Group Settings And Preferences

The Settings page contains a tab named Groups on which you can set preferences for notifications and alerts.  When important events happen—such as requests to join your group or updates to prayers you are following—Be Still sends you notifications and alerts.  Notifications are sent directly to your device and will appear immediately, even if you are not using Be Still.  …

Group Notifications And Alerts

Be Still sends you notifications and alerts to make you aware of important events.  Notifications and alerts differ in important ways.  Notifications appear on your device outside of Be Still, and they can appear even if Be Still is not running.  Notifications on iOS devices look like this:  Notifications on Android devices look like this:  Be Still sends notifications for …

Deleting A Group

An admin of a group may delete the group at any time.  Upon deletion, all prayers in the group are erased.  If any of the prayers were followed, those prayers vanish from the My Prayers list of any users who followed them.  All members of the group are expelled from the group, and the group disappears from the group search …

Viewing Who Is In Your Group

If you are the admin of a group, you may view a list of all the members of that group, and you may remove any member whose presence in the group is no longer needed or appropriate.  To view or remove members of a group:  1. Go to the Group Settings page using either of two ways:  (a) Tap the …

Editing A Group

After you create a group, you may need to change its name or its attributes.  You must be the admin of a group to edit it.  Editing a group changes only the group name, location, church, purpose, or join policy.  Prayers within the group and members of the group are not changed in any way.    To edit an existing group:  …

Creating A Group

Any Be Still user can create a new prayer group at any time.  That user then becomes the admin of the new group.  Before you create a new group, you should gather the following information, some of which is required and some optional:  Name — a short descriptive name for the group.  Required.  Location — The city and state affiliated …

Leaving A Group

Members of a group may leave any group that they had previously joined.    Admins may not leave their own groups.  They must delete the group and recreate it with a new admin.  If you leave a group, the prayers you posted while you were a member will remain in the group.  If you want them removed, you must explicitly delete …

Options For Group Prayers

You can open a prayer options page for prayers that you create on your own My Prayers list.  These prayers are not part of a prayer group, so you can do many things to them: share them, edit them, snooze them, delete them, and so forth.  Prayers that you view in a group prayer list also have an options page, …

Moderating Prayer Requests

Occasionally you may spot prayers in a group that are inappropriate for that group.  The prayer author may have posted the prayer to the wrong group, shared information that violates someone’s privacy, or included content that is unfit for shared prayers.    Any Be Still user can mark, or flag, any group prayer as inappropriate.  The admin of the group is …

Sharing Prayers With A Group

If you are not the member or admin of any groups, Be Still automatically adds all your new prayers into your My Prayers list.  You merely enter the text of the new prayer and tap Save:  However, this process changes slightly as soon as you become the admin or a member of a group.  From that point on, you must …

Following Prayers In A Group

If you are a member of a group, you can open the prayer list for that group and view all the prayers that other members have posted there.  Sometimes you may find that one or more prayers in the group are especially interesting or relevant to you.   Be Still lets you follow prayers in a group.  When you follow a …

Viewing Prayers In A Group

After you join a group, you may view all the prayers that have been posted to that group by any of its members.  To view the prayers within a prayer group:  1. Tap the Groups button at the bottom of the page:  2. Be Still displays the Groups page.  The groups of which you are either a member or the …

Approving New Group Members

If you are the admin of a group that requires approval for new members to join it, then you will automatically receive an join request.  If you have turned on group notifications, the join request will be pushed to your device, even if you are not using or running Be Still.  Notifications on iOS devices look like this:  Notifications on …

Joining A Prayer Group

It’s easy to find any Be Still prayer group if you know the approximate name of the group or any of its key attributes, such as location, church, or admin name.  In general, you discover the name of a prayer group from the admin of that group, who creates the group and then publicizes its name to everyone who may …

How To Use Prayer Groups

Prayer groups are online communities of Be Still users who share prayers.  Each prayer group, often called simply a group, has a name and a purpose.  Every member of a group can create new prayers in the group, and then all other members of that group see those prayers and can include them in their own prayer times.  Only prayers …

Setting Permission To Access Contacts

If you give Be Still permission to access the contacts on your device, then you can tag people in your prayers.  Many users will grant this permission when they install the Be Still app.  However, if you need to change this after you install the app, you can do so easily in Settings.  Be Still only reads the email addresses …

Changing Your Username

You created your username when you created your Be Still account.  You can change this later if you wish.  Your new username must still be a valid email address, because Be Still will send a verification email to you at that address.  To change your Be Still account username:  1. Tap the More button at the bottom of the page:  …

Changing Your Password

You created an initial password when you created your Be Still account.  You can change your password later whenever you wish.  To change your Be Still account password:  1. Tap the More button at the bottom of the page:  2. This opens the “More” menu page.  Tap Settings:  3. This opens the settings page.  Be sure that the General tab …

Setting Church Contact Information

If you share a prayer with your church, Be Still will open a new outgoing email with prefilled items.  The body of the email is prefilled with the text of your prayer, and the recipient (or To:) is prefilled with your church’s email address.  However, the recipient is prefilled only if you have already set your church’s contact information.    To …

Setting Autodelete

You can delete individual prayers at any time.  In addition, you may set an autodelete option that causes Be Still to automatically delete any archived prayer that reaches an age that you specify.  For example, you can set autodelete to delete all prayers that have been in archived status for 90 days, or 1 year, or some other value that …

Setting Default Snooze Duration

When you snooze a prayer, Be Still uses a default snooze duration that you can change.  This is useful if you often snooze prayers for the same duration (e.g., one day or one week).  To change the default snooze duration:  1. Tap the More button at the bottom of the page:  2. This opens the “More” menu page.  Tap Settings:  …

Setting App Appearance

The appearance mode of Be Still can be set to light or dark:  The choice of light or dark mode is only a viewing preference.  The screen contents and behavior are identical in both modes.  To change the app appearance mode:  1. Tap the More button at the bottom of the page:  2. This opens the “More” menu page.  Tap …

Adding Your Contacts To A Prayer

You may optionally “tag” people in the text of new prayers or the text of prayer updates.  To tag a person means to copy a person’s name from your own personal contact list into the prayer.  A tagged person then appears in your prayer as a clickable link:  You can click the link to send an instant email or text …

Remind Yourself To Pray For Someone Or Something

You can set a reminder on individual prayers.  Be Still will send your device a notification to remind you of the prayer.  The notification will appear even if Be Still is not running:  Prayer reminders are often used to plan a prayer for a specific time, such as just before surgery, travel, or some other point in time at which …

Scheduling Your Quiet Time

You can set one or more prayer time reminders.  Be Still will send you a notification to remind you to start prayer time.  The notification is displayed on your device even if Be Still is not running:  Note that Be Still has two different reminder features with similar names: prayer time reminders and prayer reminders.  Prayer time reminders are notifications …

Prayer Time

Be Still helps you during prayer time by displaying all your active prayers in a series of prayer cards that you can flip through as you pray, like this:  As you pray, you can view the cards sequentially or in any order you wish.  To begin prayer time:  1. Tap the Pray icon in the button bar at the bottom …

Sharing A Prayer With Your Church

If you have stored the contact information for your church in Setting Church Contact Information, you can share prayers with your church.    Sharing prayers with your church is similar to sharing prayers by email, but the church’s email address is automatically filled in for you in the outgoing email.  This email address can be any valid email address, but it …

Sharing A Prayer By Email Or Text

If your device has a mail client already installed, you can email any prayer to anyone, even to persons who don’t use Be Still.  To share a prayer by email:  1. Find the prayer you wish to email and open its prayer options page.  Tap Share:  2. This opens a new page with sharing options.  Tap Email:  3. Be Still …

Marking A Prayer As A Favorite

You may mark any prayer on your My Prayer list as a favorite.  Be Still displays favorite prayers at the top of your prayer list regardless of the prayer creation date, which is normally used to set the order of prayers.  Prayers marked as favorites appear with a heart icon on the prayer list:  If you mark a prayer as …

Marking A Prayer As Answered

You may mark an active, snoozed, or archived prayer as answered.  This moves the prayer into answered status.  If you mark a prayer as answered and then change your mind, you can unmark it as answered.  Prayers in answered status appear in the prayer list with a checkmark icon:  Be Still treats all answered prayers as a type of archived …

Archiving A Prayer

Archiving a prayer will remove it from your active prayer list and will exclude it from the prayers shown during prayer time.  However, archived prayers are not deleted.  Their contents can still be seen, and they may be restored at any time to active status.  Archiving is similar to snoozing, except that archived prayers do not wake up and return …

Snoozing A Prayer

Snoozing a prayer will temporarily remove it from your list of active prayers.  If you snooze a prayer, you must give Be Still a snooze duration, typically some number of days, weeks, or months.  At the end of the snooze duration, Be Still will automatically “wake up” your prayer, or restore your prayer to active status.  The prayer will then …

Deleting a Prayer

Deleting a prayer will remove it permanently from your prayer list.  You can delete a prayer in any status: active, snoozed, archived, or answered.    To delete a prayer:  1. Find the prayer you wish to update and open its prayer options page.    2. Tap  the Delete button:  Be Still will ask you if you are sure you want to delete …

Editing a Prayer

It’s easy to edit a prayer after you add it to your prayer list.  Be Still allows you to edit the text of the prayer, to edit the text of any updates, and to delete updates that are no longer wanted.   To edit the text of a prayer or the text of any of its updates:  1. Find the prayer you …

Prayers with Multiple Updates

You can add updates to any prayer in active or snoozed status.  An update is simply additional text or supplementary notes that you attach to the original prayer.  You can add as many updates as you wish to a prayer.   To add an update to an existing prayer:  1. Find the prayer you wish to update and open its prayer …

Adding a Prayer

When you enter Be Still for the first time, your prayer list will be empty.  My Prayers will be your only prayer list because you are not a member of any prayer groups.  It’s easy to create new prayers in your My Prayers list or in any prayer group that you have joined.  Be Still refers to this process as …

Things You Can Do With A Prayer

Each prayer has a special “prayer options” page that allows you to perform many useful operations on that prayer.    To open the prayer options page for a prayer:  You may open this page in two ways:  1. Select a prayer from any prayer list and swipe right on that prayer:  An Options button will appear on the left side.  Tap …

Viewing a Prayer

All prayers on any prayer list can be tapped:  Tapping a prayer will open a detail page for that prayer:    The detail page displays the text of the prayer when it was first created, plus any updates that were added after that.  The most recent updates appear at the top, and the initial text of the prayer appears at …

Searching Your Prayers

If you need to locate a prayer based on the text that the prayer contains, you may search your prayers.  You can search only one prayer list at a time, and the search is performed only on the prayers that are currently displayed on the page based on whatever filter you may have set.  To display all prayers in a …

Filtering Your Prayers

A filter lets you view all the prayers of the same status at one time.    When you enter Be Still, only your active prayers are displayed on your prayer list, and the heading says My Prayers:  You may filter this list by prayer status, which displays only prayers with the status that you specify.  To filter prayers on your My …

Organizing Your Prayers

All Be Still prayers have a status, which is always one of four values:  Active.  When you add a new prayer to a prayer list, it appears with a status of active.  Only active prayers in your My Prayers list are displayed in your prayer time.    Snoozed.  If you create a prayer in your My Prayers list, then you may …

Your Personal Prayer List

After you log in, Be Still displays your personal prayer list, which Be Still calls the My Prayers list.  Each prayer appears as a white row in a scrollable list.  The top portion of each prayer contains the prayer creation date and icons that denote the the prayer status.  The bottom portion contains the first few words of the prayer …

Understanding Prayer Lists

Understanding Prayer Lists  Be Still can organize both your own prayers and the prayers that others have chosen to share with you.  All the prayers that you see in Be Still appear in one or more prayer lists.  Each Be Still user has a special prayer list called My Prayers:  My Prayers is the prayer list that you first see …

Logging In and Out

Many users choose to log in and out by entering a username and password.  However, Be Still offers other options.  You can ask Be Still to store your username and password and then to prefill them on the login page for a one-tap login.    To store your username and password:  1. Enter your username and password on the login page.  …

Resetting Your Password

You cannot recover a lost or forgotten Be Still password.  However, It’s easy to reset your password to a new value of your choice, even if you don’t know the old password.    To reset a lost or forgotten password:  1. Launch the Be Still app.  2. Click Forgot My Password at the bottom of the login page:   3. Be Still …

Creating a New Account

Anyone can install the Be Still app for iOS or Android, but you must be 13 years of age or older to create an account to log in.  All new accounts are verified by email, so new account owners must provide a valid email address.  To install Be Still and create a new account:  1. Find and install the Be …