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Is there an iPhone app?

Yes — the same app as on Android, and it runs on an iPad too. How to get it, what's different on an iPhone, and how to use Hand & Seal in Safari without the app.

On iPhoneUpdated

Yes. Hand & Seal has an iPhone app, and the same app runs on an iPad. It's in the App Store: Install the app and sign in has the steps.

The same on both phones

It's one app for both phones, and your working day in it is the same on an iPhone as on Android:

  • Your day — Today, Jobs, Books and More, booking a signing, and the requests and orders waiting for your answer.
  • At the signing — On my way, I'm here, Signing started and Signing done, journal lines with the ID's barcode read into them, photos, and closing out.
  • Your drives — recorded by themselves or when you tap Record a drive, and filed to the job they were for.
  • What reaches you — Time to leave, and alerts for a new request, a payment or a message.
  • With no signal — what you do is kept on the phone and sent when you're back.

On an iPad the app adds a sidebar with your business pages: Run your business from a tablet.

What's different on an iPhone

  • Getting it. From the App Store, where an Android phone gets it from Google Play: Install the app and sign in.
  • Signing in. Sign in with Apple is the first button, and the iPhone's own sheet signs you in with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode: Sign in with Google, Apple or a passkey.
  • Recording drives. The iPhone has its own names for what recording needs — location Always, Precise Location, Motion & Fitness and Background App Refresh: Record your drives automatically.
  • The Lock Screen. A signing in progress and a drive being recorded show as Live Activities, where Android shows notifications: Choose your notifications.
  • Quiet at signings. An iPhone app can't silence the phone itself. In place of Android's switch, the app's Settings → Notifications → Quiet at signings shows how to set up a Focus once and turn it on at the door: Quiet your phone at signings.
  • Widgets. Next signing and Record a drive, for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. Android's third widget, Automatic recording, isn't on an iPhone; make that choice in the app's Settings → Mileage & trips → Record drives: Add the home-screen widgets and shortcuts.
  • Taking a card. On a Bluetooth card reader — or your client pays by card on the invoice's own page. Tap to Pay, the card held to the phone itself, is on Android: Take a card at the signing.

Without the app: use Safari

You can run your business on an iPhone or iPad without the app, too. Everything below works in Safari: sign in at the Hand & Seal website with the same email and password (or Google, Apple, or a passkey) as anywhere else. The pages fit a phone's screen.

  • Your day — Today, Jobs, the calendar, booking a signing, and requests from clients and companies.
  • Closing out — journal lines, what it bills, and how you were paid, from Close out on the job.
  • Money — invoices, recording a payment, reminders, Books and taxes.
  • Your records — the journal index, and your mileage log.

For quick access, open the site in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.

What needs the phone app

  • Recording drives. Only the phone app records drives, automatically or when you press Record. Without it, add each signing's round trip from its job instead: Log it, under Produced by this job — see Add a drive the phone didn't record.
  • Taking a card in person, on a card reader. On the web, clients pay by card on the invoice's own page instead.
  • Reading an ID's barcode into a journal line, Time to leave, and the iPhone's widgets and Lock Screen steps.

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