The app intro and turning on reminders

The first time you sign in with a new account, Limbo walks you through a short tour before showing the Home screen. A couple of the steps do real setup — reminders, your crew, your email — so it's worth knowing what each one does. Everything in the tour can be changed later from Settings.

Everything here is personal to your account — no organizer or owner powers are involved. The tour shows once per account. Use the Back and Next arrows at the bottom to move around; Next also skips any step you don't want to act on.

The steps

1. 1
   Stop planning trips in the group chat — the welcome screen. Tap START.
2. 2
   Propose anything. The group votes. — tap Get Reminders to allow notifications (details below), or Next to skip for now.
3. 3
   Votes are sealed until the deadline — explains the reveal, and offers Add Companion to invite your first crew member. You can manage your crew any time from Settings, so feel free to skip.
4. 4
   Set Date Format — pick how dates display throughout the app (changeable later in Settings).
5. 5
   Email Address — confirm the email on your account and verify it if prompted. This matters if you plan to forward booking emails.
6. 6
   Works in airplane mode — a reminder that everything syncs when you land. Tap Start Your First Trip to finish and land on Home.

The Get Reminders step

Tapping Get Reminders triggers your device's standard notification permission prompt. Allowing it lets Limbo ping you when a ballot opens, a voting deadline is closing in, plans change, or a tracked flight updates — the things that fall through the cracks in a group chat.

If you tap Next instead, nothing is asked of your device and you can turn reminders on later.

Turn reminders on later

Limbo only asks your device for push permission when the push master switch turns on — opening the settings screen alone never triggers the prompt.

1. 1
   Tap your avatar on Home to open Settings.
2. 2
   Open Notification Settings.
3. 3
   Turn on the Push notifications master switch and tap Allow on the system prompt.

If you declined the system prompt in the past, your device won't show it again — you have to allow notifications in your device settings instead:

For choosing exactly which events reach you on which channel — push, email, or in-app, per notification type — see Notifications.