The phone version and phone calls

The phone version is a set of pages in the web app, at /app/phone. It needs no installation: open it in the phone’s browser, and add it to the home screen to open it like an app.

Connect to a meeting on a computer

1. Start the meeting on the computer using your online account. At the top of that meeting, select Connect a phone → Show meeting code. The dialog names the meeting. Settings → Your devices also links to the live meeting by name.
2. Scan the QR code with the phone camera. To enter the code by hand, open /app/phone/join on the phone, enter the code and tap Connect to meeting. The code works once within five minutes. Anyone who uses it can see and control only this meeting on this computer.
3. Open Connect a phone in the same meeting to revoke access. An unused code has a Revoke meeting code button. After a phone uses a code, choose Revoke codes and disconnect paired phones. This revokes guest access granted by the meeting code. Access also ends when you end or switch meetings, disconnect the computer, or reach the 12-hour limit.

For your own meetings and notifications, open My meetings and reminders on the phone and sign in to your account. If you were already signed in, you can return there from the meeting menu.

To label a computer, add a note under Settings → Your devices. The computer list on your phone uses that note. If two labels match, the list also shows the system name or a short ID.

Show the computer’s meeting on the phone

Set the phone above the screen. It shows the overlay of the live meeting on your computer with every button the overlay has, and each button runs on the computer.

• The keys that move the overlay’s answer (previous, next and scrolling) move the phone’s too.
• Hide the overlay while a phone shows the meeting (on by default) keeps the computer’s overlay hidden; it comes back by itself if the phone’s connection breaks.
• The phone keeps its own language and display settings, such as text size and colors.
• Turned sideways, the answer is on the left and the buttons in a column on the right.

Screenshot from the phone

Tap Screenshot on the phone to have the connected computer capture its screen and answer the question shown there.

• The desktop app takes the screen under the pointer.
• In a browser on the computer, press Screenshot once on the meeting page there and choose the screen. While the phone shows the meeting, that screen stays shared, and the phone’s Screenshot takes it again without asking.
• The phone shows a small picture of the screen the computer took, next to the answer. Tap it to see it full size and check it was the right screen.
• A question longer than the screen goes in parts, as on the computer: the phone’s camera button beside the ask box has the computer take each part, and Screenshot sends them joined into one page, which the small picture shows.

On the home screen, with notifications

After signing in to your own account, open the phone menu and find App and notifications.

• Add to home screen puts Prepped on the home screen, where it opens like an app; without a connection it still opens and says so. On an iPhone or iPad, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
• Before a meeting sends a notification before each planned meeting, at the reminder time set in Settings, then General.
• When a preparation is ready sends one when a meeting’s likely questions and answers are ready, prepared on any of your devices.
• Send a test notification checks they arrive.

Nothing is sent while one of your meetings is live. An iPhone or iPad shows notifications only for apps on the home screen, so add Prepped there first and turn them on from there.

A meeting on the phone itself

Without a computer, the phone runs the meeting. Its Listen switch turns on the phone’s microphone, and what it hears goes in as the other side, recognized and answered as on a computer. Press and hold Hold while you answer while you speak, so the phone answers the question it just heard and keeps your words as yours. Screenshot takes a photo with the camera. Online recognition is charged for the time the phone listens.

Phone interviews and calls

A phone in a call cannot also listen to that call, because Android gives apps silence during a call and an iPhone pauses the browser’s microphone when a call comes in. So choose by where the call is, in the meeting’s Where Prepped hears the other side.