Are you experiencing slowness, crashing, freezing, blank screens, or some general issue within Shift? Our troubleshooting basics can help! Use this article for some basic, but effective troubleshooting tips, and where to find additional resources that can help get things back on track! 🤓
Top basic troubleshooting tips
- Hard refresh. Just like it sounds, this refreshes the entire app. Press Cmd Shift R or Ctrl Shift R on your keyboard to hard refresh.
- For emails: Click into your email and double-click the Email icon towards the upper right corner to fully refresh your email.
- For web apps (Facebook, WhatsApp, Teams, etc.): Add a second instance of the app to your setup (don't delete the first instance giving you issues). Log into the second instance, then delete the first.
- Data reset: resetting your app data often remedies a wide range of issues! Check out our step-by-step instructions, by operating system below:
Additional troubleshooting guides
If the above tips aren't working for you, don't worry! We have guides below to help point you in the right direction: 📰
Description of Issue | Article |
Your email is unresponsive, not working as expected, or you're having issues logging in. | Email Troubleshooting |
One of your installed apps (e.g. Slack, Discord, Facebook, etc.) is showing a blank page, not working as expected, or you're having issues logging in. | App troubleshooting |
You're running into an issue with one of your Chrome extensions. | Extension troubleshooting |
You're being prompted to upgrade, but you already have a paid account. | Upgrade prompt troubleshooting |
You're having issues with notifications or unread badges. | Notification troubleshooting |
You're having an issue with your camera, microphone, screen sharing, or other permissions. | Permissions troubleshooting |
Issues with file or attachment downloads | Downloads troubleshooting |
What's next?
Find more answers to frequently asked questions here.
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