Put it on your phone
READI Collect is a web site, so there is nothing to download from an app store. You can still add it to your home screen, where it opens full-screen and one tap away. This takes about a minute and is worth doing before you need it rather than at the roadside.
Steps 1 and 2
Add it to your home screen
Sign in on your phone and READI Collect offers to install itself. There is nothing to buy and nothing to download.
Sign in on your phone → Install → Share → Add to Home Screen
- Is this an app from the App Store?
- No. It is the same web site, saved to your home screen so it opens like an app. There is nothing to download, nothing to update, and no store account involved.
- I closed the banner. How do I get it back?
- It comes back after a while, but you do not have to wait. On an iPhone use Safari's Share button and choose Add to Home Screen. On Android open your browser menu and choose Install app.
Signed in on a phone, a bar appears along the bottom offering to install. The i beside it explains what installing does; Install starts it; the cross puts the bar away for a month. It never appears once the app is already on your home screen.
On an iPhone, use Safari's Share button, choose Add to Home Screen, then tap Add. On Android the browser offers a real install button and does it for you. Either way you end up with a READI Collect icon that opens full-screen, without the browser bars.
Step 3
What it changes, and what it does not
Worth reading before you decide, because the honest answer is that it changes less than people expect.
Settings → Notifications
- Does it get its own login or its own data?
- No. It is the same READI Collect and the same account. Signing in on the installed copy signs you in to the same collections you would see in the browser.
- Does installing give it access to my phone?
- Not on its own. Anything like location is still asked for separately and you can still say no. Location matters for collectors, because it is what puts nearby work in front of you while you are active.
- How do I remove it?
- The same way you remove any app from your home screen. Your account and your collections are not affected, and the site still works in your browser afterwards.
Push notifications are not switched on for READI Collect yet, and this page says so. When they are, Safari only allows them for web apps that have been added to the home screen, so having it installed is what will let them reach an iPhone at all. Until then, everything still lands in your notification inbox.
- Add READI Collect to your home screen from the banner, or from your browser menu.
- Say what installing changes and what it leaves alone.
- Explain why an iPhone will need it installed once notifications arrive.
It is on your home screen. If you are a collector, Topic 9 is the job itself; if you are on a company roster, Topic 7 covers requesting a collection for yourself.