In short
Any Brand you can sign in to can be pinned to your phone’s home screen as its own icon in the Brand’s color — on iPhone, wearing the Brand’s own artwork. Tapping the icon runs the same One-Tap sign-in as the Brand’s card in the App: face or fingerprint, then the site opens signed in. Long-press the Brand’s card in Connections to start.
The icon is a pointer, never a credential. It holds the name of the Brand and where to ask; it holds nothing that could sign in. Whoever picks up the phone still meets your face or fingerprint, and the key that proves you never leaves the handset. On Android the App places the icon itself; on iPhone only Safari can, so the App walks you through a short trip there.
What a pinned Brand is
A pinned Brand is a home-screen icon that opens the Linxy App straight into the One-Tap ceremony for one site. It is the shortest path there is to being signed in: one tap on the icon, one glance at your phone, and the site opens as you. On Android the icon is the Brand’s mark-field — its color, derived from its own Mark, with its initial; on iPhone it is the Brand’s card artwork where the Brand has supplied some. Either way a row of pinned Brands reads like a row of apps.
| Android | iPhone | |
|---|---|---|
| How it is placed | The App asks the launcher to pin it; the launcher shows its own confirmation | Safari’s Add to Home Screen, after a short trip there |
| Where the icon points | The Brand’s One-Tap address | A small page on lnxy.me for that Brand, which hands off to the App |
| What the icon carries | The Brand’s identity and color | The Brand’s artwork as the icon image |
| First tap | Ceremony | Asks once whether to open in Linxy; later taps go straight to the ceremony |
| What it can do without you | Nothing. It contains no key and no session | |
On Android
- Open Connections and find the Brand.
- Long-press the card.
- Android asks whether to add the icon to your home screen. Confirm.
The App never places an icon silently — the launcher’s own dialog always stands between the long-press and the icon, which is also why the App can only tell you the request was accepted, not that the icon has appeared. If nothing happened after confirming, the launcher may have put it on a different page or in a folder; a few launchers do not support pinning at all, and on those the long-press is simply not offered.
On iPhone
iOS gives no app the ability to put an icon on the Home Screen. Safari can, through its Add to Home Screen feature, and an icon added that way is indistinguishable from a native one. So the App gets you into Safari with the right page open and tells you where to tap.
Long-press the Brand card and the App shows a sheet titled Add to your Home Screen with two actions. Open in Safari closes the sheet and opens the Brand’s page there; from the Share button choose Add to Home Screen. Copy link is for phones whose default browser is not Safari: paste the link into Safari yourself and continue from the Share button. The Brand’s page is deliberately not one the App claims for itself, because if it were, Safari would hand it straight back to the App and you could never reach the Share button.
What a tap on the icon does
The icon opens the Linxy App directly into the Signal Ring for that Brand. Your ordinary app lock steps aside for this launch so you are not asked for your face twice; the ceremony’s own verification is the one that counts. If you cancel the ceremony, the app lock runs instead, so a cancelled sign-in never leaves the App open and unlocked in your hand.
On iPhone the very first tap on a new icon asks whether to open in Linxy. Confirm, and later taps do not ask. Everything after that — the sixty-second pass, the once-per-browser check on the site, the recent-sign-ins shelf — is exactly as described in One-Tap sign-in.
Removing one
Remove a pinned Brand the way you remove any icon on that phone. Nothing on your account changes: the icon was a pointer, and removing it does not touch your enrollment with the site, the Brand’s card in Connections, or your device. Equally, ending a Connection or revoking this device does not remove the icon — it simply stops working, and tells you sign-in is unavailable when tapped.
Symptoms, causes and fixes
| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Long-press does nothing | The card is a person, or a Brand you cannot sign in to; or this launcher cannot pin icons | Only Brands with a Sign in segment can be pinned |
| Confirmed on Android, no icon visible | The launcher placed it on another page or in a folder | Search the home screen; the App only knows the request was accepted |
| On iPhone the sheet opened Chrome, not Safari | Chrome is your default browser | Use Copy link, paste it into Safari, then Share → Add to Home Screen |
| No Add to Home Screen in the Share sheet | Not in Safari, or scrolled past it | It is a Safari feature; scroll the Share sheet down |
| The icon opens a plain page instead of the App | The App is not installed on this phone, or the first-tap prompt was declined | Install or open the App, then tap the icon again and confirm |
| The icon says sign-in is unavailable | This device was revoked, or the Connection was ended | Sign in to the App normally to bind the device; reconnect with the Brand if the Connection is gone |