Join someone else's computer

Before you start

• You need the invite link from the person sharing their computer.
• Joining needs the Unlimited plan on your own account. A free trial counts, and you can start it while joining. See The Unlimited plan.
• The other person’s computer must be on and running Enjoy.

Steps

1. Open the invite link

   It opens in your browser and shows the computer’s name, who invited you, and the projects you’ll get, each marked Can work or View only. Select Accept invite. If you’re already signed in with the invited email and it’s confirmed, select Join instead.

2. Sign in or create your account

   If you aren’t signed in, Enjoy asks you to. Use the email the invite was sent to, so you can get in without waiting for approval.

3. Confirm your email if asked

   If the invite named your email and it isn’t confirmed yet, type the six-digit code Enjoy emailed you, then select Confirm.

4. Start Unlimited if asked

   If your account doesn’t have the plan, Enjoy offers it for this computer. Select Start my free trial or Continue to checkout (or Manage billing if you already have a subscription), and finish in the page that opens.

5. Wait to be let in

   If the invite is for you, Enjoy shows Joining with the computer’s name and lets you in on its own. Otherwise it shows Waiting for and the owner’s name while they decide on their computer. Select Cancel request to stop asking.

6. Start working

   Once you’re in, the shared computer opens at the first project you can work in.

Good to know

• Already using the Enjoy computer app? You can join there instead. Select the circle with your initial in the top-right corner, select your computer under My computers, then choose Join someone else’s computer. Paste the link and select Continue, then select Join, or the button that asks the owner to let you in. When you’re in, Enjoy shows You’re in with a button to open the first project.
• In the iPhone app, copy the link, then choose Someone else’s computer, which reads the link you copied. It’s on the app’s first screen, and in Settings under Connect another computer. Opening the link on an iPhone with the app installed also opens it in the app.
• If the invite was meant for someone else, Enjoy says This invite is for someone else. Select Use a different account to sign in with the invited email, or ask the owner to let you in.
• If you open an invite to your own computer, Enjoy says This invite is for other people and offers to connect this device as one of yours instead.
• Each device needs its own approval. To use the shared computer on another of your devices, see Add your other devices to a shared computer.
• What you can do depends on each project’s access. See Working on someone else’s computer.

If something goes wrong

This invitation has expired. Ask the owner for a new link.

Invites last seven days. Ask the person who sent it for a new one.

This invitation expired or has already been used.

Each link works once, and making a new link ends the old one. Ask the owner for a new invite.

They declined your request

Enjoy shows that the owner declined. Ask them for a new invite. The old link no longer works.

They didn’t answer

A request waits about ten minutes for the owner. After that, the link no longer works. Ask the owner to open Enjoy on their computer and send you a new invite.

Couldn’t reach the computer

The owner’s computer is offline or Enjoy isn’t open on it. Ask them to open Enjoy, then select Try again.

This computer isn’t available right now. Ask its owner to open Enjoy.

The owner’s computer is paused, or their plan has ended. Ask them to check Enjoy on their computer.

Paste the complete Enjoy invite link.

What you pasted isn’t a whole invite link. Copy the full link again and paste it.