DecorAI on Your Phone: Widgets, Live Activities and Siri Shortcuts

Most of what DecorAI does happens after you upload a photo, but a handful of features only exist on your phone. DecorAI is an AI interior design app that lets users transform photos of existing rooms into realistic redesign concepts, and on iPhone and Android that core workflow is wrapped in mobile-only conveniences: a Lock Screen Live Activity that tracks a running generation, home-screen widgets, four dedicated share-sheet entries, Siri App Shortcuts, and direct decorai:// links that jump straight into a specific tool. None of them change what a design looks like — they change how fast you can start one and how little attention you have to pay while it renders.

This guide walks through what each mobile feature actually does, how to turn it on, and which real workflows it speeds up — from sending a listing photo into DecorAI without leaving your browser, to starting a redesign with Siri while your hands are full, to picking a project back up on an iPad. None of this is a separate purchase or a hidden setting; it's built into the free app on both platforms, with a few pieces (noted below) available on iOS only.

Key Takeaways

• Live Activities (iPhone only) show a running DecorAI generation on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you can back out of the app and keep using your phone while it renders.
• Home-screen widgets exist on both iOS and Android, showing your latest designs plus one-tap shortcuts into specific tools.
• The share sheet adds four DecorAI entries — redesign, Style Transfer, Furniture Import, and Moodboard — so a photo from Photos, Pinterest, Instagram, a browser, or a marketplace app can go straight into the right tool.
• Siri App Shortcuts and decorai:// deep links open the app to a specific tool by voice, from the Shortcuts app, or from your own automations.
• Try DecorAI free on the web, then carry the same account onto your phone or tablet.

What Mobile-Only Features Does DecorAI Have?

Everything DecorAI can generate — interior redesigns, exterior and garden concepts, floor plans, Room Analysis, Design Reports, Empty the Room, Virtual Staging, Furniture Import, Inpainting, Style Transfer, and Moodboards — works the same on the web app, iPhone, and Android. What differs on mobile is the plumbing around that workflow: how a photo gets into the app, how you track a generation once it's started, and how quickly you can jump back into a specific tool. That plumbing is widgets and Live Activities, the share sheet, Siri Shortcuts, and deep links, covered one at a time below.

What Are DecorAI Widgets and Live Activities?

On iPhone, a DecorAI Live Activity shows the progress of a running generation directly on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Start a redesign, lock your phone or switch to another app, and a small progress indicator keeps you posted without you having to sit and watch a spinner inside DecorAI itself. It's a genuinely small thing that removes a real piece of friction: AI renders take real time, and Live Activities mean that time doesn't have to be dead time staring at the app.

Both iOS and Android also offer home-screen widgets, which show your most recent designs and quick-start buttons that open a specific tool directly — useful if you always start in the same place, whether that's the AI Interior Designer or Room Analysis. To add one: on iPhone, long-press the home screen, tap the + button, search for DecorAI, and pick a widget size; on Android, long-press the home screen, choose Widgets, find DecorAI, and drag it into place. Live Activities require a supported iPhone with them enabled in iOS Settings → DecorAI.

How Do You Send a Photo Into DecorAI From Another App?

Your phone's share menu is often the fastest way into DecorAI, because it skips opening the app and picking a photo manually. DecorAI adds four entries to that menu: "Redesign with DecorAI," "Transfer Style with DecorAI," "Add furniture with DecorAI," and "Add to DecorAI Moodboard." That means a photo can go straight from Photos, Pinterest, Instagram, a browser tab, or a real-estate or marketplace app into exactly the right workflow — a listing photo into a redesign, a Pinterest pin into a Moodboard, or a furniture-store product shot into Furniture Import — without ever manually re-uploading a saved image.

In practice this collapses a workflow that would otherwise be save photo → open DecorAI → find the right tool → upload down to a single share-and-tap. It's the feature that makes DecorAI feel like it's built into the rest of your phone rather than a separate destination you have to remember to visit.

Can You Open DecorAI With Siri or a Direct Link?

Yes, on two levels. DecorAI provides Siri App Shortcuts on iPhone and iPad, so you can open the app or jump straight into a design tool by voice or from the Shortcuts app — the shortcuts appear automatically once DecorAI is installed, and you can add them to your home screen or trigger them from a Focus automation. Underneath that sits a full set of decorai:// deep links: decorai://create/interior, /exterior, /garden, /floor, /corner, /analysis, /empty, /staging, /furniture, and /moodboard, plus decorai://projects and decorai://history.

These links power the widgets and Siri shortcuts, but they work in your own automations too — query parameters and trailing slashes are ignored, so a link like decorai://create/staging?utm_source=notes opens Virtual Staging directly, campaign parameters and all. If you regularly start the same tool — Room Analysis before every open house, say — a single Shortcuts automation or a home-screen bookmark to the right deep link removes the tap-through entirely.

Which Permissions Does DecorAI Ask For, and Why?

Three, and every one of them is optional. Camera access lets you photograph a room directly instead of picking an existing photo; without it, you can still upload from your gallery. Photo library access lets you choose a photo and save results back to your device; without it, you can't pick or save images. Notification permission tells you when a generation finishes or when your free daily designs reset; without it, everything else works exactly the same, you just have to check back manually. All three can be changed later in iOS Settings → DecorAI, or Android Settings → Apps → DecorAI → Permissions.

Does DecorAI Work on iPad, Tablets, and Offline?

DecorAI runs on iPad and on Android tablets with the same feature set as the phone apps, and the larger screen genuinely helps — it's noticeably easier to compare design versions side by side and to mask precisely in the Inpainting editor on a bigger canvas. Signing in with the same account means a redesign started on your phone in a hallway can be finished on a tablet at your desk, which is also a convenient way to present a few options to a client or a partner. The web app is a solid tablet option too, if you'd rather not install anything.

Offline is more limited: generating a new design needs an internet connection, because the AI models run on DecorAI's servers rather than on your device — that applies to new generations, History sync, and Moodboard sync alike. Browsing designs already saved to your device works without a connection. One piece genuinely runs locally regardless of signal: color-palette extraction for Moodboards and Design Reports reads the actual pixels on your device, which is why it returns instantly even on a slow connection. On weak Wi-Fi, upload time is usually what you're waiting on, not the AI itself.

Who Gets the Most Out of These Features?

A few patterns come up constantly:

• Anyone browsing listings or showrooms, who wants to send a photo straight from a real-estate app or a store's website into a redesign without saving and re-uploading it.
• Agents and stagers moving between properties, who benefit from a Lock Screen Live Activity that keeps a render going while they walk the next unit, plus deep links that jump straight to Virtual Staging or Room Analysis.
• Pinterest and Instagram-driven planners, who use the share-sheet's Moodboard entry to collect inspiration as they scroll, rather than screenshotting and re-uploading later.
• Anyone presenting options to someone else — a partner, a client, a roommate — who starts on a phone and finishes or reviews on an iPad's bigger screen.

The full set of design tools these features feed into is listed in the DecorAI feature directory.

DecorAI Mobile Features FAQ

What is a DecorAI Live Activity?

A Live Activity is an iPhone-only feature that shows the progress of a running DecorAI generation on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you can leave the app and keep using your phone while a design renders.

Do I need to enable Live Activities separately?

Yes — they need a supported iPhone and Live Activities turned on for DecorAI in iOS Settings → DecorAI. Everything else in the app works the same with them off; you just lose the Lock Screen progress view.

How many entries does DecorAI add to the share sheet?

Four: "Redesign with DecorAI," "Transfer Style with DecorAI," "Add furniture with DecorAI," and "Add to DecorAI Moodboard," available from Photos, other apps, and most browsers.

Does DecorAI work without an internet connection?

New generations don't, since the AI runs on DecorAI's servers. Browsing designs already saved to your device does work offline, and color-palette extraction for Moodboards and Design Reports also runs locally on-device.

Is DecorAI's mobile app free?

Yes — DecorAI is free to try on iPhone, Android, iPad, Android tablets, and the web, with the same account and design history following you across all of them.

Conclusion

None of DecorAI's mobile features change what a redesign looks like — that's still the same AI Interior Designer, Room Analysis, and Style Transfer tools you'd get on the web. What they change is how little effort it takes to start one: a photo shared straight from another app, a render tracked from the Lock Screen instead of a spinner, a tool opened by voice or a single tap, a project picked back up on a bigger screen later. Try DecorAI on the web app first, then install it on your phone to see the widgets, Live Activities, and share-sheet entries for yourself, explore the rest of the toolkit in the feature directory, or head back to the DecorAI homepage to get started.