Fixed a crash when reopening the app. - If the app opened and then shut itself straight away, sometimes several times before it would stay up, that is fixed. It was in the background location feature and it affected anyone who had it switched on. - Turning on background updates also stopped asking twice. It used to send you to Settings to allow location Always right after you had just allowed it Always. New: photo circles. - A shared album. Everyone in the circle can add photos and everyone can see them, so the pictures from a trip end up in one place instead of four camera rolls and a group chat. - Groups in a network get one when an admin turns it on. It appears in your Travel tab and in the group chat, and it goes when you leave the group. - Some network circles ask you to agree that the network can use your photos. You are asked once, in plain words, and only photos you post afterwards are covered. Saying no is fine and costs you nothing else in the app. - Starting your own circle is a Mates+ feature. Being in one never is. Networks can run events. - A network or one of its groups can post an event with a photo, a price, a place and tickets. It shows up for the whole network, or just for the group, whichever the organiser chose. - Events can repeat. A weekly pub quiz is set up once rather than reposted every week. - The What is on page lists everything a network has coming up, its own and every group's, with a photo, a price and who is going. It is on the About page beside Groups. The app opens without a connection. - It used to sit on the loading screen until it found one, which is exactly the moment you need it: landed, no data, trying to reach a meeting point. It opens now whatever the signal is doing, and fills in what it can once there is some. - Your recent chats are kept on the phone, so a room you had open is still readable with no data. - So is where your mates were, for a day, with a note of how long ago if it is more than a few minutes old. It says what it knows and when it knew it, rather than showing you a stale dot as if it were live. - The meeting point card carries readable coordinates and opens in Maps, so the address survives losing signal on the way there. Smaller things. - Notifications now ask properly on iPhone. Most people were never actually asked because the prompt was being spent before it reached the screen, which is also why some of you have had none at all. If you were missed, you will be asked next time you do something that would notify someone. - Invite-only groups no longer show up in a network's group list for people who cannot join them. Admins and moderators still see them.

The passport you share now has the whole world on it. - The world map on your shared passport was only ever showing a slice of the planet. It shows all of it now, poles to Patagonia, with every country you have been to filled in. - It follows the map theme you picked in Settings, so a card shared from a custom map looks like your map. - The name and your numbers sit on the map now, with the ocean fading into the card behind them. - A network's Where everyone is opens on a globe. It spins to face wherever most of your people are, with a dot for every city they are in, sized by how many. Tap it to open the full one and spin it yourself. - Counts only, as always. Never a name, never a pin on a person. Thanks for being here this early. Keep the feedback coming, we read all of it.

Networks are here. Your community, wherever everyone actually is. - Networks: a group you are already part of gets a home in NomadMates. One main channel for everyone, a group for every country and city your people are in, a map of where everybody is, and invite links that record who vouched for whom. - Join with a code or a link, and see what you are joining before the code is spent. - Run one from your phone. Create and edit groups, write your rules, upload your logo, approve who is waiting, hand out invites and promote a moderator. - Admins can post in the network's voice, so an announcement reads as the network rather than as one person. - Moderators can remove a message from a group they run. - Squint now shows three photos of the same city at once. One cropped, one pixelated, one blurred. Every guess loosens all three. - Tap any of them to see it full screen, and pan around. - Squint follows your own date now, so the day rolls over when it does for you, not for a server somewhere else. - Missed yesterday? You can go back and play it. - Tag someone in a chat with @. They get a notification even in a busy group, and their name opens their profile. - Notifications open the thing they are about, instead of just opening the app. - Every request in one place. Mate requests, network joins and group joins now share one Pending inbox, and a request you sent can be taken back. - Notification settings are grouped, and show only the switches that can actually fire for you. - Open somebody's profile from Discover, a chat or an event, without being mates first. - Messages already in your language stay in your language. Short messages no longer get mistaken for another one. - Take a story no longer crashes on iPhones with more than one rear camera. - The map gets your location when you open it, instead of waiting for something to move. - The map welcomes you to the city you are in, rather than to every town you pass through on a bus. - Saving a photo from a chat now tells you it saved. - Pop-up sheets no longer run off the bottom of the screen. - Signing up lets you reveal your password, and says which documents you are agreeing to.

Squint is here. A new city every day, and you get ten percent of a photo. - Squint: guess the city from a photo. Miss and it zooms out a bit, and an arrow points you towards the answer. Five guesses, a new city every day, and a streak if you keep coming back. - Share your result without spoiling it. Send it to a mate in the app and they can fire theirs straight back. - Play it on the web too, at nomadmates.app/squint. No account needed, so send it to anyone. - Find it under the search bar on the map, or hide it there if it is not for you. Settings has your past puzzles and your streak. - Discover suggests places in your city: where to work, eat, and go out. It fills itself in as people arrive somewhere new. - Suggestions stay put while you look at them, and tell you why when a city is not ready yet. - Read receipts moved off the main settings list onto their own page, with a proper explanation of what turning them off actually does. - Signing up asks for your first name now, instead of a display name, which was quietly turning into usernames. - The events map no longer teleports home when you switch to the list and back. - Recentring on yourself puts you back in your own city, not the last one you looked at. Thanks for being here this early. Keep the feedback coming, we read all of it.

The big one. Chat now speaks your language, and the map is yours to design. - Tap any message written in another language to read it in yours. Free, always. - Mates+ goes further: a whole conversation translates as you scroll, no tapping. - Search inside a chat. Find the thing someone said three weeks ago. - Pin up to three messages per chat, for 24 hours, 7 days, or until someone unpins. - Share your live location straight from the chat, or drop a meeting point with a map and a time. - Photos show up the second you pick them, with upload progress, and you can keep typing while they send. Backing out of a chat no longer loses them. - Save any photo someone sends you, straight to your gallery. - Satellite is now free for everyone. Mates+ adds a fourth style you design yourself: your own accent, the basemap colours, and which labels and borders show. - Bad hotel wifi is handled properly now. You can see when a screen is showing older data, and it refreshes itself the moment you are back online. - The chat list shows "You:" when the last word in a thread was yours. - When you finish setting up, we ask once whether to keep your city current while the app is closed. Say no and it stays off. Thanks for being here this early. Keep the feedback coming, we read all of it.

Your city keeps itself up to date now. - Background city updates: your mates see the right city even when the app is closed. - The welcome to your new city hello now shows when you arrive, instead of the next time you open the app. - After you leave a country, we offer to log the trip for you. One tap and it is in your travel history. - Trips only count cities you actually stopped in, so passing through on a bus no longer shows up as a visit. - Fixed the visa screen not filling in your allowed days. - Fixed the sign-in keyboard covering the Sign in button. --- Anyone can join now. - You no longer need an invite code to sign up. Create an account and you're in. - Got a code from a mate? It still works. Tap "Have an invite code?" on the sign-up screen, or scan their QR. - Fixed a few rough edges on the sign-up flow.

A little polish and a couple of fixes. - A cleaner sign-in screen, with a clearer way to create your account. - A new animated welcome when you open the app. - Fixed a bug that could show "Sign in first" on your own profile when you were already signed in. - Fixed the invite and sign-up screens so there's always a way back. Thanks for being here this early. Keep the feedback coming, we read all of it.