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Add the home-screen widgets and shortcuts

Record a drive and Next signing on your home screen — Android adds Automatic recording, an iPhone the Lock Screen — and four shortcuts on the app's icon. What each does, and how to add them.

On Android and iPhoneUpdated

Widgets put the few things you do on the road on your home screen, one tap away. Both phones have Record a drive and Next signing. Android has a third, Automatic recording; an iPhone can put its two on the Lock Screen as well.

The widgets

Android's widget list for Hand & Seal: Automatic recording, Record a drive and Next signing
Android's widget list for Hand & Seal: Automatic recording, Record a drive and Next signing
  • Record a drive (small). Tap Record to start recording a drive, tap again to stop it. While it records it says Recording since and the time — see Record a drive yourself.
  • Automatic recording (small). Auto-record switched On or Off with one tap. Off is Only when I tap Record in Settings → Mileage & trips → Record drives; On is your automatic choice there — During my working hours, or All the time. Paused means it's on, but you're outside your working hours just now, or your plan has ended.
  • Next signing (large). Your next confirmed signing: the day and time, what it is and the town, and Leave by (it turns to Leave now once it's time — Android redraws a widget about every half hour, and whenever you open the app). Tap Navigate to set off — the drive is recorded — then the next step: On my way, I'm here, Signing started, Signing done. Undo takes the last step back. Once the signing is done it offers Close out. It never shows the signer's or client's name: a home screen is seen by anyone near your phone.
Two widgets on a home screen: Next signing, with Leave by, Navigate and On my way, and Record a drive
Two widgets on a home screen: Next signing, with Leave by, Navigate and On my way, and Record a drive

Add a widget

  1. Press and hold an empty part of your home screen, then tap Widgets.

  2. Search for Hand & Seal, or scroll to it, and tap it to see its three widgets.

  3. Press and hold the one you want, and drag it onto your home screen. Let go where you want it.

To take one off, press and hold it and drag it to Remove. Your phone's maker may word these steps a little differently.

The shortcuts on the app's icon

Press and hold the Hand & Seal icon for four shortcuts, the same four on both phones:

  1. Record a drive — starts recording at once.

  2. New job — books a signing.

  3. Add an expense — opens Expenses, to log a cost and its receipt.

  4. Mileage — the drives waiting to be filed.

Press and hold the app's icon: Record a drive, New job, Add an expense and Mileage
Press and hold the app's icon: Record a drive, New job, Add an expense and Mileage

Press and hold the icon on your home screen or in your list of apps. Drag any of the four onto your home screen for an icon of its own.

Good to know

  • Tapping Record on the widget, or the Record a drive shortcut, opens the app: a recording starts only from inside the app. On Android, Stop on the widget works without opening it; on an iPhone the widget opens the app, where Stop is.
  • A step you take with no signal is kept on the phone and sent when you're back.
  • Signed in as an assistant? The widgets say For the notary: drives and signings belong to the notary.

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