Heads down, signal gone, still working
Updated 18 May 2026
The phone is also where you choose to not be available, and where you keep working when the signal isn't.
"Heads-down for an hour and the phone won't shut up."
You're trying to write the quote. The phone keeps buzzing — every status change, every reaction, every "+1" emoji landing on a task you watch.
Start the task you're actually working on. Two things happen at once:
- Your iOS lock screen and Dynamic Island show your busy status (task name, time running). The team can see you're heads-down without you announcing it. Android shows it in the notification shade.
- Flip the Chat tab toggle to Muted while busy and the app shuts up until you stop the task. Quote written. Floodgates open back up.
Stop the task → the busy banner disappears, notifications resume. Subtle, mobile-only, and works whether the phone's on your desk or in your pocket.
"I want notifications, just not right now."
The notification-state toggle at the top of the Chat tab is app-wide:
- Free — get everything
- Muted while busy — mute only when a task is running
- Muted — don't ping me at all
App-level, not chat-level — the toggle covers task pings and chat pings together. (Per-project muting is on the list Coming.)
"I'm on a job site and the signal is gone."
Underground car park, rural site, the lift to your client's office, the Tube. The web app would shrug. The phone keeps working.
Recent tasks and projects are cached locally. You can read them, edit them, comment, attach. Your changes queue. When the signal comes back they sync — same-field conflicts pick the most recent edit; different-field edits merge clean. You don't lose work to a tunnel.
"I started a task and then forgot to stop it."
It happens. The Live Activity banner is there as a reminder, but if it slips, the task timer just keeps running until you tap stop — either on the lock-screen widget or inside the task. Stopping cleanly is more important than catching it exactly when work ended; the team-workload view counts tasks by date, not by stopwatch precision.
Admin and permissions — who can do what (web-side, mostly).