is processed locally and phrases contain musical events, not microphone recordings.

The website demo is a simplified browser sketch, not the complete native synth, settings editor or a Watch-speaker simulation. Website hosting and any optional adult launch emails have their own privacy details.

For help, email support@playwiggle.com with your device, OS version, Wiggle version and steps to reproduce. Do not include passwords or a child's personal information. Support messages do not subscribe you to launch emails.

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