Installing Sportpoolz on your phone

Sportpoolz is not a separate app you download from a store. "Installing" means your phone saves a shortcut to the site with its own icon, and opens that shortcut full screen instead of inside a browser tab.

• Nothing to download or update from an app store — your phone builds it from the site itself, in a few seconds.
• Same account, same pools, same picks. Installing changes how you get in, not what you get.
• The browser still works exactly as before. You can install it and keep opening sportpoolz.com in Safari or Chrome too — nothing about your account depends on which one you use.

This only works in Safari itself. Chrome, Firefox and Edge on iPhone all run on Apple's required engine underneath, but only Safari can add a site to the home screen as a full-screen app — a shortcut made from any of the others, or from the browser built into an app like Instagram or Facebook, just reopens inside that app instead of opening full screen.

1. 1 Open sportpoolz.com in Safari.
2. 2 Tap the Share icon in Safari's toolbar (a square with an arrow pointing up).
3. 3 Scroll down the sheet that opens and tap Add to Home Screen.
4. 4 Tap Add in the top-right corner. Sportpoolz appears on your home screen with its own icon, ready to open full screen.

Chrome can install a site with one tap once it decides you're a returning visitor — usually not on the very first visit, so don't worry if the prompt doesn't show up immediately.

1. 1 Open sportpoolz.com in Chrome.
2. 2 When Sportpoolz's own Install app button appears, tap it and confirm Install in the prompt Chrome shows.
3. 3 No prompt yet? Tap Chrome's ⋮ menu in the top-right and choose Add to Home screen or Install app instead.
4. 4 Sportpoolz appears on your home screen with its own icon, ready to open full screen.

The pages themselves are identical to the browser version. What changes is the chrome around them: no address bar, no browser tabs, and navigation moves to a bar along the bottom instead of the sidebar drawer.

• Pools, Picks, Teams and Friends (or Stats, if friends are off) sit one tap away along the bottom, plus a More sheet for everything else the sidebar carries.
• Picks always opens straight to whichever pool needs your attention next, whether that's a pick that's due or a tiebreaker still open.
• Scores, standings and picks are exactly as live as they are in a browser tab — nothing is stored for offline use, because picks and standings only mean anything with a live connection.

The icon is a shortcut, not a copy of your data, so taking it off your home screen deletes nothing. Your account, your pools and every pick you've made are stored on the server exactly as they were before you installed.

1. 1 Press and hold the Sportpoolz icon on your home screen.
2. 2 Choose Remove App or Delete App (iPhone) or Remove or Uninstall (Android).
3. 3 Sportpoolz stays exactly where it was, at sportpoolz.com — open it in a browser and sign in any time, or install it again the same way.