Get back to your seat after a dropout
When your connection drops, Gather holds your seat for a while. Each device remembers a reconnect key for every room code and uses it to return you to the same seat – with your cards, your color and your score.
Wait a moment
For brief dropouts, the app shows “Reconnecting …” and reconnects by itself, including when you switch back to Gather.
App restarted: “Back to the room”
If you closed Gather, the “Play” tab shows a “Back to the room” card with the room code. Tap it.
In a browser: reload the page
Reload the page or scan the QR code again – in the same browser. Thanks to the saved key, you’re back in your old seat without entering anything.
Tap Ready again
If you were still in the lobby, tap “Ready” again – Gather resets it after a dropout. In a running game, you just carry on playing.
What the game table shows meanwhile
In the lobby on the TV, your name is marked “· disconnected”. Your seat is held for about two minutes in the lobby and about three minutes during a game.
If you don’t make it back in time, you’re removed from the lobby. In a running game you drop out and the others play on; in Chess it counts as a lost game.
When the key no longer helps
The key only works for this room on this host, and only on the device or browser you joined with. It expires if you leave the room yourself, the host removes you or the room is closed. Then you join again with the code – which is only possible in the lobby.
Tips
- When an iPhone is the host, the whole game depends on it: once it closes the room, there’s no seat left to return to.