iOS: Plan with Friends

Updated 1 week ago by Zizoh Anto

The Bible is better with Friends.

When friends join you in a Plan, you see one another’s progress as you complete days, and you can talk over each day’s content in a private discussion area. Please note: you must have at least 1 friend in order to start a group plan. If you don't have any friends, that plan will not 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 do not have the Bible App installed, they will be directed to the Bible App page on their device’s app store.
When you receive an email notification that someone commented on a Plan with Friends and you select view comment, it will open the App (if installed on the device) and redirect you to the plan. Plan with Friends is not supported on bible.com thus you cannot see the comment on any browser.

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.

Comment on plans with friends?

  1. When doing Plans with Friends, there is a Talk It Over section to comment on daily. You can find this under the devotional/list of verses.
  2. You can only comment on a plan with friends, not on a plan you are doing by yourself.
Ready to start the first day? Go to Plans, My Plans, and select this Plan.

Invite More People to Join a Plan with Friends

  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 invite people to.
  4. Top right: Select ⋯, Participants, or tap the participants' photos beneath the dates.
  5. Bottom: Select Invite Others.
You can only invite people using the Invite actions on the Participants page.
If you send someone the link using Share, although that person will be able to start the Plan on their own, they will not be able to 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 initiated, 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 cannot rejoin the Plan. Also, participants cannot 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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