Online check in so much easier from phone then PC

[wolft927]

So just did our online check in and this time we simply did it from our app on our phone, so much easier. I say that because when I used my laptop precise cruise I could never get the picture to accept. This time 1st time for both my wife and I accepted and done. 

[debenson0723]

I have a photo saved on my desktop of my computer and upload it every time, first try. Never had an issue. I prefer using it because it is easier for me to see the screen than on my phone. Glad the app worked for you best.  Enjoy your cruise! 

[RocketMan275]

2 hours ago, debenson0723 said:

I have a photo saved on my desktop of my computer and upload it every time, first try. Never had an issue. I prefer using it because it is easier for me to see the screen than on my phone. Glad the app worked for you best.  Enjoy your cruise! 

Plus I find the keyboard on my computer easier to use.

[Rick&Jeannie]

I try to do anything/everything I can on a desktop PC.

[complawyer]

at 75, i admit i'm still technologically challenged! I use my phone for pictures and phone calls ( what else could a phone be designed for)? lol

 

for me its much,much easier to check in on my computer. its easier to read the screen, and when it comes to the picture, i have my 24 year old grandson take care of that for me.

[cruiser2015]

1 hour ago, Rick&Jeannie said:

I try to do anything/everything I can on a desktop PC.

I totally agree.

No clue about NCL's app, but many tasks are diificult, even impossible, working form a phone screen.

I avoid like the plague.

[Anoynmous Phoenix]

I think that the picture settings for online check-in have been decreased as ours were difficult in the past nut now go far more quickly.

 

However i have heard that they will redo at the port anyway.   That was what happened at Reykjavik late last year. 

[cruiseny4life]

On 12/16/2023 at 10:59 AM, wolft927 said:

So just did our online check in and this time we simply did it from our app on our phone, so much easier. I say that because when I used my laptop precise cruise I could never get the picture to accept. This time 1st time for both my wife and I accepted and done. 

I just find it easier, because the device is pretty much in my hands at all times. I've definitely checked in on a PC before, but the last couple times it was my phone. The phone is slightly easier as I don't have to go turn on the PC and sit at the desk or grab a laptop from it's dusty corner storage area. 

[RocketMan275]

58 minutes ago, cruiseny4life said:

I just find it easier, because the device is pretty much in my hands at all times. I've definitely checked in on a PC before, but the last couple times it was my phone. The phone is slightly easier as I don't have to go turn on the PC and sit at the desk or grab a laptop from it's dusty corner storage area. 

I have the other side of that.   Ever time I want to use my phone I have to look for it.   My computer is always on me desk where I left it last and it is always turned on.  

Before I retired, I had to carry two phones.  One for business and one for personal.  Turned me off for lugging around a phone.  My wife otoh is like a teen age girl.  She gets separation anxiety when she doesn't have her phone with her.

[cruisinmeme]

23 hours ago, cruiseny4life said:

I just find it easier, because the device is pretty much in my hands at all times. I've definitely checked in on a PC before, but the last couple times it was my phone. The phone is slightly easier as I don't have to go turn on the PC and sit at the desk or grab a laptop from it's dusty corner storage area. 

It has been FOREVER ago since I used my laptop. It is a pain! I use iPhone or iPad for check in. Only problem I ever had was trying to submit photo with glasses on. Once I bothered to read directions it was easy. 

[zqvol]

Never use a phone, always an iPad. Works great

[stinkyharriet]

On my last cruise, my sister & I were checking in on our phones and there was something we couldn’t do, I think we were trying to book a show.  I was able to go to my account on the NCL site on my PC and book it there.

[ChiefMateJRK]

On 12/16/2023 at 9:09 AM, debenson0723 said:

I have a photo saved on my desktop of my computer and upload it every time, first try. Never had an issue. I prefer using it because it is easier for me to see the screen than on my phone.

Same here.  Sounds like user error to me.  I learned to type on an actual typewriter 50 years ago and I'll take a real keyboard over those new-fangled touch screens seven days a week.  😎

[RocketMan275]

1 hour ago, ChiefMateJRK said:

Same here.  Sounds like user error to me.  I learned to type on an actual typewriter 50 years ago and I'll take a real keyboard over those new-fangled touch screens seven days a week.  😎

My dad insisted on both his sons taking a typing class.  He said it just seemed like a valuable skill.  I told him before he passed, that typing class was the most useful class I've taken.  

 

I wonder if touch typing ability affects preferences for PC over phone.

Edited December 19, 2023 by RocketMan275

[ChiefMateJRK]

9 minutes ago, RocketMan275 said:

My dad insisted on both his sons taking a typing class.  He said it just seemed like a valuable skill.  I told him before he passed, that typing class was the most useful class I've taken.  

 

I wonder if touch typing ability affects preferences for PC over phone.

Absolutely.  I took typing when I was a Sophomore in high school.  It was mostly a freshman girl class back then.  My handwriting has always been crap, but I could type faster than most of those girls. 😎

 

Still can.  My FIL used to criticize me for typing until he stood by as I typed a letter to a Senator for him on my computer.  Probably one of the few things I ever did that impressed FIL (RIP).

[RocketMan275]

15 minutes ago, ChiefMateJRK said:

Absolutely.  I took typing when I was a Sophomore in high school.  It was mostly a freshman girl class back then.  My handwriting has always been crap, but I could type faster than most of those girls. 😎

 

Still can.  My FIL used to criticize me for typing until he stood by as I typed a letter to a Senator for him on my computer.  Probably one of the few things I ever did that impressed FIL (RIP).

I had a real tyrant of a boss back in the 80s who was astounded when he learned I could compose a report while I typed.  He was not a good boss.

[MoCruiseFan]

Not sue why you would check twice (phone then PC).  I just check in for everyone on my C and I', doen with it.  As far as the picyure goes, it really does not matter since they almsot always take a new pic when you check in.  I simply use a silhouette pic for everyone.
 

[Bkmat]

New question about checking in: Can my husband and I check in together or do we have to have separate logins?  We are both listed as traveling together on the NCL account, but it is in his name.  

[shof515]

You can check in together 

[RocketMan275]

13 minutes ago, Bkmat said:

New question about checking in: Can my husband and I check in together or do we have to have separate logins?  We are both listed as traveling together on the NCL account, but it is in his name.  

I always check in for both of us.  IIRC, her name appears as also being on the same reservation and there's a block to check to check in for both.  Very easy.