Gather

Join with the room code

Instead of scanning, you can type in the room code. That’s handy when the TV is across the room, the camera won’t cooperate or you’re playing on a Mac.

  1. Read the code

    The game table shows the code in large type under “ROOM CODE”. If an iPhone is hosting, it’s on that phone’s “Invite a friend” card.

  2. Find the code field

    Open Gather and go to the “Play” tab. The “Code” field sits at the top of the “Play on the TV” card.

  3. Type the code

    The code has six characters made up of capital letters and digits. Lowercase letters are capitalized for you, and spaces and hyphens are dropped.

  4. Join

    Tap the arrow to the right of the field. Gather asks the devices on your Wi‑Fi which one has this room and connects you to it.

  5. Pick a device if asked

    If two devices know the same code, the app asks “Which TV?”. Choose the screen you’re sitting in front of.

How to tell everything is working

Above the code field, the TVs and iPhones Gather has found on your Wi‑Fi appear as green tags. If nothing shows up, your phone is probably on a different network.

Codes skip characters that are easy to mix up: there’s no I, L or O, and no 0 or 1.

Entering the code in a browser

Without the app, type the address shown below the QR code on the TV into your browser. It already contains the room code and takes you straight to the join page. Leave off the part from “/join/” onwards and you get the “Join a game” page, where you enter the code yourself.

Tips

  • If the app says there’s no room with this code, double-check the code on the TV – or whether the room has been closed in the meantime.