The iOS app
The app does everything the web builder does, plus the things only a phone can: scanning a Marker by holding the phone near it, push notifications when something happens, and Face ID on the way in.
The NearField Builder app
NearField Builder is the free iPhone app for running NearField from your phone. What it does that the web builder cannot, the five tabs, and what still happens in a browser.
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Signing in, and Face ID
The three ways to sign in on iPhone, and how the biometric lock behaves: when it asks, when it deliberately does not, and how to get out if it ever misbehaves.
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Scanning a Marker with your phone
Hold your iPhone to a Marker and the app opens its menu: re-point it, edit what it shows, or see how it is doing. What each of the five outcomes means.
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Push notifications on your phone
How to switch push on for a device, what NearField will and will not interrupt you for, and the three independent reasons a phone can be silent.
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Keeping the app up to date
Some NearField improvements arrive the next time you open the app; some need an App Store update. Which is which, and how to check what you are running.
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What the app does not do
An honest list of what is missing from the iPhone app - QR scanning, universal links, shared reports, annual billing - and where each one lives instead.
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