Circles
Groups for your building, street, school or club. 27 articles.
Basics
- What is a circle?Circles are groups neighbors start for a building, street, school or club, with group chats, a Board of tools and a buy and sell room.
- Kinds of circle and the groups they start withThe six kinds of circle, the starter groups each gets, which Board tools come with it, and how apartment circles count one vote per home.
- Open, closed and invite-only circlesWho can find a circle, who can get in and who can read it, for each privacy setting, plus the extra joining rules admins can switch on.
- My circles and DiscoverHow the app's Circles tab works: My circles with All, Unread and I run, what each row shows, Discover's nearby list, and the website's Circles page.
Joining
- How do I find and join a circle?Find circles near you on Discover, then Join an open circle or Request a closed one, and withdraw a request you no longer want.
- Join a circle with an invite codeType a circle's eight-character invite code, like K7QX-48PT, to find and join it, and what to check when a code doesn't work.
- Join from an invite link or QR codeWhat happens when you open a circle invite link or scan its QR code, whether you join straight away or wait, and what to do if it fails.
- Accept or decline an invitation to a circleNobody is added to a circle without agreeing. Where circle invitations show up, and what happens when you accept or decline one.
- Join questions and your door numberAnswer a circle's join questions, give your door or flat number for one vote per home, and change your door or tag later.
- Circle rules and “I agree”Read a circle's house rules, agree to them when you join, and why you can't post until you agree again after the rules change.
- How do I leave a circle?Leave a circle and all its groups from its About page, what happens to your messages, and why the owner has to hand over first.
Your circle
- Your circle's About pageOpen a circle's About page to see its kind, privacy and members, and reach your saved messages, door and tag, mute and leave options.
- Pin circles to your Home and arrange themKeep up to 12 circles, groups and chats at the front of your Home in the app, pin circles on the website, and drag them into order.
- Join, request and leave groups in a circleGroups are smaller chats inside a circle. Join open ones, ask to join private ones, pin or mute them, and leave without leaving the circle.
- The Buy & sell and Polls & events roomsTwo read-only rooms that gather every listing, group buy, poll and event from a circle's groups, with filters to find what you need.
- What is the Announcements group?Announcements is a circle group where only admins post and every member is in. Why you can't reply there, and how to hear only notices.
- Search messages, groups and people in a circleSearch every group you're in at once with 2 or more letters, filter by date, or search a single group, and why some messages don't show.
- Save messages in a circle and find them laterSave a circle message, like a plumber's number, and find it under Saved messages. They're private, per circle, and easy to remove.
The board
- What's on a circle's Board?The Board holds a circle's tools beyond chat: trusted helpers, help desk, alerts, space booking, numbers and rules, depending on its kind.
- Find and add trusted helpers in your circleYour circle's shared list of maids, plumbers and others neighbors use. Add someone, vouch with I use them too, or raise a private concern.
- Report a problem on the help deskReport a building issue in an apartment circle, say Me too on one already reported, and follow it from Open to In progress to Resolved.
- Report a power cut and set timing remindersTell your circle when power or water goes out, say Me too or It's back, and get reminders for the water tanker or garbage van.
- Book the clubhouse or another shared spaceBook a clubhouse, party hall or guest parking in an apartment circle, see your bookings, cancel one, and how admins approve requests.
- Important numbers for your circleCall the security gate, office or emergency numbers from your circle's Board, and how admins add, sort and remove numbers.
- Change your circle's bottom barIn the app, choose the three places in a circle's bottom bar for yourself, or as an admin set the bar every member starts with.
Starting one
- How do I start a circle?Start a circle for your building, street, school or club in four steps, with every field explained: what is required, the limits and what each does.
- Invite people to your circleInvite neighbors with a link on WhatsApp, a QR code for the notice board, the circle's code, or by name, and what happens when they use them.
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