Help with Fives.

Fives saves each mode separately on your iPhone or iPad. Phone calls, background time and reopening the app keep your board and Career’s current new-tile range together; retired Career values do not return. The other three modes continue adding only 5 or 10. Choose Continue to return to an unfinished Career stage, or reopen an unfinished Survival, Race the Clock or No Going Back Here run.

Selecting a Career stage from the stage map starts that stage fresh with that stage’s new-tile limit. Restart also starts a new board; cleared stages, unlocked modes and best scores stay saved.

Use the same Apple Account for iCloud on both devices. In Fives → Settings, enable Continue across iPhone & iPad first on the device with the game you want to keep, and wait for a successful save. Enable it on the other device and choose the game you want if separate saves are found. Fives checks for updates when it opens, returns to the foreground or reconnects, and applies them at a safe menu or Settings screen.

All modes still work offline. Your local moves wait until internet access returns, then synchronize. Conflicting games require a choice; iCloud sharing does not combine two boards. Each device keeps its local high-score history, advertising counters, consent choices, preferences and purchases. Apple Watch shares Career unlocks separately and keeps its own boards.

If a save cannot upload, check your iCloud account, available iCloud storage and connection, then use Check iCloud now. Reset progress pauses sharing on that device and does not delete iCloud saves or other devices’ games. Re-enabling sharing may bring an existing cloud game back.

Career, Survival and Race the Clock let you reverse only your latest move during unfinished play, restoring the board and score. Career also restores its previous new-tile range. Undo in Race the Clock also removes the reversed move’s time bonus; it does not stop or rewind the running clock. A completed run is final. No Going Back Here has no undo.

In Career, the smallest value must be completely cleared, and your merges must have earned at least two values for the next range. This keeps a tiny opening merge from immediately producing large tiles. Career also applies the new-tile limit earned for that stage.

Career’s range is shown below the board. When all three values are available, their chances are 75%, 20% and 5%, from smallest to largest. When only two are earned, those weights are shared between the two; the opening 5/10 range begins at 90%/10% while the highest tile is 10 or less. Survival, Race the Clock and No Going Back Here always use 5/10 at 90%/10%; their new-tile values never progress.

Open Help → Try modes to preview Survival, Race the Clock or No Going Back Here. Previews use the real gameplay rules and show no adverts. They do not change Career progress or save scores, and exiting discards the preview board. Clear Career stages 5, 10 and 15 respectively to unlock their full modes.

Its timer uses a real deadline. Leaving the board, locking your iPhone or closing Fives does not pause it. The advertising timer counts active gameplay only.

Open Scores to see local statistics and the top 20 completed runs for Survival and Race the Clock. No Going Back Here has its own local records too. All three score histories are separate. Earlier-version scores may appear in a separate history section.

Game Center is optional. Survival, Race the Clock and No Going Back Here each have their own global leaderboard. Choose a mode in High scores, then Global and Connect Game Center. An internet connection and an Apple Game Center account are needed to upload or refresh rankings. Local play and scores work without connecting.

Remove Ads is a one-time purchase, priced at £1.99 in the UK. Other regions show their local App Store price before confirmation. It removes advertising from Fives; it is not a subscription. Apple handles the payment.

If a purchase is awaiting approval, ads are removed after the App Store confirms it. If the product is temporarily unavailable, check your connection and try again later.

Choose Restore Purchases in Fives while connected to the internet. Use the same Apple Account that made the purchase. You may be asked to sign in or confirm the restore with Apple.

If no purchase is found, check the Apple Account used for App Store purchases. Restoring Remove Ads restores that purchase entitlement; it does not restore a deleted local game save. See Apple’s in-app purchase restoration guidance or contact support if the problem continues.

In Career, Survival and No Going Back Here, five active gameplay minutes trigger a clearly labelled Ad break after the current tile movement settles. Tap Continue to view a ready advert, then resume the same board. Race the Clock has no mid-run ad-break screen. Three completed losses can make an advert due sooner at Retry, Restart, Next Stage or Menu; Race adverts appear only at natural breaks. Menus, help, scoreboards, adverts, background time and game-end notices do not count as active gameplay.

A shown or skipped advert starts a fresh time and loss cycle. Clearing a Career stage resets the loss counter, while the active-play timer continues. Restarting an unfinished game, winning a stage or expanding a board does not count as a loss. Offline or unavailable adverts are skipped without catch-up. Ads depend on availability and privacy choices. Remove Ads disables them.

The upcoming iPhone/iPad version 1.8 will also show Kickstart Exchange banners on the active main menu on iOS or iPadOS 18 or later, when advertising is permitted and a banner is available. These banners will not appear during gameplay, mode previews, Help, Scores, Settings, purchase or privacy forms, or a full-screen advert. Remove Ads will disable both Exchange banners and AdMob adverts. Version 1.7 keeps Exchange disabled. Read the advertising privacy details.

Open Help and choose Ad privacy choices when it is required for your device. Stay connected while the form opens. If you are offline or the form is not ready, Fives shows a message beside the button so you can retry. Previously required privacy choices remain available after buying Remove Ads; this does not restart advertising. Fives requests non-personalized ads. That does not mean an ad provider processes no data; read the advertising section of the privacy policy for details.

Career and all unlocked modes work in airplane mode, as do the previews in Help. Games, cleared stages and local scores save on your device. Adverts are skipped while offline. Buying or restoring Remove Ads and connecting or refreshing global rankings need an internet connection; an already verified Remove Ads purchase stays active offline.

Game progress is stored on your device without a Fives account. On iPhone and iPad, you can also enable optional iCloud saved-game sharing in Settings. Deleting the app can remove local progress and local score history; Remove Ads restoration does not restore a game. Avoid reinstalling as a troubleshooting step if you want to keep unfinished games or local records.

With VoiceOver, focus the board and choose a movement from Actions. Reduced Motion follows your iPhone settings. Gentle haptics can be switched off in How to play.

If the board or interface stops responding, close and reopen Fives, then check for an app or iOS update. Contact support if it continues; include the mode and what happened just before the problem. Race the Clock keeps running while the app is closed.