1. Open the Bible App.
2. Once it open, you will see in the right side a text block explaining you that you can use your YouVersion account. Click on it to open the Sign-Up dialog so you can enter your YouVersion username and password.
3. Once done, click in the button below the form to enter and in the App and if everything is ok, your account should be working in your Windows 8 Bible App.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

You can sign-in to your YouVersion account on a laptop / desktop computer at http://www.youversion.com/sign-in using the username and password that you chose and wrote down when you signed-up.

If you get a “Timed Out” or “Not Connected” message:

• make sure you have verified the email address associated with your account (see How To Verify My Account)
• power your device off/on and then retry the Sign-In process above

1. Hit the WinKey (Windows key on your keyboard) or move your pointer to the left bottom corner of the screen to open the tiny Startup Menu window, then click on it open it full.
2. Once in the Startup Menu screen (Metro), type “Store” and click on the icon to open the Windows 8 Store.
3. When the store opens type “Bible LifeChurch” to bring up the Bible App (icon with a brown bible with a “Holy Bible” written on it).
4. Click on the Bible App icon to open its details and then hit the button “Install” to install it on your computer.

After all these steps, the Bible App should be installed. You just need to come back to the initial screen of the Startup Menu (Metro) and the Bible App icon should be there.

There are many additional features that you can take advantage of by creating a free YouVersion account. For more information, see How To Sign-Up.

1. Enter in the “Reader” mode.
2. When a Bible page opens, tap on the Book name (top center) to display a list of books of the Bible.
3. Search in the list for the name of the book (in this case John), then click on it.
4. The chapter list will update to the number of chapters of the selected book, click on 3.
5. The verse list will update to the number of the verses of the selected chapter, click on 16.

You can tap on the name of the book at the top (John) to navigate to another book/chapter/verse.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The screen for choosing a Chapter looks very similar to the one to choose a Verse. Note which tab is highlighted at the top to avoid confusion.

Please see other How To entries in this section to learn how to find other versions, other languages, etc.

1. Open the “Reader” mode.
2. Then in the top left corner, the book and the chapter will appear, click on it.
3. A menu showing the books, chapters and verses will appear, select what you want and then click outside this menu (but inside the app) to load your selection.

1. Open the Settings app on your device (the icon looks like a set of three sliders).
2. Tap Apps
3. Tap Bible
4. Uncheck the “Show Notifications” button.

This will completely disable all push notifications for The Bible App.

1. Open the Settings app on your device (the icon looks like a set of three silver gears).
2. Tap Notifications
3. Scroll down to Bible and tap it.
4. Turn all notification settings to “Off” and Alert Style to “None”.

This will completely disable all push notifications for The Bible App.

Most likely you’ll need to remove the connection to Facebook not only from your YouVersion account, but also remove the connection from your Facebook account. Please follow the steps below to fully disconnect and reconnect your account.

1. Visit http://www.facebook.com (make sure you are logged in) and hit the downward triangle that appears in the top right hand corner of the window, just to the right of the “Home” button.
2. In the drop down that appears, hit “Privacy Settings”.
3. On the page that comes up scroll down to “Ads, Apps, and Settings” and hit “Edit Settings”.
4. The top option on the next page should be “Apps you Use”. Hit Edit Settings for those.
5. Hit the “x” by “Bible” and / or “YouVersion” to remove the connection of the Bible App from your Facebook account.
6. Once you have done this, visit http://www.youversion.com/settings and hit the “Connected Accounts” button again.
7. Select the Facebook tab and hit “Connect”.
8. Follow the instructions to re-connect your Facebook account to your YouVersion account.

1) Audio may take up to 30 seconds to load for some users.

2) Audio might not play at all or stop during playback for some users.

On February 5th, 2013 we pushed the 4.1.1 update to Google Play which resolves both of these audio issues.

When you confirm that you want to use the Refresh option, the app will erase the data save locally. This does not delete all the info that is stored on our servers. If you are connected to the internet when you Clear Data, you will not notice anything even happened, because the app will immediately begin repopulating it’s internal information from the servers. The reason we sometimes recommend the use of the Refresh feature, is because sometimes the information the app stores can be corrupted. Refreshing deletes the bad info, and downloads the correct information from the servers.

You can check and see what information is saved to your YouVersion account by logging into the YouVersion website at http://www.youversion.com and logging in. After you login you can check your bookmarks, notes, highlights, and reading plans to see that they are all there. All the information that you see associated with your account there will be restored after you use the Refresh feature.

When you are ready to use the Refresh option on your device,
1. Go to the dashboard or menu screen of the Bible app.
2. Scroll to the bottom and tap “Settings”.
3. At the very bottom of Settings, you will see “Refresh”.
4. As soon as you select Refresh, a pop-up will ask you to confirm that you do want to delete the local data. Tap the button to confirm you want to clear the data.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Refresh option wil not delete the offline versions of the bible you have downloaded. The Refresh option is supposed to be a quick painless feature, and depending on how many versions you have downloaded, or how fast your internet connection is, downloading all of them again could be a very painful operation.