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Guest Link

NewsJuly 15, 20261 min read

A guest link that fits in your pocket

The mobile guest link now has its own proper navigation drawer instead of a squeezed-down copy of the kiosk sidebar — with keyboard-safe typing and safe-area-aware layout.

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Opening a HOWI guest link on your phone used to hand you a shrunk-down copy of the kiosk screen in the lobby — a sidebar built for a tablet, squeezed into a phone-sized column next to your chat.

What changed

The guest link on mobile now gets its own navigation: tap the menu icon and a full-height drawer opens with the same destinations — Today, Info, Map, Games, Guestbook, Services — sized for a thumb instead of a stylus. Close it with the X, tap outside it, or just hit your phone's back button; back never leaves the guest link, it just closes whatever's open. Typing to HOWI no longer gets your message hidden behind the on-screen keyboard, and layouts respect the notch/home-indicator safe areas on iPhone and Android.

Why it matters

Chat is still the first thing you see and the fastest way to get an answer — this change only touches how you get everywhere else. Nothing was removed or hidden: every capability available on kiosk is reachable from the same drawer on your phone.

Availability

Live now on every guest link (/u/..., /p/...). Kiosk screens are unchanged — they already had the room for a persistent sidebar.