KUVRT

iPhone: move from Safari to the Home Screen app

On iPhone and iPad, KUVRT on the Home Screen keeps your chats safe from being cleared, and only there can it show notifications.

  1. In Safari, tap the Share button. On newer iPhones it is behind ⋯ at the bottom.
  2. Choose "Add to Home Screen" and confirm.
  3. Open KUVRT from your Home Screen.

KUVRT in Safari and KUVRT on the Home Screen keep separate data. The app on the Home Screen starts empty.

If you already use KUVRT in Safari, do not tap "Start new" in the app. That makes a second KUVRT your contacts do not know.

Move it with an export and your recovery phrase:

  1. In Safari, open Settings, then "Export and import", and tap "Export your chats". Then tap "Save the file" and save it in the Files app.
  2. Open KUVRT from the Home Screen and tap "I already use KUVRT", then "Restore from recovery phrase".
  3. Type your 24 words and tap "Restore".
  4. In the app, open Settings, then "Export and import", and tap "Choose a file" to import the file.

Restoring cuts off KUVRT in Safari. Your contacts see that you set up KUVRT again.

Without your recovery phrase, link the app to KUVRT in Safari instead. On one phone only the app in front keeps working, so this may stop half way:

  1. In the app, tap "I already use KUVRT", then "Link with another device", then "Show my code". Note the linking code.
  2. Switch to Safari. In KUVRT there, open Settings, then "Devices", then "Add a device", type the code and tap "Continue".
  3. The digits show on both, one at a time. Tap "The digits match" in Safari if they are the same.
  4. Switch back to the app and keep it in front until it says "Your chats are on this device now."
  5. Then open Safari once more, so it can finish: it says the app is linked.

If it stops, start again on both.

What this cannot do

  • Safari deletes its data after 7 days without a visit. Until you have moved, open KUVRT there often.

How linking works

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