New here? Kid Pickup now walks you through getting started: name your family, pick your avatar, add your kids with theirs, invite a grandparent or helper, and add your first pickup or activity. Joining a family by invitation? You get the same steps from your avatar on, and Getting Started in Settings takes anyone through them again. I'm here, then Picked up. Whoever is doing a pickup gets a nudge when it's time, with an I'm here button, then one to mark it Picked up or Dropped off. The family hears each step, and the pickup shows when they arrived and when it was done. To do. Homework, tests, school trips and forms to sign have a list of their own, at the top of the Events tab, and To do is a choice when you add an event. Give each one a day and tick it off when it's done. Whoever is on it, or every parent and guardian, gets a reminder at 6 p.m. the evening before. Schedules in, without the typing. Paste a season from an email, or use a photo or a PDF of the fridge sheet, and tick the pickups you want. Follow a TeamSnap, GameChanger, school or Google Calendar link, and new and changed dates come in on their own. Import File now reads .ics and .csv files properly. And your work roster can be read from a photo or a PDF into your work hours. React to comments. Hold a comment on a post to add an emoji, the same eight as Chat. Family has moved off the bottom bar: tap your family's name at the top of Home. The + for adding something is in the bar now, between Chat and Events. And the plans screen now walks through what Kid Pickup does, one feature at a time. Fixes: saving a new event no longer shows a conflict warning about itself, and photos further down Home load properly after the app has been in the background.

Photos. A post can now carry up to three photos, laid out on the card, and you can take one with the camera without leaving the composer: tap the camera, or choose from your library. Everything in the bell. The bell at the top right now lists posts and comments beside the pickup updates, newest first, so there is one place to see what happened. Tap one to open the post. Posts never light the Events dot: that still counts only pickups that need something from you. A number on the app icon. The badge on the icon is the same count as the dot on the Events tab: unread news about a pickup that still needs something. It comes down as you read, and it never counts posts or chat. Invitations that get through. Invite someone and the app offers to share the link yourself, by text or any app, as well as sending the email. The email now comes from Kid Pickup with your name on it, and a reply goes to you. If an invitation hasn’t been opened a day later, you get one nudge with the same two options.

Events that aren’t pickups. Add a dentist appointment, a parent-teacher meeting, a recital or homework to the calendar: choose Event, beside Drop-off, Pick-up and Both. Nobody is asked to do an event, so there is nothing to claim, no nudges and no “missed”. Everyone it’s shared with is reminded at the times you choose, and it shows on Home, in the Day, Week and Month views, and in your Apple or Google Calendar link. Both parents, one calendar. A parent or guardian you invite can now change any pickup, not only the ones they added, unless you choose otherwise on their profile. Your family hears when a pickup changes. Move the day, the time or the place and everyone who can see it is told what changed and who changed it. Whoever had said “I’ll do it” gets a note of their own asking if it still works. Deleting one is announced too. Your family’s avatar is now changed from the top of the Family screen: tap it. A small ask: every so often, Home asks whether you’d leave a review on the App Store. Not now puts it away for a month, and Rate Kid Pickup is in Settings whenever you like.

Kid Pickup now opens on Home: one private feed for your whole family, with today’s pickups at the top. HOME • Share a photo or a quick update. Everyone in your family sees it, and nobody outside it. • React to a post, or tap Comment to answer it. A parent or guardian can post on a child’s behalf. • Today’s pickups sit at the top, with who has each one. Anything in the next hour comes first. • Every pickup update lands here too, with a badge saying where it stands now: open, claimed, done, called off or missed. • Type a pickup into the same box, like “Soccer Thursday at 4”, and Home offers to add it to the calendar. • The three dots on a post let you edit or delete your own, or report one. A parent or guardian can delete any. EMAIL, IF YOU WANT IT • Turn on Email Notifications in Settings and you get an email too when you’re asked to do a pickup, or when one still needs someone. Off unless you switch it on. • Feed Notifications, also in Settings, quietens posts and comments and leaves the pickup alerts alone. WHO CAN CHANGE WHAT • The family owner now decides what each parent or guardian can do with pickups: change any, only their own, or none. Set it on the invitation or from their profile. GETTING AROUND • The bottom bar is Home, Calendar, Family, Chat and Events. Dashboard is now called Calendar, and its Week view is a list of that week’s pickups, a day at a time. • On a pickup’s card, whoever has it is shown at the top right. In Chat, a reaction sits on the corner of the message it answers. We’ve updated our Terms of Service to cover the feed. You’ll be asked to agree to them once when you open this version.

ADD A PICKUP FASTER • Type it as a sentence, or say it with your keyboard's microphone, and the form fills itself in. • Choose what it's for from a list of activities, each with its own symbol. • Give the drop-off to one person and the pick-up to another. KNOW WHO HAS IT • Ask someone by name and they get their own notification, with Accept or Decline. • Answer "Can't make it" right from the notification, so the family knows to ask someone else. • Say yes to every day of a repeating pickup in one tap. • Pickups nobody has taken yet stand out in amber, and every notification says whether it's still open or who claimed it. • See the avatar of whoever has a pickup, on its card and on the notification. WHEN PLANS CHANGE • Call off one day of a repeating pickup, for rain or a sick day, and put it back on later. • You're asked before saving a pickup that clashes with another, and work conflicts for the week ahead show at the top. FAMILY CHAT • Your family chat now carries your family's name and its own avatar. • Each person's messages are in their own colour, and you can react to a message by holding it. • More avatars to choose from, for children and grown-ups. ALSO • Someone you invite now signs up straight into your family. • The red dot only shows when there's something you haven't seen. • Dark mode is back, under Settings. • Read what's new any time, at the top of Activity.

A steadier, more up-to-date Kid Pickup. Notifications that actually arrive On some phones, Kid Pickup never asked for permission to send notifications, so nothing came through. It asks properly now. Settings shows whether yours are on, and helps you switch them back on if they're blocked. Always up to date The app refreshes when you come back to it, so when your co-parent takes the 3:15 you see it straight away. Tapping a notification updates the screen too, and "today" moves on even if the app's been open since yesterday. Pulling to refresh no longer blanks the screen. Also new • Directions: tap to open a pickup's address in Maps • Your own picture on the dashboard • The list under the calendar shows just the day you're looking at • Private chats with just some of the family, not everyone • Grown-ups can pick a picture too, not just the kids • A new Events tab in place of Activity • Choose whether a grandparent sees the whole schedule or just their own pickups • Send a grandparent a link to claim a pickup, with no app or account • Repeating pickups land on the days you pick, and "Never" really never ends Fixed • A crash at launch that some people ran into • The keyboard no longer covers the message box in Chat • If something can't save, you'll see a message saying so instead of just a buzz • This afternoon's pickups no longer show up as past on a child's page • Helpers who see only their own pickups are no longer notified about everyone else's • Removed the "Email Notifications" switch, which didn't do anything Thanks for helping us get the pickup sorted.

More ways to get the pickup sorted, and fewer surprises at 3:15. Family chat There's now a Chat tab for your whole circle. Messages show up within seconds, with a notification and a dot on the tab so nobody misses one. On Premium, every pickup gets its own thread too. Work conflicts Add your work hours and Kid Pickup will tell you when a pickup nobody's taken lands during your shift, or within 30 minutes of it. One tap asks the family for help. Also new • Every pickup shows who's got it • Tap "I'll do it" right from the notification • See when Grandma's seen it, and get a heads-up if a notification didn't reach someone's phone • Pickups that need two people, or one per child • Send a grandparent a link and they can claim the pickup with no app or account • Add your pickups to Apple, Google or Outlook calendar • Day and week views, plus a "Picked up" button • Choose when the "nobody has this yet" alert comes: 1, 2, 3, 6 or 12 hours before, or off Fixed • Repeating pickups behave now. Mon/Wed/Fri means Mon/Wed/Fri, and "Never" really never ends. It takes a village.

Stay in the loop When someone adds a pickup, takes one on, or can't make it anymore, everyone else in your family gets a notification. Tap it to go straight to the event. When you open this version, allow notifications so your family can reach you. Reminders for the right person Whoever's doing the pickup or drop-off gets a reminder before it's time to leave. If nobody has taken an event yet, parents and guardians get a heads-up the day before and again two hours before. A fresh look A new floating tab bar, round calendar highlights, and dates that sit neatly in their circles. Clearer plans Each plan now shows what it includes, and Settings shows the plan you're on. The AI scheduling assistant is now part of Premium. Plus smaller fixes throughout.

Child avatars Give each child their own look. Choose a character, animal or object instead of initials, and it shows up on your family list, schedule and event cards. You can switch back to initials anytime from Edit Child. Easier family invites When a grandparent, sitter or co-parent taps Join in your invite, they now land in your family. They see your schedule and share your subscription, instead of being asked to set up a family of their own. The invite email is shorter too: get the app, then tap Join.

A maintenance release. We changed how the app handles a bad connection to our servers. Before, certain failures could quietly do nothing; now they surface properly instead of leaving you staring at a screen wondering whether your change saved. Nothing has moved and there's nothing new to learn. Something not working right? Email creative@thinkxdesign.com — a real person reads every one.

Getting help with pickup just got easier. You can now invite grandparents, guardians, and anyone else you trust to join your family circle by email — they'll get a link, tap it, and they're in. Also in this update: - Invitation links are more reliable, so people actually make it through sign-up - Switching between accounts is smoother - Fixes to subscription management Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What's new in KidPickup 1.2 • Refreshed Subscribe screen with a brand-new look and our friendly whale logo • Local-currency pricing that automatically matches your App Store storefront, so the price you see is the price you pay • Secure family invites — partners, parents, guardians, and helpers now receive a unique invite link that drops them straight into your family circle with the right role • Smoother sign-up flow: no surprise trials. You'll only start a free trial if you choose one • Swipeable feature carousel with tappable dots so you can jump to any highlight • Reset app data option in Settings to start fresh anytime • Fixes for the web preview and an app crash when loading in a browser • General performance improvements and bug fixes Thanks for using KidPickup! Have feedback? We'd love to hear from you.