# Share, notifications and offline

Share links and text from other apps to a bot, get notified when a bot finishes, and what happens when your phone loses its connection.

Canonical page: https://themachine.myapps.ai/docs/desktop/mobile/share-notifications-offline

## Share to Machine (Android)

Send a link, some text or a picture from any app to a bot.

### Tap Share in any app

In your browser, email, notes or photos, tap **Share**.
### Choose Machine

Pick **Machine** from the share sheet.
### Pick a bot

Machine opens **Share to a project** with what you're sharing at the top. Tap
the bot that should get it.

![Sharing a link to a bot](/images/docs/desktop/phone-share.webp)
### Add your request and send

What you shared lands in the bot's message box as a draft. Nothing is sent
yet. Add what you want, such as *"Summarize this and tell me if it's worth
reading"*, and tap **send**.

Shared pictures arrive as references in the message box, not as attachments.
To give a bot a picture to work on, attach it with the **paperclip** in the
chat instead.

iPhone and iPad don't have Share to Machine yet.

## Notifications

On Android, Machine can tell you when a bot finishes, even with the app
closed.

- The notification is titled with the **bot's name** and says *"Finished —
  tap to see the reply."* or *"Hit an error and stopped. Tap to see what
  happened."*
- **Tap it** to open that thread.

### Turn notifications on

The app asks the first time it needs to. To check or change it later, open
**Settings → General → Notifications**:

| It says | Means |
|---|---|
| *"On — this phone hears when a bot finishes a turn."* | You're set. |
| *"Off…"* with **Turn on** | Tap **Turn on**, then **Allow**. |
| *"Blocked for Machine in your phone's settings."* | Open Android **Settings → Apps → Machine → Notifications** and allow them. |
| *"This deployment has no notification service configured."* | Notifications aren't available for your Machine account yet. |

In Android's notification settings, Machine's notifications are called
**Turn results** (*"When a bot finishes a turn"*), so you can change their
sound or turn them off there.

To pause pop-ups without turning them off, use **Quiet hours** in
**Settings → General**.

Notifications aren't available on iPhone and iPad yet.

## Offline

If your phone loses its connection, a strip at the top says *"No connection
— messages will send when you are back"*.

![The offline strip](/images/docs/desktop/phone-offline.webp)

- You can keep reading threads you've already opened.
- Messages you send wait, and go when you're back online.
- Your bots keep working in the cloud the whole time. Their replies appear
  when you reconnect.

Pull down on a list to refresh once you're back.