# Instances


> One app, many configurations. The same weather app can run three times with three cities, and each is a separate item.
Installing an app creates an **instance**: the app plus your settings. The instance is what goes in a playlist, not the app itself.

One app can have as many instances as you need. The same weather app runs three times with three cities; the same dashboard app runs against three different reports.

## Where they live

Your instances are listed under **Apps**, separate from the store you install them from, and they appear in your content library alongside everything else.

Search and the **Recently added** grouping both work on that list, which starts mattering around the point you have a dozen.

## Editing one

Open the instance and change its settings. Everything showing it follows on the next sync, exactly like editing any other content.

Editing an instance changes it **everywhere it is used**. If two screens should show the same app configured differently, that is two instances, not one edited back and forth.

## Different app, same idea

This is the same relationship content has with playlists. An instance is a thing in your library; the playlist references it. Deleting a playlist leaves the instance alone.

## Removing one

**Delete app** removes the instance. It comes out of every playlist that used it, on every screen, on the next sync.

Deleting an instance does not uninstall anything from a device and does not affect other instances of the same app. It also does not touch the connected service it was reading from.