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Up to six. That cap keeps every cell big enough to actually see on a phone screen — and keeps the export sharp, since a 3072 px square split six ways still gives each photo around a thousand pixels a side.

The strip only offers shapes that actually look different at your current photo count. With one photo there's nothing to arrange, so the strip is hidden. With two, a grid and a set of columns would render identically, so you get columns and rows only. From three photos up, all three appear.

The squarest one available — a 2×2 for four photos, a 3×2 for six, and so on. As soon as you tap a shape in the strip, Layout treats that as your choice and keeps using it while you add or remove photos.

Yes. Tap a cell on the canvas to select it — it picks up a coloured border — then tap any photo in the library grid to drop it into that cell alone. Every other cell keeps its photo, its size, and its framing. Tap the background around the canvas to deselect.

Double-tap that cell. It resets the photo to a clean aspect-fill with no pan or zoom. This affects only the cell you tapped — the rest of the collage is left alone.

Yes. When the collage rebuilds for a new photo count, each photo that's still in the collage keeps the pan and zoom you gave it. Only the cell shapes change.

No — the minimum is aspect-fill, meaning the photo always covers its cell completely. Zooming out past that would leave empty gaps in the collage. If you want more of a photo visible, drag its dividers to make the cell a better match for the photo's shape.

The square icon in the top bar toggles them. What you see on the canvas is what gets exported — hairlines on for a bordered look, off for photos running edge to edge.

3072 × 3072 pixels — a square, rendered at triple resolution. That's large enough to post anywhere, and generally larger than the crop most social apps apply.

No. Every collage exports as a 1:1 square.

Nowhere on its own. Choose Save Image to put it in your photo library, or send it straight to another app. If you dismiss the sheet, nothing is saved.

You've most likely granted limited photo access, which is fully supported — Layout shows the photos you've selected. To change the selection, go to Settings → Apps → Layout → Photos and either add more photos or switch to Full Access.

That photo is stored in iCloud rather than on the device, so iOS has to fetch the full-resolution original before it can go into the collage. The spinner above the canvas shows while that's happening. It's quicker on Wi‑Fi, and instant for photos already downloaded to your iPhone.

Yes. Layout runs on iPhone and iPad, and needs iOS or iPadOS 18.2 or later.

Nothing extra — and that's deliberate. Every feature in Layout is available to everyone. The tip jar in Settings holds three one-time tips for people who'd like to support the app. They aren't subscriptions and they don't unlock anything.

That's Ask to Buy — the purchase is queued until whoever manages your Family Sharing group approves it. Layout keeps listening in the background, so the thank-you appears whenever it goes through, even if you've closed the app since. No need to tap again.

Tips are consumables, so there's nothing to restore — and nothing you'd lose. All of Layout's features are already available on every device you install it on.

Please write in — support@cyclinghead.com. Layout is a small indie app and feature requests genuinely shape what gets built next.