How to use COPY
Get started with COPYSet upGet COPY from the App Store and add your name. It’s how your friends see you.Pick your first deviceChoose the one that feels like yours, then hold to boot it up. You keep it, and you can switch devices any time.Practice onceChannel 1 has a message from us. Tap to play it. Then Channel 2 shows up: Learn COPY. Hold the button, say something, let go, and you’ll hear yourself back. Nobody else hears it. COPY asks for the microphone the first time you hold.To run it again, go to Settings, then Support, then Replay Learn COPY.Add a friendInvite a friendTap an empty channel, send your friend the link, and you share that channel as soon as they join.Send an inviteTurn the dial to an empty channel. It says “+ Tap to add friends.”Tap it and choose A friend.Send the link however you like: Messages, WhatsApp, anywhere. Send the whole thing. The part after the # is your channel’s key, and COPY’s server never sees it.While you wait, the channel says “Waiting for friend...”. Hold it to cancel. When they join, it says “Connected.”What your friend seesIf they have COPY, the invite opens on one of their empty channels with “Tap to join.”Make a groupShare one invite link in a group chat. Everyone who joins lands on the same channel.Start a groupTurn the dial to an empty channel and tap it.Choose A group.Drop the link in your group chat.A channel with three or more people is a group. It holds up to 25.Add people to a channel you already haveLong-press the channel and choose Add friends to channel, then share the link. When a third person joins a one-to-one channel, it becomes a group.Getting started
4 articlesSending and listeningHold the button and talk. Let go and it’s sent. A message can run up to three minutes.SendingA quick tap cancels, so you won’t send a blip by accident.Let go and it sends right away. There’s no preview or redo.At three minutes, COPY stops and sends for you.ListeningA channel with new messages shows how many, like “2 new.” Tap it to play them, oldest first. With COPY Club, you can skip ahead or replay messages from the last ten minutes.What your channel is telling youWhen messages are deletedA message is deleted once everyone on the channel has played it, or after seven days if they haven’t.In groupsCOPY waits until everyone in the group has played it. People who join later don’t get older messages.The reminderIf a message is still unplayed a day before it expires, the listener gets a notification that it’s expiring in 24 hours.Skip & ReplayWith COPY Club, Skip & Replay keeps an encrypted copy on your phone for ten minutes after you listen, so you can play it again. It doesn’t change when the message is deleted everywhere else. Turn it off in the COPY Club screen, under Playback.Notifications and microphone accessCOPY asks for the microphone the first time you hold to talk, and for notifications when you first add or join a friend. Saying no to notifications never blocks anything.Check what’s allowedSettings, then Permissions, shows Microphone and Notifications as Allowed, Not allowed, or Not asked. Tap one to fix it. COPY asks, or takes you to your iPhone’s Settings.If the microphone is offHolding to talk shows “Microphone Required.” Tap Open Settings and turn on Microphone for COPY.If messages arrive quietlyA muted channel sends no notifications. Long-press it and choose Unmute.You won’t get a notification for the channel you have open.Talking
3 articlesChange your deviceYour device is how COPY looks, sounds, and feels. Change it any time. Your channels, friends, and messages stay right where they are.Moving to a new phone? See Move COPY to a new phone.HowTap the settings button in the top right of your COPY device.Tap the device at the top, or Colors.Swipe through Devices and pick one.Each device comes with all of its colors.Which devices you can useEarn a free deviceCOPY has three milestones. Each one unlocks a free device, and you pick which.The milestonesFirst Contact. Send your first message.Three’s Company. Join a group of three.Operator. Send 25 messages.Claim itWhen one is ready, Settings shows it under Unlocks. Choose a device you don’t own yet and tap Claim free skin.Devices you earn and sync with COPY come back with your recovery key if you change phones.Restore purchasesIf a device you bought is missing, tap Restore Purchases. It’s in the top card in Settings, and at the bottom of the Devices screen. COPY checks the App Store and brings back every device you paid for.What you’ll see“Restore Complete.” It found your purchases.“No Purchases Found.” COPY didn’t find paid device purchases to restore. If you bought them with another Apple Account, use that account.“Restore Failed.” COPY couldn’t restore your purchases. The alert tells you what went wrong.Free devices work differentlyYour starting device and the ones you earned come back with your recovery key if they synced with COPY. Older devices saved only on your previous phone may not come back. Restore Purchases restores paid devices.Devices
3 articlesCOPY ClubCOPY Club unlocks every COPY device, plus a few extras.What’s includedEvery device, current and future, while you’re a member.Reactions. A quick reply to your channel. No recording.Skip & Replay. Skip ahead, or listen again for ten minutes.Stickers for your device.Nicknames only you see.Activity. Your transmissions and active days.COPY Club
1 articleHow COPY keeps things privateMessages are end-to-end encrypted, and COPY’s server can’t listen to them. There are no accounts. Messages disappear automatically. In a group, they stay until everyone has listened, or seven days have passed. COPY Club adds ten minutes to replay after listening.Encrypted before it leaves your phoneThe key to each channel travels in the invite link, after the #, and COPY’s server never sees it.No accountsNo email, no phone number, no password. Your phone creates your identity, and your recovery key is how you get it back.What the server holdsEncrypted messages until everyone has listened or they expire, plus what it needs to deliver them: your display name, the channels you’re in, and a token for notifications. Analytics are first-party, with no message content and no advertising IDs. The privacy policy has the full list.Your recovery keyYour recovery key is 24 words that bring back your COPY identity, friends, and groups if you lose your phone.Find itSettings, then Profile, then Recovery Key. Tap Show, then Copy. Keep it somewhere private, like a password manager.What it brings backYour profile, friends, and groupsMessages that haven’t expired yetYour starting device and earned devices that have synced with COPYA COPY Club passMove COPY to a new phoneInstall COPY on the new phone and enter your recovery key. Your friends and channels come back.RestoreInstall COPY.On the welcome screen, tap Already have a walkie? Restore it.Paste or type your 24 words and tap Restore.In Settings, tap Restore Purchases to bring back devices you bought.What your friends seeYour recovery key restores the same COPY identity. Your friends don’t need to add you again.