Rocket.Chat Mobile

This section covers information on accessing Rocket.Chat workspaces through mobile apps and how to use them.

Install Rocket.Chat on mobile

You can download the Rocket.Chat mobile app on Google Play for Android devices and App Store for iOS devices.

Sign up for Rocket.Chat

To create a Rocket.Chat account, you must join an existing workspace. Follow these steps:

1. Launch the Rocket.Chat app on your mobile device.

2. Enter your workspace URL. If you don't have one, you can join our community workspace.

3. Click Create an account. Sign up with any available third-party authentication providers like Google or submit a name, username, email, and password.

4. A confirmation email is sent to your email address. To log in, click Login or access the URL of your provided workspace.

Login to Rocket.Chat

To log in to Rocket.Chat mobile app, follow these steps:

1. Launch the Rocket.Chat app on your mobile device.

2. Enter your workspace URL. Click Login.

3. If you created an account with a third-party authentication app like Google, choose the respective option or provide a username/email, and password combination to log in.

4. You will be prompted to input your email and check your mailbox to verify if you have not verified your email.

5. After verification, you are taken to your workspace's homepage upon successful login.

Explore your workspace

The homepage of your workspace has a navigation menu, toolbar, and main body, allowing you to perform different actions.

Navigation menu

The navigation menu is accessible by selecting the kebab menu in the top-left corner next to your workspace name. The menu displays your profile avatar and name. Additionally, it includes these five action items:

• Edit Status: Set a custom status.

• Chats: It displays the rooms you belong to, enabling you to select any and start a conversation.

• Profile: It takes you to the screen for managing your profile.

• Display: This takes you to the display settings screen to choose between expanded or condensed messages, the sort order, and the grouping order of your rooms.

• Settings: It takes you to the app settings screen, such as language, default browser, and theme.

Toolbar

The toolbar (action bar) has three action icons:

• Create New: It is used to create new rooms.

• Search: It searches your whole workspace for rooms and users.

• Directory: It is used to browse between all the channels, teams, and users in the workspace.

Main body

Your workspace's main body includes all the rooms you belong to. You can tap a room from the list to start a conversation or follow up on an existing conversation.

Profile

On the profile screen, you can perform the following actions:

• Edit your workspace avatar: You can enter an image URL, take a photo, or upload an image.

• Edit your name, username, email, nickname, and bio.

• You can also update your password, log out from other logged-in locations, and delete your account.

Preferences

From the top-right of the Profile screen, select the settings icon to access the Preferences screen. You can update the following:

• Select Notifications to update your notification preferences:

  • Desktop notifications: Select the type of notification for which you want to be notified. These notifications are delivered to the desktop. You can select Default, All messages, Mentions, or Nothing.

  • Push notifications: Select the type of notification for which you want to be notified. These notifications are delivered to the mobile. You can select Default, All messages, Mentions, or Nothing.

  • Troubleshooting: These notifications are delivered to you when the app is not open. Based on your push configuration, you can find the troubleshooting information.

  • In-app message notifications: You can enable or disable the Vibrate option.

  • Email: You can disable email alerts or choose to receive notifications for every mention or DM. You must verify your email address to get notifications. Contact your workspace administrator if you need to confirm your email verification.

• Also send to channel: Select the Also send to channel behavior option. This gives users the option to send thread messages to a channel. You can select Default (the default workspace setting), Always, or Never.

Display

On the Display screen, you can update the following settings:

• Display: Select the display type of the main body. The Expanded display type displays the latest messages in the rooms. The Condensed display type displays only the room name. You can also enable or disable the room avatars.

• Sort by: Sort the order in which the rooms are displayed. You can order by Activity or by Name.

• Group by: Group how the rooms are displayed according to the Unread on top, Favorites, and Types options.

Settings

The Rocket.Chat mobile app allows you to configure different app features, such as language, theme, and more, in the settings screen.

• Contact Us: Email Rocket.Chat support team for your worries or inquiries. It redirects you to your default email client.

• Language: Set your preferred language from a range of Rocket.Chat supported languages.

• Review this app: Review Rocket.Chat on either Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Depending device's operating system, you are taken to the respective store.

• Share this app: Share the Rocket.Chat app link from the store to others so they can visit the link to install the mobile app.

• Default browser: Select the browser where the links in Rocket.Chat should be opened by default. You also have an in-app browser option.

• Theme: Choose between using your device's default or a light or dark theme.

• Media auto-download: Select the auto-download options for images, videos, and audio. You can choose Wi-Fi and mobile data, Wi-Fi, or Never.

• Security and Privacy: Modify security and privacy settings. You can reset your end-to-end encryption key, set a screen lock for devices that support biometrics, log analytics events, and send crash reports to our backend. Crash reports help us track and solve bugs. We never track the content of your chats. The crash report and analytics events contain only the relevant information for us to identify and fix issues.

• License: Open and read Rocket.Chat mobile's MIT License.

• Version: Displays the version of Rocket.Chat mobile app that you are using.

• Workspace version: Displays the current Rocket.Chat workspace version.

• Clear local server cache: Delete cached information from your workspace.

• Logout: Logout from your workspace.