Nauticare on Your Phone
Using Nauticare in a phone browser or the iPhone and Android apps, how navigation and lists adapt on small screens, and how push notifications work.
- Management
- Captain & crew
- Owners
You can use Nauticare on a phone or tablet either in a mobile web browser or in the Nauticare app for iPhone and Android, published as Nauticare in the App Store and in Google Play. The app is not a separate product: it opens the same cloud app you use in a browser, with the same sign-in, the same pages and the same permissions. Anything you change on your phone is there on your computer, and the other way round.
What the iPhone and Android apps add over a mobile browser is push notifications: a short alert on your phone's lock screen when a notification or a new chat message in Messaging needs your attention. Nauticare opened in a web browser, on a phone or a computer, never receives push notifications.
Always the cloud
The phone app always connects to the Nauticare cloud and needs an internet connection. It cannot reach a yacht's on-board app. Aboard a yacht that runs the on-board app, crew open it in the phone's web browser at the address they were given. See the On-board App section.
What is in this section
- Getting the app: installing it, signing in and logging out.
- Turning on push notifications: the phone's permission prompt and the Mobile switches under Account → Notifications.
- What a push says and where a tap takes you: the wording of notification and chat pushes, why details are kept out of them, and which page opens when you tap one.
- Why didn't I get a push?: a checklist for missing pushes, and how to stop pushes arriving on a phone you no longer use.
- What's different on a phone: the slide-out menu drawer and its bottom bar, how tables turn into cards, file previews, downloads and exports, taking a photo when uploading, and the page that requires a desktop screen.
Which notification types exist and how to configure them is explained in the Notifications and Alerts section; chat notifications and muting individual conversations are covered in the Messaging section.
Articles in Nauticare on Your Phone
- Getting the appInstalling the Nauticare app from the App Store or Google Play, signing in with your normal account, and logging out of a phone.
- Turning on push notificationsAllowing notifications on your phone and managing the Mobile switches under Account → Notifications (plus per-chat mute in Messaging).
- What a push says and where a tap takes youThe privacy-safe wording of notification and Messaging pushes, where tapping a push opens the app, and how vessel sync affects timing.
- What's different on a phoneHow the menu drawer, header and card lists adapt on small screens, file previews and downloads in the app, taking a photo when uploading, and the form template page that needs a computer.
- Why didn't I get a push?A checklist for missing push notifications (native app, Mobile switch, phone settings, muted chats, logout, owners, vessel sync) and stopping pushes on an old phone.