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.

When newer pages exist, a line at the top of Help says so and offers Get It. Nothing is downloaded until you press it. See Privacy on this device.

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

Contents

• Getting started. Setup, profiles, your card, and your first contact.
• Pairing. QR codes, sending somebody a code, and how to be sure it is really them.
• Being found. Verifying a number or an address, claiming a handle, and what Verified means.
• Reach. The four ways a message can travel, and what the lights mean.
• Our server. What it does, what it learns, and what it never sees.
• Waking your phone. Push, Fetch and On Demand, and what Apple and Google are told.
• Messages. Sending, marks, pictures, location, the clipboard, and AI.
• Privacy on this device. Screenshots, the app lock, the app switcher, contacts.
• Settings. This phone versus this profile, row by row.
• 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.