How to put a lunchbox note on your Home Screen

The Lunchbox Notes widget puts a friend’s latest note right on your Home Screen, so you see it every time you pick up your phone. When they send a new one, it changes by itself.

New to Lunchbox Notes? Start with what a lunchbox note is.

Add it

Hold an empty spot on your Home Screen until the icons wiggle.
Tap the brush at the top, then Add Widget.
Find Lunchbox Notes, pick a size, and tap Add Widget.

Look who took your side of the bed. — A friend's note, there all day

Big or small

The small widget is just the note. The big one also has buttons to write back and to chat.

A Home Screen with two note widgets: a big one with a dog asleep on a bed, and a small one with a hand wearing a ring — A big widget and a small one

Choose whose note

A new widget shows the newest note from anyone. To pick a friend, hold the widget, tap Edit Widget, and choose who. You can add one for each person you love.

The widget's settings with a list of friends to choose from — Choose whose note it shows

For a group, there is a Group notes widget too: how groups work.

On the Lock Screen

A small copy of the note can sit on your Lock Screen as well, under the clock. It shows the whole note, words and all, before you unlock your phone, so anyone who sees your phone can read it. Choose whose note goes there.

A Lock Screen with a small grey copy of a note under the clock, its words easy to read — On the Lock Screen, the whole note

On Android

Hold an empty spot on your home screen, tap Widgets, and find Lunchbox Notes. The same widgets are there.

An Android home screen with a note of a dog asleep on a bed — On Android

Try it now: Lunchbox Notes is in beta.

Get it on iPhone Get it on Android

iPhone opens TestFlight, Apple’s app for trying apps before they’re out. Android opens Google Play.

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