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Squad for iPhone and iPad is in beta, so it installs through Apple’s TestFlight app. See Get Squad for iPhone and iPad. “The Mac” on these pages means Squad for Mac.
Squad for iPhone and iPad has three tabs in a bar that floats at the bottom of the screen, and your chief of staff’s face beside the bar.

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The tabs

  • Each tab keeps its place when you leave it and come back.
  • Select the tab you are on again to go back to its start.
  • A conversation fills the screen. The tab bar steps out of the way, and the message box takes its place. Select Back to see the bar again.
  • When a link or a notification opens a conversation, the app moves to Chats.

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The face beside the tab bar

Your chief of staff’s face sits beside the tab bar on every tab. A Viewer has no face beside the tab bar, because a Viewer cannot send messages.

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Sheets that open over the app

These open as a sheet over the tab you are on. Select Done or Cancel, or swipe the sheet down, to close it.

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On an iPad

The iPad has the same three tabs and the same screens as the iPhone. The screens keep a column of readable width in the middle, and the tab bar stays narrow at the bottom. A conversation’s message bar spans the whole width of the screen. On iPhone the app shows in portrait only. On iPad it turns with the device.
  • Search at the top of Chats finds conversations by teammate, title, and last message. From the second letter, it also finds documents and email. See Search.
  • iOS Spotlight finds your teammates, the tasks that are not done, and your docs. A teammate opens a conversation with them. A task or a doc opens to read.
Links that start with squad:// open the app. Some of them: Inside the app, a squad.so dashboard link in a message opens the same place in the app when the app has it. A link to a document, an email, a task, a contact, or a deal opens it to read. A link to a project opens Chats with that project’s conversations. A link to Contacts without a contact or a deal, or to the Wallet, opens Today. A link that arrives while a page is open closes that page first. A link to settings opens the You sheet. A link to a place that the app does not have, for example runs, routines, skills, or your cloud computer, opens the Squad tab. A Squad docs link opens in the browser. A squad:// link that names another of your squads opens that squad first.

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Appearance

The app has a light and a dark look. By default it matches your iPhone or iPad. To choose, open the You sheet and select Match iPhone, Light, or Dark under This iPhone. On an iPad, these are Match iPad and This iPad. The choice applies at once, and only on this device. The widgets follow the look of your Home Screen. The Live Activity card on the Lock Screen is always dark.

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Text size

The app follows the text size that you set in iOS, up to the largest accessibility sizes. At the accessibility sizes, sheets open at full height and the teammate cards on Squad show one per row. The tab bar stops growing at a certain size. Touch and hold a tab to see its name large.