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title: Quick start
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# SimpleX Chat User Guide
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The first messaging platform that has no user identifiers of any kind — 100% private by design.
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## Contents
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- [Quick start](#quick-start) - scroll down this page
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- [Sending messages](./send-messages.md)
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- [Secret groups](./secret-groups.md)
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- [Chat profiles](./chat-profiles.md)
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- [Managing data](./managing-data.md)
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- [Audio & video calls](./audio-video-calls.md)
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- [Privacy & security](./privacy-security.md)
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- [App settings](./app-settings.md)
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## Quick start
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### Create your first chat profile
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After downloading SimpleX Chat via the links at https://simplex.chat:
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- Open the app.
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- Create a new profile by inputting your display name and full name (optional).
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- Tap on "Create".
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This profile is local to the device, it is not stored anywhere else
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### Choose notifications mode
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After you have created the chat profile the app will ask you to choose notifications mode.
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<img src="../../blog/images/20220711-notifications.png" width="330">
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Please read their description, as on iOS it is trade-off between convenience and privacy, with instant notifications sharing more meta-data with the servers, and on Android it is a trade-off between notification delays and battery life.
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You can read more about [the differences between notifications work on Android and iOS](../../blog/20220404-simplex-chat-instant-notifications.md).
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### Connect to developers
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When you just start using the app, you can tap "chat with the developers" to ask any questions or just to test the app - feel free to send any test messages.
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This button will disappear once you make the first connection. To connect to the developers later:
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- [Open the app settings](./app-settings.md#opening-the-app-settings).
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- Tap on "Send questions and ideas".
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### Join some user groups
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There are links to join several [user groups](../../README.md#join-user-groups) on our GitHub page - join them to ask any questions and discuss ideas.
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You can also find some other user-managed groups via online search.
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To join a group via a link:
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- Get a link to a SimpleX user group, which you can get from your existing SimpleX conversations or by finding it online.
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- Tap on a button in the lower right-hand of the screen.
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- Tap on "Connect via link / QR code" button.
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### Connect to friends
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- Tell your friends to download SimpleX Chat app via one of the links here: https://simplex.chat
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- Create a one-time link for each of you friends by tapping new chat button (Android: a floating pencil button in the bottom right corner, iOS: a pencil button in the top right corner)
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- Tap _Create one-time invitation link_.
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- Share each link with a different friend, or alternatively let them scan a QR code.
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- You can optionally assign a different alias to each link, to know when they connect who is who, if they use incognito mode, for example.
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- To use your link or QR code, tell your friends to tap new chat button and then tap on "Connect via link / QR code".
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- They can either scan QR code or paste the link. If they opened the link in the browser, they need to tap "Open in mobile app" button on the page.
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Watch the video on [the website](https://simplex.chat) that shows how it works.
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You can also create a [long-term contact address](./app-settings.md#your-simplex-contact-address).
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### Explore the app
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Most app settings are shared for all profiles, but some settings are specific to chat profile.
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Read more in [App settings](./app-settings.md) page.
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Many conversation actions are available via long-press or swipe – try them!
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