# Friends and groups

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In LFG Alarm, friends are people you have added to each other, and groups are your own named lists of friends, like golf, the book club or the gym. A group makes a social alarm with the same people a two-tap job: open the group, tap **Create alarm with this group**, and the alarm starts already shared with everyone in it.

## Add friends

1. Open **Settings** (your picture, top right) and tap **Friends**.
2. Type a username in **Search a username** and send a request, or tap **Invite friends** to send your invite link to someone who is not on LFG Alarm yet.
3. When they accept, they appear under **Your people**. Requests waiting on you show on the **Friends** row in Settings.

Friends are two-way: both of you agree. Being friends does not let anyone into your alarms on its own. Each alarm has its own list of who can ride it. See [Sharing and reach](https://lfg.gm/wiki/sharing-and-reach).

## Make a group

1. In **Settings** > **Friends**, switch to the **Groups** tab.
2. Tap **Create a group**.
3. Under **Name**, type one (for example "Golf"), and pick an **Emoji**.
4. Under **People**, tap **Add people**, tick the friends to add, and tap **Add** (it shows how many you picked).
5. Tap **Save**.

![The Groups tab in Settings > Friends](https://lfg.gm/wiki/shots/groups-list.jpg)

![A group: its name, emoji and people, with Create alarm with this group](https://lfg.gm/wiki/shots/group-edit.jpg)

Only you see your groups. Nobody is told they are in one, and the people in a group never see each other through it. If you unfriend someone, they drop out of your groups.

To change a group, open it with the arrow on its row and edit the name, the emoji or the people (**Take off** removes one person). **Delete group**, or holding the group's row, removes the list only; the people in it stay your friends.

## Make an alarm with people

There are three ways in, all from **Settings** > **Friends**:

- **One friend:** tap **Create alarm** on their row.
- **A few friends:** hold a friend to start picking, tap the others, then tap **Create alarm with** and the number you picked. **Unselect** lets go.
- **A group:** tap **Create alarm** on its row, or open it and tap **Create alarm with this group**.

You then pick the kind of alarm as usual (a time, a post, a price, anything). Rocco opens with who it is with, for example "cool, I'll make an alarm with you and Golf ⛳. what kind?", and the alarm starts with **Make it social** on, set to **Friends**, with those people already on its list. They get it in their notifications and tap to ride along.

![Rocco starting an alarm with a group](https://lfg.gm/wiki/shots/alarm-with-group.jpg)

## Add a group to an alarm you already made

Open the alarm's reach (who can open it), choose **I approve each one** under **How people get in**, then tap **Pick from your friends**. Your friends and your groups are there to tap; pick a whole group and everyone in it is added at once. **Add by username or email** still works for anyone else. People you add yourself skip the asking.

A group is only a shortcut. It fills the alarm's list with the people in it at that moment. Adding someone to the group later does not add them to alarms you already made.

## Unfriend, block or report

Each friend's row has a menu (the three dots) with **Unfriend**, **Block** and **Report**:

- **Unfriend** takes them off your friends and out of your groups. You can add each other again later.
- **Block** asks first. They will not see your alarms or comments and cannot add you, and it unfriends them too.
- **Report** asks what is wrong (spam or a scam, harassment, pretending to be someone else, an offensive name or picture), takes an optional note, and can block them in the same step.

To unblock someone, open **Settings** > **Block list** and tap **Unblock**. You can also block someone from the report sheet on their alarm, or from the menu on their comment.

## An example

Sam plays golf with the same four friends most Sundays. He makes a group "Golf ⛳" once. Each Friday he opens it, taps **Create alarm with this group**, picks **⏰ Time**, sets Sunday 6:30am, and writes the tee time in the creator's note. All four get the alarm in their notifications and tap to ride.

## From your AI agent

If you use an AI agent with the [LFG Alarm connector](https://lfg.gm/agents), it can add a whole group to an alarm by the group's name. It lists who is in it and adds nobody until you say yes.

## On the website

Groups work the same way on [lfg.gm](https://lfg.gm/) when you are signed in: **Settings** > **Friends** has the same **Friends** and **Groups** tabs, the same menu on each friend, and an alarm made on the site rings on your phone too.

## Questions

### Can the people in my group see the group?
No. Only you see your groups and what you named them.

### Do I have to be friends with everyone in a group?
Yes. A group is made from your friends. For anyone else, add them to an alarm by username or email, or share its link.

### If I delete a group, do my alarms change?
No. Alarms keep the people who were added to them.

### Does riding someone's public alarm make us friends?
No. Riding never makes anyone a friend.

See also [The fastest way to make a group alarm](https://lfg.gm/group-alarms), [Riding an alarm](https://lfg.gm/wiki/riding-an-alarm) and the [glossary](https://lfg.gm/wiki/glossary).

## Keep exploring

- [The wake board](https://lfg.gm/wiki/wake-board.md): Who got up first, who snoozed most and who slept in, ranked from the ring to I'm up.
- [Discover: finding public alarms](https://lfg.gm/wiki/discover.md): Browse, filter and ride public alarms, and see big trades as they happen.
- [Sharing and reach: private, friends and public alarms](https://lfg.gm/wiki/sharing-and-reach.md): Who an alarm is for, how to share it, why reach locks, and how time zones work for shared alarms.
- [Riding an alarm: joining someone else's](https://lfg.gm/wiki/riding-an-alarm.md): Join an alarm from its link, ring with everyone else, and keep a copy if its creator takes it down.
- [Editing and deleting alarms](https://lfg.gm/wiki/editing-and-deleting.md): Change anything until someone joins; after that an alarm is sealed, and taking it down leaves riders a copy.
- [The fastest way to make a group alarm with your friends](https://lfg.gm/group-alarms.md): Save your people once as a group, then one tap makes an alarm that rings every phone together.

## About LFG Alarm

LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone, iPad and Android. It rings for times and for moments (a post on X, a stream going live, a token price, a wallet buying, an event starting), and one shared link makes every phone that joined ring together. Rocco, the cat inside the app, does the watching and the waking.

- Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gm.lfg.app
- Download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6821089085
- Use it from an AI agent: add the MCP server https://mcp.lfg.gm as a connector, then ask in plain words.
- Every page for agents: https://lfg.gm/llms.txt