Install Our Caring Circle on iPhone
Adding Caring Circle to your home screen turns it into a real app: push notifications when something needs you, full-screen launch, and an icon next to Mail and Messages. Here's exactly how — five short steps in Safari.
Open Caring Circle in Safari
Tap the Safari icon on your iPhone, then go to app.ourcaringcircle.com. Sign in if you haven't already.
Tap the Share button
Look at the bottom of the screen — there's a row of icons. Tap the Share button (a square with an up arrow coming out of it). It's the middle icon on the toolbar.
Tap Add to Home Screen
The Share sheet slides up from the bottom. Scroll down past the first row of icons (Messages, Mail, etc.) until you see a list. Tap Add to Home Screen.
Confirm and tap Add
iOS will show a preview of the icon and let you rename it. You can leave the name as "Caring Circle" or shorten it — whatever fits next to your other apps. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
Open from your home screen
You'll be back on your home screen with a fresh Caring Circle icon waiting. Tap it. The app launches full-screen — no Safari address bar, no tabs, just Caring Circle.
Important: open the app from this icon at least once before you try to enable push notifications. iOS only offers push to web apps that have been launched from the home screen.
After install — turning on push notifications
Once Caring Circle is on your home screen, push notifications become available. They're the difference between catching up on what happened later and being told the moment Mom's appointment is in 30 minutes.
The first time you open the app from the home-screen icon, the dashboard shows a banner offering to turn on push. Tap it, accept the iOS permission prompt, and you're done. Push works from then on — even when Caring Circle isn't open.
You'll get three categories of pushes, each with its own toggle in Settings:
- Activity — someone joined the circle, claimed a task, or finished one.
- Reminders — appointments coming up; tasks due soon.
- Urgency — overdue tasks or anything tagged urgent.
Quiet hours are respected automatically — no pushes between 10 PM and 7 AM in your local time.
Troubleshooting
I don't see "Add to Home Screen" in the Share sheet. The most common cause is private browsing. iOS hides the option in Private mode — close the private tab, open a normal Safari window, and try again. Another cause is that you're not on the live site — make sure the URL bar shows app.ourcaringcircle.com, not a search result or a different page.
The install worked but push notifications won't turn on. Three things to check, in order:
- You opened the app from the home-screen icon at least once (push won't work if you keep launching from Safari).
- Your iPhone is on iOS 16.4 or later.
- You allowed notifications when iOS asked. To re-check: Settings → Notifications → Caring Circle → Allow Notifications.
The icon shows a Caring Circle logo I don't recognize. Old installs sometimes cache an earlier version of the icon. Delete the home-screen icon (long-press → Remove App → Delete from Home Screen), then reinstall.
The app feels stuck or out of date after install. Pull-to-refresh inside the app, or close it fully (swipe up from the home bar and swipe the Caring Circle preview away) and reopen.
Still stuck? Email support@ourcaringcircle.com — include your iOS version and we'll usually solve it in a single reply.
On a different device?
Each platform's install flow is a little different. Here are the other guides:
Need help we haven't covered? Email support@ourcaringcircle.com — we typically reply within one business day.