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From the desktop to your phone, in one tap

· 2 min read
Massimo Di Stefano
FastGIS author

You plan at the desk and ride with the phone. Now the desktop can hand a plan, or anything else in your library, to the phone: press Send to phone, and a notification arrives there. Tap it and the plan opens in the app's planner, ready to ride.

From the planner​

Send to phone sits beside Save to library under the route's figures. A plan you have saved goes at once. A plan you have not saved yet, or changed since, opens the save form first, its name filled in and its button reading Save and send: the phone opens what is in your library, so the plan is saved on the way. Cancel sends nothing.

From the library​

In the Library, Send to phone is with the other actions of the Selection panel, for one item or many (up to twenty at a time; a collection counts as one and opens with its items). On the phone a planned route opens in the planner; a track, a ride or a place opens in the Library, selected; several items open in the Library with all of them in view. An item a friend shared with you can be sent too.

What the note says​

After a send, a note says how many of your phones it reached and what opens there. When it reached none it says why, and what to do: no phone is signed in to the app with your account, the phones have its notifications turned off, or you have sent a lot in the last minute and it says when to try again. If the note says sent and nothing shows on the phone, a Focus or Do not disturb there is holding the notification: allow the app in it.

The push copies nothing to the phone: the phone reads the items from your library when you tap, so it needs a connection then. Keeping items on the phone for riding without signal is a separate switch, Keep on my phone, in the item's panel.

More in the guide: the Library and Save, send to phone.