diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/SettingsView.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/SettingsView.tsx
index 630a534..69d93b4 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/SettingsView.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/SettingsView.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react'
 import {
   Input,
+  Button,
   Caption1,
+  Subtitle2,
   Skeleton,
   SkeletonItem,
   makeStyles,
@@ -29,26 +31,56 @@ const useStyles = makeStyles({
     display: 'flex',
     flexDirection: 'column',
     gap: SPACE.section
+  },
+  // The section jump nav (UX7): a row of anchor buttons under the search box.
+  sectionNav: {
+    display: 'flex',
+    gap: SPACE.xtight,
+    flexWrap: 'wrap'
+  },
+  sectionHeading: {
+    color: tokens.colorNeutralForeground3,
+    paddingTop: SPACE.tight
+  },
+  section: {
+    display: 'flex',
+    flexDirection: 'column',
+    gap: SPACE.section,
+    // Anchor scrolling lands the heading just below the screen padding.
+    scrollMarginTop: SPACE.section
   }
 })
 
-// The cards, in display order. Rendered inside React-owned wrappers so the search
-// filter controls each card's visibility via state instead of mutating the card's
-// own DOM `style` (M14) — which broke if a card ever set its own inline style.
-const CARDS = [
-  DownloadsCard,
-  AppearanceCard,
-  PostProcessingCard,
-  NetworkCard,
-  CookiesCard,
-  CustomCommandsCard,
-  FilenamesCard,
-  BackupCard,
-  DiagnosticsCard,
-  SoftwareUpdateCard,
-  AboutCard
+type CardComponent = () => React.JSX.Element
+
+/**
+ * The cards, grouped into stable sections (UX7) with a jump nav — Settings used
+ * to be one unsegmented ~11-card scroll. Related cards are co-located: the
+ * Downloads section holds the format defaults AND the post-processing card so
+ * the two halves of "format" sit together (UX8). Cards render inside
+ * React-owned wrappers so the search filter controls each card's visibility via
+ * state instead of mutating the card's own DOM `style` (M14).
+ */
+const SECTIONS: { id: string; title: string; cards: CardComponent[] }[] = [
+  { id: 'downloads', title: 'Downloads', cards: [DownloadsCard, PostProcessingCard, FilenamesCard] },
+  { id: 'appearance', title: 'Appearance', cards: [AppearanceCard] },
+  { id: 'network', title: 'Network & accounts', cards: [NetworkCard, CookiesCard] },
+  { id: 'advanced', title: 'Advanced', cards: [CustomCommandsCard] },
+  {
+    id: 'app',
+    title: 'App & maintenance',
+    cards: [BackupCard, DiagnosticsCard, SoftwareUpdateCard, AboutCard]
+  }
 ]
 
+// Flat list in render order — the search filter indexes cards globally.
+const CARDS: CardComponent[] = SECTIONS.flatMap((s) => s.cards)
+// Each section's [start, end) range into CARDS.
+const SECTION_RANGES = SECTIONS.map((s, si) => {
+  const start = SECTIONS.slice(0, si).reduce((n, x) => n + x.cards.length, 0)
+  return { start, end: start + s.cards.length }
+})
+
 export function SettingsView(): React.JSX.Element {
   const styles = useStyles()
   const screen = useScreenStyles()
@@ -62,6 +94,7 @@ export function SettingsView(): React.JSX.Element {
   // visibility, rather than us writing `display:none` onto React's own card nodes (M14).
   const [search, setSearch] = useState('')
   const cardRefs = useRef<(HTMLDivElement | null)[]>([])
+  const sectionRefs = useRef<(HTMLDivElement | null)[]>([])
   const [hidden, setHidden] = useState<boolean[]>(() => CARDS.map(() => false))
 
   useEffect(() => {
@@ -76,6 +109,11 @@ export function SettingsView(): React.JSX.Element {
   }, [search])
 
   const noResults = search.trim() !== '' && hidden.length > 0 && hidden.every(Boolean)
+  const searching = search.trim() !== ''
+
+  function jumpTo(si: number): void {
+    sectionRefs.current[si]?.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth', block: 'start' })
+  }
 
   return (
     <div className={screen.page}>
@@ -100,6 +138,17 @@ export function SettingsView(): React.JSX.Element {
           )}
         </div>
 
+        {/* Section jump nav (UX7). Hidden while searching — the filter is the finder then. */}
+        {loaded && !searching && (
+          <nav className={styles.sectionNav} aria-label="Settings sections">
+            {SECTIONS.map((s, si) => (
+              <Button key={s.id} size="small" appearance="subtle" onClick={() => jumpTo(si)}>
+                {s.title}
+              </Button>
+            ))}
+          </nav>
+        )}
+
         {!loaded ? (
           // Boot skeleton (UX26): three placeholder cards while persisted settings
           // load, instead of a flash of fallback values.
@@ -109,18 +158,41 @@ export function SettingsView(): React.JSX.Element {
             ))}
           </Skeleton>
         ) : (
-          CARDS.map((Card, i) => (
-            <div
-              // Static array, never reordered/filtered (cards only hide) — index key is stable.
-              key={i}
-              ref={(el) => {
-                cardRefs.current[i] = el
-              }}
-              style={hidden[i] ? { display: 'none' } : undefined}
-            >
-              <Card />
-            </div>
-          ))
+          SECTIONS.map((section, si) => {
+            const range = SECTION_RANGES[si]!
+            // A section disappears with all of its cards during a search.
+            const sectionHidden = section.cards.every((_, ci) => hidden[range.start + ci])
+            return (
+              <div
+                key={section.id}
+                ref={(el) => {
+                  sectionRefs.current[si] = el
+                }}
+                className={styles.section}
+                style={sectionHidden ? { display: 'none' } : undefined}
+              >
+                <Subtitle2 as="h2" className={styles.sectionHeading}>
+                  {section.title}
+                </Subtitle2>
+                {section.cards.map((Card, ci) => {
+                  const i = range.start + ci
+                  return (
+                    <div
+                      // Static arrays, never reordered/filtered (cards only hide) —
+                      // index keys are stable.
+                      key={ci}
+                      ref={(el) => {
+                        cardRefs.current[i] = el
+                      }}
+                      style={hidden[i] ? { display: 'none' } : undefined}
+                    >
+                      <Card />
+                    </div>
+                  )
+                })}
+              </div>
+            )
+          })
         )}
       </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/AboutCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/AboutCard.tsx
index 553cba1..b795d67 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/AboutCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/AboutCard.tsx
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export function AboutCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <InfoRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">About</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">About</Subtitle2>
       </div>
       <Caption1 className={styles.hint}>
         AeroFetch is a generic frontend for yt-dlp. It bundles ffmpeg and manages its own copy of
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/AppearanceCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/AppearanceCard.tsx
index 783728e..e220d06 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/AppearanceCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/AppearanceCard.tsx
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export function AppearanceCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <PaintBucketRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">Appearance</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">Appearance</Subtitle2>
       </div>
 
       <Field label="Theme">
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/BackupCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/BackupCard.tsx
index 9f45e41..e309a79 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/BackupCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/BackupCard.tsx
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export function BackupCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <DocumentArrowDownRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">Backup &amp; restore</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">Backup &amp; restore</Subtitle2>
       </div>
       <Caption1 className={styles.hint}>
         Save your settings and custom-command templates to a JSON file, or restore them on another
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/CookiesCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/CookiesCard.tsx
index fa4daec..54e2590 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/CookiesCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/CookiesCard.tsx
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ export function CookiesCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <CookiesRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">Cookies</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">Cookies</Subtitle2>
       </div>
       <Caption1 className={styles.hint}>
         Some sites only serve full quality, age-restricted, or members-only video to a logged-in
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/CustomCommandsCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/CustomCommandsCard.tsx
index e66b89d..7989036 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/CustomCommandsCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/CustomCommandsCard.tsx
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ export function CustomCommandsCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <CodeRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">Custom commands</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">Custom commands</Subtitle2>
       </div>
       <Caption1 className={styles.hint}>
         Named templates of extra yt-dlp flags -- your own power-user recipes (e.g.
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/DiagnosticsCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/DiagnosticsCard.tsx
index 20f51ae..32eef82 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/DiagnosticsCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/DiagnosticsCard.tsx
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ export function DiagnosticsCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <BugRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">Diagnostics</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">Diagnostics</Subtitle2>
       </div>
       <Caption1 className={styles.hint}>
         Failed downloads are logged here even after you clear the queue, so you can copy the details
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/DownloadsCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/DownloadsCard.tsx
index 910dfda..b248dec 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/DownloadsCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/DownloadsCard.tsx
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export function DownloadsCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <ArrowDownloadRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">Downloads</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">Downloads</Subtitle2>
       </div>
 
       <Field
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/FilenamesCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/FilenamesCard.tsx
index 07a2164..7521a09 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/FilenamesCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/FilenamesCard.tsx
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export function FilenamesCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <DocumentRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">Filenames</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">Filenames</Subtitle2>
       </div>
       <Field
         label="Filename template"
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/NetworkCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/NetworkCard.tsx
index 62eec0d..6520d7c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/NetworkCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/NetworkCard.tsx
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export function NetworkCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <GlobeRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">Network</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">Network</Subtitle2>
       </div>
 
       <Field
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/PostProcessingCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/PostProcessingCard.tsx
index 63c0cc9..74b765c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/PostProcessingCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/PostProcessingCard.tsx
@@ -14,10 +14,14 @@ export function PostProcessingCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <OptionsRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">Format &amp; post-processing</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">Post-processing</Subtitle2>
       </div>
+      {/* UX8: this card is the advanced half — the default format itself (video/
+          audio + quality) lives in the Downloads card, co-located just above. */}
       <Caption1 className={styles.hint}>
-        Defaults applied to every new download (yt-dlp and ffmpeg do the work).
+        Advanced conversion applied to every new download — container, codec, subtitles,
+        SponsorBlock (yt-dlp and ffmpeg do the work). The default format itself is set in the
+        Downloads card above.
       </Caption1>
 
       <DownloadOptionsForm
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/SoftwareUpdateCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/SoftwareUpdateCard.tsx
index 9cccb85..61c95cb 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/settings/SoftwareUpdateCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/settings/SoftwareUpdateCard.tsx
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export function SoftwareUpdateCard(): React.JSX.Element {
     <Card className={styles.card}>
       <div className={styles.sectionHeader}>
         <ArrowSyncRegular className={styles.sectionIcon} />
-        <Subtitle2 as="h2">Software update</Subtitle2>
+        <Subtitle2 as="h3">Software update</Subtitle2>
       </div>
       <Caption1 className={styles.hint}>
         {appVersion