Mobile App Troubleshooting

This article will outline some of the most common issues creators and students may encounter on the Thinkific Mobile App, along with the steps to resolve these issues.

Common Mobile App Issues and Solutions

The dropdowns below contain some common issues you and your audience may encounter while using the Thinkific Mobile App. Click each dropdown to view more information.

Login Issues

My students are not able to find my school when searching for it in the app

First, you need to ensure that the Thinkific App is activated on your account. To do that, follow these instructions: Increase Engagement With the New Thinkific Mobile App.

If a mobile app feature is activated on your account, but your students are unable to find your school, we recommend that you confirm that your students are searching using your school name and NOT your school URL. Using school URL will not work correctly.

To help you spread the word and share the instructions, we put together the templates which can be found here: How to Share Your Mobile App.

The login screen for my school still shows the old school name / logo / color / subdomain

Make sure your school name and subdomain are updated correctly by following these instructions: Change Your Site URL and Site Name. To ensure your color and logo are updated, follow these instructions: Style and Logo Settings for Your Mobile App.

If changes are not visible, please close the app and reopen it again. If it does not work, delete and reinstall the app.

My student entered their login details, hit Continue, and it said that their account is verified - but when they hit Continue again, they are brought back to the login screen

If your student tries to log in and enters their credentials correctly, but they are brought back to the login screen, they need to:

Clear the cache and cookies of their device's browser
Restart their browser
Try logging in again

My student is logging out of one school and is trying to log in to a different school, but they are being logged in to the first school again

The mobile app uses a mobile browser to log a student into their Thinkific school. If a student tries to change schools, they will need to ensure they are logged out of the first school in their browser. To do that, your student will need to:

Open the Thinkific site of their first school in their mobile browser
Log out
Open the app and log in to the second school, using these instructions: How to Install and Log In to the Thinkific Mobile App (Student Resource).

My student has logged in to the app, but they do not see any courses or communities that they are enrolled in

Your students will need to make sure they are using the right email when logging in or using the same login option that they used to create an account.

Specifically, if a student created an account using one option (e.g. an email), but is signing in using Apple SSO with the Hide My Email feature enabled, they will create a new account instead of accessing their original one. In cases where this happens, you can always delete the duplicate student account.

Community issues

My student does not receive push notifications

If your students do not receive push notifications, they need to ensure that the Thinkific Mobile app has permission to send notifications. They can enable these permissions within the app, see the instructions here: Communities in the Mobile App (Student Resource).

Your students can also change their community notification settings from their mobile device settings:

Additional Troubleshooting Steps

If you or your students are experiencing issues with the app that are not covered previously, try the troubleshooting steps below.

Make sure your device is connected to the internet - the mobile app will not work offline
Try closing the mobile app completely and relaunching it on your device
Make sure that your mobile app is updated to the latest version: How Can I Update the Thinkific Mobile App? (Student Resource)
Make sure that your device meets the operating system requirements
Restart your device
Try a different device (mobile phone, tablet, PC/Mac laptop/desktop, etc.) to ensure that this is not a content-specific issue

What's Next?

If you are still experiencing issues after trying all of the steps above, please contact us with the following details for us to investigate further:

A detailed description of the issue
An email address of the user experiencing the issue
The version number of the Thinkific Mobile App you are using. Instructions on how to find that can be found here: Getting Started with the Mobile App (Student Resource)
The make and model of the device you are using (ie: Samsung Galaxy S22 phone, iPhone 13 etc)
The operating system (OS) and the OS version of your device (ie: Android 13, iOS 16 etc)
To see which operating system version you are running and how to update to the latest version, please visit the Android and/or Apple support sites for more information.
If possible, a screenshot or a recording of the issue
If a course issue, what is the name of the course? Does it happen in all courses or just one?
If a lesson issue, what is the name of the lesson? Does it happen in all lessons or just one?
If a community issue, what is the name of the community? Does it happen in all communities or just one?