Start and Manage Plans with Friends on Android
Updated 4 months ago
by
Wayne L Harms
- Plans With Friends allows you and a select group of friends to engage with God's Word by doing reading plans together
- For the differences between Plans and Plans with Friends select here
Start and manage Plans With Friends as the host
- Make sure you have the latest version of the app
- Start any plan. For information on how to start a plan select here
- Select With Friends
- Choose a start date
- The start date should be at least a day in the future, to allow people to accept
- If you have a large number of participants, give it several days
- The plan will have a specific start and end date that cannot be changed after it is started
- Catch Me Up is not a PWF feature
- Select the forward arrow
- Select friends to invite
- From your friends list in the app
- Select the friends you want to join the plan
OR - Select the link at the bottom of the page
- Select the app you want to use from the apps list on your device
- Follow the prompts in the app
- Participants will be automatically added when they accept your invitation
Join or leave a plan as a participant
- A YouVersion account is required to participate. For new account info select here
- Sign into your account and accept the invite from the host
- The plan will automatically be added to your My Plans section
- Participants can leave any time they want by selecting Menu (three dots) then Settings and then select Leave This Plan at bottom of the page
Remove a participant (host only)
- In My Plans select the desired plan
- Select Participants
- Long press on the participant you want to remove from this plan only, and then select Kick
- If the Host leaves a plan, the person who has been part of the plan the longest automatically becomes the Host
- To delete a plan the host must remove all participants first and then Leave This Plan in Settings
To change date before the plan starts (host only)
- Open plan page and select the plan
- Select Menu (three dots) in top corner and then Settings
- Select CHANGE START DATE and then choose date
How to invite others after initial start (anyone)
- From the My Plans page select the plan you want to open
- Select Menu (three dots) in top corner
- Select Participants
- Select Invite Others
- Go through the list and pick those you wish to invite OR
- Copy the link and forward it to someone not on your list
- Be sure to use the invite others link and not Share as that will only let then view plan but not join
- If the recipient does not have the Bible app installed on their device, the link will take them to the app store
- Only the host can send initial invites or remove participants from the plan
- Any member of a Friends study can add friends
- If the host removes a participant, the plan becomes a regular plan in that participant's My Plans page
- Unfortunately, if the participant is removed by the host - even by mistake - they will not be able to rejoin the plan. If a participant leaves on their own, they will be able to re-join