bug fixes and performance updates with rounds planning and play screen

What’s New BirdieCap, achievements, and a better way to play with your group. • BirdieCap — An WHS-style handicap from your 9- and 18-hole stroke, skins, Stableford, and match-play rounds. See it on your profile and other golfers, track trend over time, share a card, and exclude a score when it shouldn’t count. (Not a USGA or GHIN handicap.) • Achievements — Unlock badges as you play, get notified when you earn one, pin them on your profile, and share a card with friends. • Groups — Play, Board, and People in one hub. Post like a feed (photos, video, likes, comments), keep a points leaderboard, and run public groups that still require approval. Private chat stays behind invite or approval. • Hangouts & RSVPs — Hosts can Mark In verbal yeses. Capacity and waitlist for popular hangouts. Live rounds show up as soon as they start. • Scoring — AI Smart Score projections, Smart Fill when you finish, a round timer you can start yourself, format-aware history, cleaner net scoring, and skins settle polish. • Tournaments — Shorter setup, Play-style round detail with media, best-N and average boards, and planned rounds that stay on Play with your partners. • Discover & profile — Find golfers by name, username, city, or zip. Faster onboarding. Scorecard share cards you’ll actually want to post. Thanks for playing with BirdieConnect — see you on the first tee.

Golf trips, hangouts, and scoring get a big upgrade. • Golf trip crew — Invite friends or add guests by name, phone, and email. Guests can get a BirdieConnect account so they’re ready for the trip. • Trip admins — Make a cohost so someone else can help plan stays, itinerary, and costs. • Stay search & map — Find lodging by name or location, browse results on an interactive map with photo pins, ratings, and list numbers that match. • Add to calendar — Save the full trip date span plus itinerary stops to your device calendar in one tap. • Trip chat & costs — Smoother trip group chat, clearer cost tracking, and fund tools so the crew stays aligned on who’s in and what’s owed. • Hangouts — Cleaner planning flow for when and where, with friend invites that match how you plan a round. • On-course timing — Pace and hole timing on the scorecard help your group stay on track during the round. Thanks for playing with BirdieConnect — see you on the first tee.

round bug fixes, and update of the bottom nav design

What’s new in 1.0.8 Tournaments • Invite more players than your confirmed spot limit—overflow goes to the waitlist • Cleaner roster: Invited vs Confirmed • Hosts can mark paid, waive, or require payment on the roster • Share public tournament links and register guests with SMS verify Play & community • Better readiness gating so play starts when the roster is ready • Friends’ live rounds on Home • Referral progress and ambassador updates • Clearer profile score visibility for your rounds Reliability • In-app prompt when a new App Store version is available • Roster save and invite fixes for smoother hosting Thanks for playing with BirdieConnect—tag your group and host your next event!

Watch friends play live — and stay in the loop on every match. LIVE ROUNDS • Share your round live with friends (on by default when you start a round) • Friends see a “Live now” section on Home and can open your live scorecard • Get notified when friends tee off — and when their round wraps up • New Friends live list on the Rounds tab for every active round you can watch MATCH PLAY • Tournament match pairing and attestation reminders — know when it’s your turn to sign • Push alerts when a match is paired and when it’s over • Dual scorecard sign-off for tournament matches HOME & ROUNDS • Cleaner Home screen — Next up moved to the Rounds tab • Hide shouts from Home and bring them back anytime from Hidden shouts • Dismiss live round cards on Home when you’re caught up POLISH • Red LIVE styling and a sharper scorecard header with the course photo • Spectator scorecards hide scoring controls so you can watch without clutter Thanks for playing with BirdieConnect — tee it up and bring your crew.

Share your scorecard as an image New share sheet with swipeable templates: full scorecard, group standings, leaderboard + stats, round stats, and score grid Choose All players or My score Share, download, or copy text Scorecard images include the course photo, BirdieConnect branding, and www.birdieconnect.com Multiplayer & rounds Group standings show ranked players with trophies and medals Score stats use the same colors as in the app (birdies, pars, bogeys, etc.) Fixed duplicate planned rounds when a completed round exists for the same course and day Past round details no longer scroll past the last button Improvements Home Discover carousel cards are cleaner and center when you swipe Connect buttons align consistently across cards

Round media - Capture photos and videos during and after your round - Watch videos in-app with proper thumbnails - Save round media to your camera roll - Remove media you no longer want to share “Photos” is now Media across the scorecard Scores & leaderboards See a shot breakdown (aces, birdies, pars, bogeys, and more) on leaderboards and the round summary Tap Show shot summary to expand or collapse stats per player Score chips use the same colors as your scorecard for quick reading Round summary Redesigned end-of-round screen with course hero image and cleaner layout Final standings show gross, net, and vs par in one place Solo and multiplayer rounds both use the same polished summary view Performance Faster loading on Play Now and Plan Round invite flows

Big update for playing together: • Tournaments you can create, size, and share with rich link previews • Shareable scorecard cards for live and past rounds • New shout-style invites with @usernames and responder avatars • Offline scoring that syncs automatically • Side bets and a cleaner live scorecard • Polished Rounds hub, RSVPs, guest sign-up, round photos, and Discover Thanks for playing with BirdieConnect!

Shouts — Quick "anyone for 4pm?" posts to your friends, a group, or specific people. Tap In/Maybe/Can't, see who's coming with avatars. Referrals — Invite 3 friends, get 12 months of Pro free. They get 1 month of Pro on signup. New Rounds tab — Upcoming, invites, live rounds, past rounds, and tournaments all in one place. Each round opens to a "mini event OS" with chat, scoring, and quick actions. Plus a smoother home screen, sharper Edit Profile, scoring fixes for mixed solo/group rounds, and Pro trial reminders before access expires.

What's new: • Round leaderboard restyle — sorted by net/gross with rank, avatars, @handles, and handicap on each row • Add player mid-round — host can drop a latecomer onto the card without ending the round • Net scoring — proper USGA per-hole stroke allocation with blue dots on the scorecard; Out/In totals show Gross and Net side-by-side • Stableford — variant picker (Standard/Modified) on Start Round + per-hole points badge on each cell • Multi-tee-time rounds — plan a round with up to 4 tee times and split players across them • Set up groups & games — modal to assign players to tee-time groups + teams (A/B) with auto-balance by handicap • Game mode + scoring shown as chips in the scorecard header • Score-entry sheet shows "N strokes given" per player for the active hole • Tee-time reminders — automatic push + in-app notifications 2 days and 1 day before any planned round, with quick Accept/Decline buttons • Stale round nudges — host gets reminded if a live round runs 24h+, or if a scheduled round was never started • Recent courses — quick-pick row of your last 5 played courses on Play Now and in the course picker • Day-of-week shown in date-picker labels (e.g. "Sat, 06/06/2026") Fixes: • Direct messages no longer flash twice when sending • Admin / Moderator badges now show correctly on group member lists (was incorrectly showing as Member) • "Invite all" button when planning a round inside a group — invites every member; over-cap players auto-join the waitlist on accept

What's new in 1.0.2 - Tournaments inside your groups - Run a full stroke-play tournament with your group — a single event or season-long. Pick a flyer image and add a gallery of photos. Set the bet (per-hole or total purse), entry fee, prize pool, and trophy. Track up to 100 players. Net scoring uses your handicap and the course rating; choose Basic (preserves decimals — 95 − 14.9 = 80.1) or USGA Course Handicap. Cumulative tournaments support a "best N rounds" cap. Score entry made easy The course picker now remembers your three most recent courses — one tap and you're in. Live "net X" preview as you type each gross score so you can sanity-check the math. Forgot a player or typed the wrong number? Owners and admins can re-open a past round and fix it. Better group management - Group admins can now edit group settings and invite new members. - Owners and admins can ban members from rejoining a group. - "Resend" any pending invitation if it got missed in someone's inbox. Plus dozens of polish fixes — quick action bar layout, and a hot-fix for the rare "infinite recursion" error a few users hit when joining a group.