Recipe Box support

Copy the recipe page's link, tap +, choose Paste a link and tap Paste. Recipe Box pulls out the ingredients, steps, time and photo so you can check them before saving. On iPad you can also drag a link straight onto Recipe Box.

Most recipe sites work. If one doesn't, copy the recipe text and choose Type it in → Paste recipe text.

Tap + → Snap a photo, then open the camera or pick photos you already have. For recipes over two pages, add both pages in order. Recipe Box reads the text, handwriting included, and shows it for you to check before saving. The original photo stays with the card.

Tips: good light, the whole card in frame, and the camera held flat above it.

Writing "2 cups flour" rather than "flour, 2 cups" lets Recipe Box scale servings and add up your grocery list. Lines without an amount ("salt and pepper") work fine too.

Open the recipe and tap Change art. Pick one of the illustrations, change the tile color, or use a photo of your own dish.

In cook mode, turn on the microphone and say next step, go back, repeat, start timer or stop timer. Recipe Box reads each step aloud. You can change the voice and speed in Settings.

• Check that Recipe Box is allowed to use the Microphone and Speech Recognition in your device's Settings → Privacy & Security.
• Make sure the mic button in cook mode is red and says "Listening…".
• Pause for a moment after it finishes reading a step, then speak clearly.

On the Week tab, drag a recipe from the shelf onto a day, or tap Add a meal. From any recipe you can also tap Add to this week and pick a day. Drag meals between days to move them, and use − / + to change servings.

It's built from the week's meals: amounts are added up across recipes, scaled to your servings and sorted by aisle. Tick items off as you shop. Staples you always have, like salt and oil, are left off; edit that list in Settings → My pantry.

Open Recipe Box on your Watch to tick off this week's grocery list, see tonight's meal, and cook step by step. Turn the Digital Crown to move between steps, and start a step's timer to get a tap on your wrist when it's done. Tap Mark as cooked at the end and it shows on your iPhone's week too.

The Watch gets its list and meals from your iPhone. Open Recipe Box on your iPhone once with the Watch nearby and it will update. After that the Watch keeps a copy, so the list still works in a store with no signal.

Recipe Box backs up automatically once a day, to iCloud Drive › Recipe Box › Backups (or Recipe Box › Backups in the Files app if iCloud Drive is off). It keeps the last 14 days. You can also tap Back up now in Settings, or Export to save a copy anywhere you like.

To restore, go to Settings → Restore and pick a backup file. It adds what's missing and never deletes anything.

Pro adds unlimited link and photo imports (5 are free), the Apple Watch app, planning weeks ahead, printable cookbook PDFs and hands-free voice commands. Everything else, including iCloud sync and backups, is free.

On a new device, open Settings in Recipe Box and tap Restore. To cancel a subscription, go to Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions on your iPhone or iPad, at least 24 hours before it renews.

Yes. With Sync with iCloud on in Settings and the same Apple Account signed in on each device, recipes, meal plans and grocery lists stay in step automatically. The first sync can take a few minutes on a slow connection.

Not syncing? Check you're signed in to iCloud in your device's Settings, that iCloud is allowed for Recipe Box, and that you've reopened the app after turning sync on.

Open a recipe and tap the share button to send it as a picture, PDF, plain text or a Recipe Box file friends can import. For a printable cookbook, open the Cookbook tab, pick a cover and which recipes to include, and tap Make my cookbook.