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Reaching in — share, pins & Quick Ring

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Sharing something into Zenith to pin it, place it, or hand it to the assistant.
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The brief message confirming a pinned item was filed away for you.
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The small floating bubble that sits over any other app.
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Dragging the floating bubble to reposition it over the app.
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Tapping the bubble blooms the full ring right over the app you're in.

Other apps can reach into your launcher. When you share something to Zenith, ask another app to add a shortcut to your home screen, or want the ring — the wheel of your apps that opens under your finger — while you're inside another app, this is how each one works.

Share something to Zenith

Share content from another app and pick Zenith, and a sheet titled "shared to Zenith" opens with a preview and a few choices:

  1. "add to the Shuttle" — keep it in the shuttle, the suite's shared tray, for any Zenith app to pick up later.
  2. "place as a star" — put it on your sky — your home screen — as a star (an app, folder, or shortcut). You pick which region — zone of the sky — it lands in from the "which region?" list, which shows only the regions you can reach on screen.
  3. "ask the sky about it" — hand text to ask the sky, the built-in AI assistant. (Shown for text when the assistant isn't hidden.)
  4. "open it" — open a shared link where it lives. (Shown for links.)
  5. "send to <app>" — hand it straight to another Zenith app that can take it.

Zenith never drops shared content silently — you always choose what happens to it.

Add a shortcut to your home screen

Some apps offer to add a shortcut to your home screen — a browser bookmark, a note, a playlist. Because Zenith is your home app, that request comes to it.

  • The shortcut is filed into Direct, Zenith's pin inbox. Nothing lands on your sky yet.
  • You place it later, like any star, from the add screen — choosing its ring, angle, and orbit.
  • A widget added this way isn't placed here. Add widgets yourself from the add screen's widgets section instead.

Turn on Quick Ring over any app

Quick Ring floats a small "✦" bubble on top of every app, so you can bloom the ring and launch something without leaving where you are.

  1. Open Settings › system.
  2. Turn on "✦ quick ring — the ring over any app".
  3. When asked, grant "display over other apps" — the bubble can't appear without it.

Tap the bubble anytime to open the ring; drag it to move it out of the way. Quick Ring is free, and off until you turn it on.

Over another app, the ring launches apps, stars, shortcuts and system actions. It doesn't offer settings, deep sky — the full A–Z list of every app — the shuttle, ask the sky or the veil — the privacy curtain. A gesture or talisman — a drawn-shape shortcut — set to one of those closes the ring instead.

See also. Reaching out — Shuttle & Zenith apps · Quick Ring over any app · All apps — Deep Sky & the star index · The Zenith Suite & broker

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