Reorder your tabs and choose where Protocol opens

Put the tab you use most first, pick the screen Protocol opens on, or strip the bar down to just one thing, like Train or Meals.

About 1 minute iPhone

How it works

Your tab bar holds up to four tabs plus More. Everything else lives in More, one tap away, so taking a tab out of the bar never removes anything. You pick the order, and you pick which tab Protocol opens on.

Step by step

Change your tab bar

  1. 1

    Open Edit your tab bar

    Tap More, the last tab in your bar. In the sheet that opens, tap the round sliders button in the top-left corner.

    You can also scroll to the bottom of the sheet and tap Edit your tab bar.

  2. 2

    Drag to reorder

    The list shows your bar in order, then More, then the tabs that live in More. Touch and hold the handle on the right of a tab and drag it up or down.

    Changes save as you go. There's no Done button to remember.

  3. 3

    Swap tabs in and out

    Tap the eye on a tab to take it out of your bar. It moves below More. Tap the eye on a tab in More to put it back in.

    Dragging works too: drag a tab below More to take it out, or above More to add it.

    Bar full?

    Four tabs is the most, so take one out before you add another. The count at the top, like In your bar · 5 of 5, includes More.
  4. 4

    Star where Protocol opens

    Tap the star on any tab in your bar. That tab says Opens here, and Protocol starts on it every time you open the app.

    Tap the star again to go back to opening on your first tab.

Ideas

Popular setups

Put the thing you open Protocol for first, and star it. Here's how a few members set theirs up.

Meals first

For logging food through the day. Opens straight to today's meals.

Train first

For lifting days. Opens on your next workout, ready to start.

Coach first

For checking in. Opens on your coach, ready for a question.

Train is in an invite-only beta

The Train tab shows up in the list once you're in the beta. Until then, the other setups work the same way.

Want a super focused mode?

Keep just one tab

If you only use Protocol for one thing, take everything else out of the bar. You're left with one tab and More, and nothing else is gone: it all stays one tap away in More.

  1. 1

    Tap the eye on everything else

    In Edit your tab bar, tap the eye on each tab except the one you want to keep. Each one drops below More.

    Then star the tab you kept, so Protocol opens on it. The bar always keeps at least one tab before More.

Train only

A gym notebook: your program, your lifts, nothing else in the way.

Nutrition only

Just food: log meals, see calories and macros.

Coach only

Just a conversation: ask, plan and check in.

Changed your mind?

Tap Reset layout in the top-right corner of Edit your tab bar to go back to the standard tabs.

Good to know

Tips

It follows you to the web

On a phone browser, stayonprotocol.com uses the same tab bar. You can also change it on the web in Settings, under General.

Reorder the cards on Today too

Scroll to the end of Today and tap Edit Today, or touch and hold any card. Drag cards into the order you like, or hide the ones you don't need.

Don't see a tab you expected?

Train needs the Train beta and Biomarkers needs lab access. Update Protocol from the App Store if the list looks different from this page.

Want logging without opening the app?

Widgets and the Action button get you there in one tap. Add widgets or set up one-press logging.

Still stuck?

Send us a message, screenshots welcome. We reply to every one, usually within a business day.

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