Global Saves

While the Save Browser works one game at a time, the Global Save Manager shows every save folder across your entire library in one place — Local and iCloud alike. This page also covers the backup settings (in Settings → Save & Data) that control how often Sakura backs saves up.

Open the Global Save Manager from Library → ⋯ menu. Each row shows:

• The folder’s storage icon (Local or iCloud)
• Its name
• How many save files it holds
• Which games are linked to it — shown as Unlinked, a single game’s name, or “N games” if several titles share the folder

Sort the list by Name, Save Count, or Linked Games.

Tap a row’s menu for:

• Open Saves — jumps to that game’s Save Browser (or lets you pick, if more than one game shares the folder)
• Rename — cascades to every game linked to the folder
• Delete — removes the folder and all its saves. If other games are linked to it, the confirmation tells you how many will lose their saves. Deletion is a soft delete with a 5-second Undo.

The … menu at the top gives you:

• Create New Save Folder
• Back Up All Save Folders — zips every save folder in your library (Local and iCloud, linked or not) into one archive and hands it to the iOS share sheet. This is a one-off export for safekeeping elsewhere — it does not appear in the Backup Browser below.
• Backups — opens the Backup Browser

Sakura can back up a game’s save folder automatically, right before each launch, and you can also trigger a backup manually at any time from the Save Browser.

• Automatic Save Backups (Settings → Save & Data) — on by default. Every time you launch a game, Sakura zips its save folder into a rotating set of backup slots, as long as the folder exists and isn’t empty.
• Max Backup Slots — how many automatic backups to keep per game, from 1–10 (default 2). Once full, the oldest excess slot is replaced.
• Max Manual Backups — how many manually-triggered backups to keep per game, from 1–50 (default 15). Oldest manual backups beyond this limit are removed when you make a new one.

Both limits sync across your devices via iCloud, so you only need to set them once.

The iCloud Backups toggle (Settings → Save & Data, off by default) decides where backups themselves are stored — separately from whether a game’s saves sync via iCloud. When it’s on, backups are written to your iCloud container instead of local storage, and the Backup Browser shows an iCloud section alongside Local.

This setting is device-specific and isn’t synced to your other devices.

Open the Backup Browser from the Global Save Manager’s … menu, or from a game’s Save Browser toolbar (Restore from Backup). It lists every backup grouped by game, labeled Auto Backup · Slot N or Manual Backup, along with its date and size.

To restore:

1. Tap a backup’s inline restore button, or open its context menu and choose Restore.
2. Confirm — restoring overwrites the current save files for that game with the contents of the chosen backup.

Restoring merges the backup’s contents into the save folder, so a backup taken from a partial selection of saves still restores cleanly. You can also multi-select backups to delete them in bulk; like other deletes in Sakura, this goes through a 5-second Undo before it’s final.

See Save Management for per-game saves, linking, and local vs. iCloud storage.