Help

The three things people actually write in about.

I'm not getting reminders

Almost always one setting, and it is not the one you would expect. Android treats daily reminders as alarms, and that needs its own permission — separate from the notification permission you already granted. Without it the app schedules reminders and Android quietly drops every one.

The app asks for this once, on a system screen. If you closed that screen or pressed back, it never asked again — and nothing on screen told you reminders had stopped. That is the usual cause.

1. Allow alarms and reminders

Settings → Apps → Special access → Alarms & reminders → LinguaNews

Turn it on, then open LinguaNews once so it can reschedule. This alone fixes most cases.

2. Check notifications are allowed

Settings → Apps → LinguaNews → Notifications

3. Stop the phone from shutting the app down

Some phones close background apps aggressively to save battery, which can swallow a reminder even when it is scheduled correctly. The wording differs by manufacturer:

OnePlus and OPPO (ColorOS)

Settings → Battery → App battery usage → LinguaNews → Unrestricted
Settings → Apps → LinguaNews → Auto-launch → on
Open Recent apps, hold the LinguaNews card, tap the padlock

Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO (MIUI / HyperOS)

Settings → Apps → LinguaNews → Autostart → on
In the same screen, set Battery saver to No restrictions

Samsung

Settings → Battery → Background usage limits — make sure LinguaNews is not in "Sleeping apps" or "Deep sleeping apps"

Any other Android phone

Settings → Apps → LinguaNews → Battery → Unrestricted

To check it worked without waiting a whole day: open LinguaNews, go to Settings, tap the reminder time and set it a few minutes ahead. Then close the app completely and wait. If it arrives, you are set — put your usual time back afterwards.

My streak and words disappeared

Your progress lives on your device and, when you are signed in with Google, a copy is kept in the cloud. Uninstalling clears the device copy. If you were signed in, sign in again with the same Google account and everything comes back on the next launch.

If you were never signed in, there was no cloud copy to restore from. Signing in now protects everything from here on.

Why isn't today a perfect day?

A perfect day needs both halves: a lesson and a vocabulary review, on the same day. Either one on its own keeps your streak alive, which is why a day can hold your streak without turning gold.

Seven perfect days in one Monday-to-Sunday week make a perfect week. If you miss a day, that week can no longer be perfect on merit — so one missed day a week can be bought back with diamonds, from the ring on the home screen.

Still stuck?

Write to linguanewsapp@gmail.com and say which phone you have. Reminder problems are nearly always manufacturer-specific, and knowing the model is usually enough to name the setting.