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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 tells you about your squad in two ways: push notifications while the app is closed or the device is locked, and a banner inside the app. You can answer a yes-or-no question and reply to a teammate from the notification itself.

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Who gets push notifications

Every person in the squad gets their own push notifications on their own devices, in any role. When you sign in, Squad adds this iPhone or iPad to your devices for the squad that is open. The device gets pushes for one squad at a time: when you switch squads, its pushes move to the squad that you open. Signing out removes it.
  • The owner gets the owner’s notifications.
  • A person you invited gets what their own bell shows. Their own notification settings decide which events reach the phone, not the owner’s. A push keeps only the buttons that the person can use.

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Turn notifications on

Squad asks for permission once, after your squad opens. To change your answer later:
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Open the You sheet

Select your initial at the top right of Today or Squad.
2

Open the iOS settings for Squad

Under What reaches you, select Notifications. The iOS settings for Squad open.
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Choose how they arrive

Turn on notifications for Squad, and choose banners, sounds, and the Lock Screen. Use Focus for quiet hours.
Which events reach you is set in your notification settings for Squad, on the web. A push follows the in-app choice for that event. A mention has no switch of its own. See Choose what reaches you.

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What a notification shows

The reply and mention notifications come only to the iPhone and iPad. Squad for Mac shows its own.

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Who sees the buttons

The buttons follow the same rules as an answer on the web, so a button never offers an answer that Squad refuses. Squad checks the question again when it sends the notification to a person who is not the owner. When the question is no longer open, for example because someone answered or skipped it, or was passed to another person and you can no longer answer it, the notification comes without Approve and Deny. So does a notification to a person who became a Viewer. A notification without buttons still opens what it is about.

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Answer from a notification

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Open the notification's buttons

Touch and hold the notification on the Lock Screen or in Notification Center.
2

Answer or reply

Select Approve or Deny, or Open to answer in the app. For Reply, type your reply and select Send.
3

Unlock if iOS asks

When the device is locked, iOS asks you to unlock it first. Squad then sends the answer without opening the app.
If the answer cannot be sent, a new notification says “Your answer wasn’t sent” with “Open Squad to answer it there.” If a reply cannot be sent, it says “Your reply wasn’t sent” with “Tap to open it in Squad and send it again.” Your words wait in the conversation. When Squad could not open your squad in time, the notification says “Open Squad to send it there.” and repeats your words after “You wrote:”. When the notification did not say which conversation it came from, for example a mention far back in a long conversation, nothing is sent. The new notification says “Your reply wasn’t sent” with “The notification didn’t say which conversation it’s from. Tap to open Squad and send it there.” and your words after “You wrote:”. Your reply never goes to a new or wrong conversation. Approve and Deny also answer a question that you set for later. When a question that you set for later comes back, you get a notification about it again, when your settings for A task is waiting on you send it to your phone. See Set a question for later. A button sends nothing when the notification is about another squad than the one that is open. The new notification says so, and names that squad when it can. Tap it to open that squad and answer or reply there.

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Tap a notification

A tap opens what the notification is about: A notification about another squad than the one that is open opens that squad first.

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In the app

While Squad is open:
  • A push about the conversation on your screen does not show.
  • A reply push goes to Notification Center only. The reply banner tells you instead. When the banner cannot show, for example under a sheet or while the app is not connected, the push shows as usual.
  • Any other push shows as a banner, with sound.
When a teammate replies to a conversation that is not on your screen, a banner drops in from the top with their face, their name and “replied”, and the first words. It stays for 5 seconds. An answer to a spoken question that came late says the teammate “answered your question” and has Play the answer. It stays for 12 seconds. See Hear the answer. Tap the banner to open the conversation. Swipe it up to dismiss it. The banner does not show while you talk to your squad.

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The app icon number

The number on the Squad icon counts everything that needs you, plus conversations with replies that you have not seen. See The app icon number.

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Check that it works

Lock your iPhone while a teammate works on a question for you. The notification shows the teammate’s name and “asks”. Touch and hold it, select Approve, and unlock if iOS asks. Open Squad. The question is gone from Today.