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Send an urgent notice to your screens

Put an urgent message across every screen straight away: a janazah, a fire alarm, a car blocking the drive, or a change to jamaat. It comes off by itself when the time is up.

  • 3 min read
  • In the portal: Screens → Urgent message
  • Masjid and Network licences
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Put a message up

  1. 1

    Open Screens then Urgent message

    On a phone, tap Urgent at the bottom. On the Dashboard, press Send to screens now.

  2. 2

    Pick what it's about

    Safety, Janazah, Move a car, Building, Time change or Something else. This sets the colour and a sensible length.

  3. 3

    Check the words

    Start from ready-made words, a message you saved, or a blank one. Where the words need a name, a prayer or a time, fill in the boxes and the words update. For a car, type the number plate and pick what to say. The picture beside the form shows how your screens will look.

  4. 4

    Choose how long

    From 5 minutes to 2 hours, Until the next jamaat, or Pick a time for an exact end.

  5. 5

    Choose whether phones get it too

    Also send to phones sends a notification to everyone who follows your masjid in the Community app. It's on for everything except cars.

  6. 6

    Press Put on all screens, check what it will do, then press Put it on screens

Every connected screen shows it straight away, full screen, with a countdown in the corner (not for a janazah). It comes off by itself when the time is up.

Change it, keep it up longer, or take it off

While a message is up, the top of the Urgent message page shows it with three buttons:

  • Take it off now: every screen goes back to its playlist straight away. The Dashboard has the same button.
  • 15 min longer: keeps it up for another 15 minutes.
  • Change the words: fix a mistake. Screens update straight away and it comes off at the same time.

Good to know

  • It goes to every screen. You can't choose just one.
  • Only one message can be up at a time. Putting up a new one replaces the one that's up.
  • It goes out straight away. You can't set it to start later.
  • A screen that's offline when you send it won't show it when it comes back. If a screen missed it, take the notice down and send it again.
  • Only people with the Admin role can put messages up.

To keep a message you send often, press Save for next time. It appears under Saved for next time and as a choice when you write a new one. Sent before lists what you've sent, with Send again.

For a notice that should take its turn with your other slides for days or weeks, use an announcement slide instead. See Add an announcement.

Checked against the portal on 14 October 2026. Something look different? Tell us on WhatsApp.

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