Import your legacy extension settings
Moving from the legacy extension? SwiftRead can bring many of your existing reader settings and keyboard shortcuts into the current reader.
This option appears only on eligible Chrome and Edge extension profiles that already have legacy settings. Importing again replaces your current reader settings with the legacy settings.
Import your settings
- Right-click the SwiftRead extension icon and select Options.
- Under Extension Experience, select New.
- Under Import Legacy Settings, click Import settings.
- On the page that opens, click Import now if prompted.
- Review the results to see what transferred, what was adjusted, and which keyboard shortcuts were skipped.
If the button says Resume import, click it to continue where the import left off.
Settings that transfer
These settings transfer directly or are adjusted to fit the current reader's supported range.
| Legacy setting | Current reader setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| WPM (words per minute) | Reading speed | Rounded and adjusted to the current reader's supported range. |
| Chunk size | Words at a time | Counts from 1 to 4 transfer directly. Legacy counts of 5 or 6 become 4, the current maximum. |
| Font size | Focus text size | Adjusted to the current minimum or maximum when needed. This does not change the Reader text size used by Flow and Spotlight modes. |
| Font | Font | Supported fonts transfer directly. Dyslexie maps approximately to Open Dyslexic. |
| Read aloud | Narration | Transfers as on or off. |
Colors and pause settings
Some legacy settings don't have a one-to-one match in the current reader. SwiftRead brings them over using the closest available option.
Color scheme to color preset
SwiftRead chooses the closest built-in preset, such as Dark, Light, Warm, or Calm. It also creates or updates a custom preset named Legacy using your imported background and text colors, then makes that preset active.
The current reader derives a pacing/highlight color from those imported colors instead of copying the legacy center-letter highlight color directly.
Micropause settings to pause lengths
Legacy micropause settings map to the current reader's named pause lengths:
| Legacy setting | Current reader setting |
|---|---|
| Punctuation pause | Internal punctuation pause |
| Sentence-ending punctuation pause | Sentence pause |
| Paragraph pause | Paragraph pause |
| Number pause | Number pause |
| Long-word pause | Longer-word pause |
Each pause is set to None, Short, Medium, Long, or Extra Long, based on its legacy value.
Keyboard shortcuts
SwiftRead imports a shortcut when both the action and its key combination are supported in the current reader.
Supported shortcuts
- Play / pause
- Jump back
- Jump forward
- Close reader
- Speed up
- Slow down
- Toggle narration
Shortcuts skipped during import
- Reset speed
- Hide controls
- Increase or decrease words at a time
- Increase or decrease focus font size
- Toggle fullscreen
- Previous or next page
- Toggle context mode
Shortcuts that use unsupported key combinations, such as Alt/Option, are also skipped and listed on the results page.
Settings not imported
These legacy settings are not currently applied to the current reader:
- Legacy center-letter highlight color
- Legacy audio WPM and voice selection
- Context display settings
- Sanitization rules, such as inline-citation or URL sanitization
- Text scroller
- Letter spacing
- WPM interval
After the import
The results page says Legacy settings imported, and the current reader uses your imported settings immediately. Import also selects Focus mode because it most closely matches the legacy RSVP reading experience.
To review the imported word count, open a reader and click the speedometer icon to the left of Play. The value appears under Words at a time.
To try the imported settings, click the SwiftRead extension icon on a webpage and select SwiftRead current page.
If the import doesn't work
- Import Legacy Settings is missing: Import is available only when SwiftRead detects an eligible profile with legacy settings.
- The button says "Switch to New to import": Select New under Extension Experience first.
- The button says "Resume import": Click it to continue where the import left off.
- A setting looks different: Review the results for adjusted values, then fine-tune that setting in the current reader.
- The import still fails: Reach out via the chat button in the bottom-right corner. Include whether you're using Chrome or Edge and what the results page says, or a screenshot of where the import stops.