Channel Help

This is the complete guide to Channel, and it lives inside the app. It works with no network, and nothing you read here is reported to anyone.

English is the reference text. Any translation is a convenience; where the two differ, the English governs.

Contents

• Getting started — profiles, your card, and your first contact
• Pairing — QR codes, safety numbers and confirmation codes, and what each proves
• Being found — verifying a number or an address, and what Verified means
• Reach — the four ways a message can travel, and what the lights mean
• The relay — what our server does, what it learns, and what it never sees
• Waking your phone — how new mail reaches a phone that is asleep, and how to stop that
• Messages — disappearing, view once, photos, read receipts, translation
• Privacy on this device — screenshots, the app lock, the app switcher, contacts
• Settings — this phone versus this profile
• When something does not work

English is the reference text; any translation is a convenience. Help is stored on this phone and never contacts anyone.