Settings
Add a shortcut on your phone
- It opens with one tap, full screen, with no address bar, and sits among your apps. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is installed from a store: it is a shortcut to this same site, asking for no permissions and creating no account.
- iPhone and iPad: open the site in Safari — the main page, not this one, because iPhone saves whichever page you are looking at. Tap Share, scroll down to Add to Home Screen, then Add.
- Android: use the button below, or open Chrome’s⋮ menu and choose Add to Home screen.
- Add it before you start a conversation. The home screen copy can keep its own storage, separate from the browser you are reading this in — on an iPhone it normally does — and where it does you arrive there as somebody new, with none of your history.
- Removing the icon removes the shortcut and nothing else.
Chrome and Edge can do this for you. In any other browser, the button shows the two taps your own one needs.
Arrival sound
A short chime when a message arrives, unless the speaker in the header is switched off. This plays it now, so you can tell whether the device will make it.
On a phone, touch the page once after opening it. A browser will not let a page make any sound until it has been touched, and waiting for a message to arrive is the one time nobody does.
Normal
This is how a message looks in System.
Normal
This is how a message looks in System.
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