RED GRID LINK IS NOW PART OF RED GRID MGRS Every Pro feature in this app is now unlocked, free: all four themes, unlimited offline map regions, After-Action Report export, and 8-device Field Link sessions. Link stays on your device and keeps working, but this is the final update. New development, including encrypted team awareness on an offline map, continues in Red Grid MGRS.

Red Grid Link v1.6.1: - NEW: 7-day free trial on Pro Annual — try everything before you subscribe. - Redesigned plans screen: clearer tiers and one-tap subscribe. - Session info now shows your plan's device capacity, with a clear upgrade path when your team outgrows it. - Field Link reliability fixes and interface polish.

Red Grid Link v1.6.0 -- Field Readiness Preflight: - NEW: Field Readiness Preflight. One tap before you step off coverage gives you a single READY / CAUTION / NOT READY verdict across GPS, Bluetooth, offline map coverage, encryption mode, team roster, last peer contact, and battery. - One-tap fixes right from the check: grant location or jump straight to your offline map download. OS-level items point you to the right setting. - Whole-team readiness board: see every teammate's Ready / Caution / Not Ready status at a glance before the mission starts (Pro+Link and Team). - Your step-off readiness is captured in the After-Action Report so you have a record of how the team kicked off. - The rate-your-app prompt now only appears after a session that actually linked up with a teammate. - Reliability and polish across Field Link.

Search optimization and listing updates. Same Red Grid Link v1.5.5 app — improved discoverability on the App Store.

Red Grid Link v1.5.5 — Reliability and trust: — Field Link sync is now end-to-end AES-256-GCM encrypted in PIN and QR sessions — After-Action Reports include the GPS route from your session — Map annotations now persist across app restarts — Wrong PIN or QR shows a clear rejection instead of an indefinite spinner — Session teardown is resilient to partial failures (sync engine no longer hangs) — Privacy policy refreshed to disclose optional crash diagnostics (PII off, GPS coordinates stripped)

Red Grid Link v1.5.4 — Field Link reliability and team coordination: — Field Link sessions now work end-to-end between iPad and iPhone hosts. The previous build silently blocked iOS-to-iOS joins. — Position updates from the host now reach every joiner reliably. Larger payloads are chunked so iOS no longer truncates them mid-broadcast. — Joiners now inherit the host's operational mode automatically. Start a SAR session and every connected device sees SAR-flavored labels, not whatever each device had saved. — Lead promotion now propagates correctly: a peer promoted to lead actually receives the role, and joiners trust role changes from the session host. — Changing your display name in Settings during an active session now updates your callsign live for connected teammates instead of waiting until the next session. — Map content (waypoints, search areas, boundaries) now persists across leaves and rejoins. Closing a session and rejoining the same one no longer wipes everything you placed on the map. — Emergency SOS no longer re-displays the alert overlay after acknowledgement and cancellation. Stale 30-second retransmits arriving after a cancel are now suppressed. — Field Link Diagnostics added under Settings → Help & Support so you can copy a snapshot of GPS / Bluetooth / session state and email it to support if you ever need help. — GPS now keeps a fix on iPad when stationary, and the GPS stream resumes correctly after granting location permission while the app was backgrounded. — Multipeer Connectivity runs alongside Bluetooth on iOS so iPhone-to-iPhone discovery keeps working when Bluetooth is constrained. — Smarter scan list, sessions in proximity no longer cross-connect, and a clearer in-app explanation of how location is used and stored on your device.

Red Grid Link v1.5.2 — Field Link now works: - Field Link peer sync: teammates appear on the map and peer list in real time over Bluetooth. - MGRS accuracy: corrected 100km grid square letter calculation for all UTM zones. - Mode callouts: tactical quick-send labels now change per operational mode (SAR, Backcountry, Hunting, Training). - Peer names: callsigns now display on map markers and in the peer list. - Drawing: markers and annotations now save properly; message bar hides during drawing. - PIN join: scan-to-join now prompts for PIN on secured sessions. - UI polish: SOS button repositioned, annotation toolbar accessible, keyboard flicker fixed. - New tactical tools: peer distance/bearing popup, celestial navigation with sun/moon bearings.

Red Grid Link v1.5.1 — critical fixes: - Emergency Beacon: SOS button now correctly triggers the team alert and emergency overlay on the map screen. - Field Link discovery: Scan/Join now actually initiates BLE discovery and surfaces nearby teammates. - Hardened ECDH P-256 key exchange and stream cleanup during session teardown. - Stability improvements and minor bug fixes. If you experienced trouble starting a Field Link session or triggering the SOS in v1.5.0, this update resolves it.

Security and communication update: • Real ECDH P-256 key exchange -- every peer gets unique derived encryption keys • Emergency beacon: one-tap SOS sends GPS to all teammates, retransmits every 30 seconds • Tactical messaging: 7 pre-canned messages (HELP, STOP, RALLY ON ME, ALL CLEAR, FOUND SOMETHING, HEADING BACK, NEED SUPPLIES) plus free text • BLE Coded PHY now actually negotiated for extended range on supported devices • Signal quality warnings when connection weakens • Bug fixes and performance improvements

Extended range and navigation update: • BLE Long Range: up to 1km range on supported devices (Coded PHY) • Signal strength indicator for each connected teammate • FixPhrase: share your location as 4 easy words (~11m accuracy) • Download OpenStreetMap or OpenTopoMap tiles for offline use • Coordinate bar cycles between MGRS and FixPhrase display • Connection quality warnings when signal weakens • Bug fixes and performance improvements

NEW IN V1.3 — TEAM FEATURES • Team roles: Lead, Scout, Medic, Comms, and custom roles with callsigns • Waypoint sharing: save personal waypoints or share with your team • Tap-to-place map annotations visible to all connected peers • Boundary alerts: Lead sets a geofence, get notified if anyone crosses it • Enhanced After Action Report with per-member tracks and boundary events • NATO phonetic voice callouts for hands-free position updates • Session export/import for backup and review • New marker categories: hazard, rally point, objective, cache • Annotation improvements: 6 colors, undo, and delete • 986 tests passing

v1.3.0 — Localization Update - Added support for 30+ languages across the entire app - Improved UI text contrast and accessibility - Bug fixes and performance improvements