iOS: Plan with Friends

Updated 1 month ago by Zizoh Anto

The Bible is better with friends.

When friends join you in a Plan, you see each other’s progress as you finish days. You can talk about each day’s content in a private discussion area. Please note: you must have at least one friend to start a group plan. If you don’t have any friends, that plan won’t display any options, and the plan will just start.

Although joining a Plan with Friends requires a free YouVersion account, you can share the Plan with anyone you want. If a friend clicks the link, but they don’t have the Bible App, they’ll go to the Bible App page on their device’s app store.

Start a Plan with Friends

When you find a Plan you want to do with friends:

  1. Select Start Plan.
  2. Select With Friends.
  3. Select a Start Date.
    Choose a date far enough in the future to give your friends time to accept it before it starts.
  4. Bottom right: select Invite your Friends.
  5. Select any Friend(s) you want to invite (max: 150). ✓ Is displayed next to the name of each friend you select.
    Deselect: select a friend’s name again.
    Bottom: select the Share icon to invite via text message, WhatsApp, email, or another app.
  6. Bottom: select Invite Friends Later or Invite Friends. This Plan is added to My Plans with a start date reminder.
    Anytime before the Plan starts, you can change the start date under Settings, Change Start Date.
Ready to start the first day? Go to Plans, My Plans and select this Plan.

Comments on Plan with Friends

You can receive email notifications from participants in Plans. When you receive an email, you can see the individual comments by selecting View Comment. When you Write your response, it doesn’t go back to the individual but becomes part of the comments of the day under Talk it over.
  1. Select the Plans tab.
  2. Select My Plans for ongoing Plans or Completed for completed Plans.
  3. Select the Plan you want to add a comment on or read comments on.
  4. Select the day.
  5. Select Talk It Over.
    This will display all existing comments.
  6. Add a Comment.
    1. To join the conversation, select the Comment field at the bottom.
    2. Type in your Comment.
    3. Bottom right: select Post.
      Or
      Cancel without sharing: top left: select Cancel.

View Participants

  1. Select the Plan.
  2. Top right: select ⋯, Participants, or tap the participants’ photos beneath the dates.
  3. Select any participant to view their profile.

Invite More People to Join a Plan with Friends

  1. Select the Plan you want to invite people to.
  2. Top right: select ⋯, Participants, or tap the participants’ photos beneath the dates.
  3. Bottom: select Invite Others.
Only Plan hosts can invite people, and invitations can only be sent from the Participants page.
If you send someone the link using Share, they can start the Plan on their own. But they can’t join the Plan with Friends version.

Leave a Plan with Friends

If a friend invited you to a Plan and you accepted, you can leave at any time. If you invite Friends to a Plan and any of them accept the invite, you are the Plan Host. If the Host leaves a Plan they started, the first person who accepted an invitation becomes the new Host.

If you are the Host and you want to stop a Plan:
1. Remove all of the Participants
2. Stop the Plan

To leave a Plan:

  1. Select the Plans tab, if it isn’t already.
  2. Select My Plans, if it isn’t already.
  3. Select the Plan you want to leave.
  4. Top right: select ⋯, Leave this Plan.

Remove a Participant

When you invite friends to a Plan, you become the Host of that Plan. Only the Host of a Plan can remove participants from it. (Participants may also choose to leave a Plan.)

When you remove a participant from a Plan with Friends, the Plan becomes a regular Plan in their My Plans.

Be careful removing participants. Once the Host removes a participant, that person can’t rejoin the Plan. Also, participants can’t rejoin the Plan if they leave.
  1. Select the Plans tab, if it isn’t already.
  2. Select My Plans, if it isn’t already.
  3. Select the Plan you’re removing someone from.
  4. Top right: select ⋯, Participants.
  5. Swipe from right to left over the participant you want to remove, then remove.

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