- Lock Screen drive cards: they arrive when someone sets off even if Squadar is closed, close when the drive ends, and two people setting off in one car share one card. - Drives survive Squadar being closed or your phone restarting mid-drive. - The "Left" pin marks where the car was parked and the time they set off; from a saved Location it says "Left Home". - Tap someone to see how long it would take you to drive to them. - Save a Location straight from someone's card on the Map. - Your watch shows people's photos. - A parked phone reports less often the longer it sits still, saving everyone's battery. - Premium: opening the app or watching the Map quietly asks for fresh positions from anyone who has gone quiet. - Siri understands more ways of asking where someone is. - Fixes: no duplicate arrival or departure alerts across Groups, Refresh no longer says "No response" too early, and a freeze that could close the app mid-drive.

Ask Siri where your family are, see every Group on one map, and a drive card that turns up on its own. • Ask Siri where someone is, who is at a Location, who is on a drive, or how much battery their phone has. Name the app as you ask, as in "Where is Mum in Squadar?". Check in, or switch Group, by voice. • "View Everyone" puts people from all your Groups on one map, each marked with the Group they came from, on your iPhone, your watch, and your Home Screen widget. • A drive card now appears on your Lock Screen when someone sets off, even with your phone in your pocket, and leaves when the drive ends. • Locations can wait before announcing an arrival: right away, after a minute, or after three. Driving past somewhere no longer counts as arriving. • History shows the exact times someone arrived and left, and a stay reads "still here" only while their phone is still reporting. • With Apple Intelligence switched on, your week's drives are summed up in a few plain sentences, written on your own phone. • Many smaller fixes across the map, Groups, Locations, Settings and the watch.

A new device is ready in seconds, easier on your battery, and a say in what a managed family member hears about. • Setting up a new phone, or reinstalling, shows your family right away. History arrives quietly behind. • If you manage someone in a Group, you can choose who Squadar tells them about in group: everyone, only the adults, or nobody. They can see who chose it, and anything sent to them directly still comes through. • Easier on the battery while you drive: your position, route and trail travel together now, and a phone sitting still stops telling the family you are driving. • Two people riding in one car appear as a single marker, and a short drive that ends in your own driveway is no longer thrown away. • iPad shows your family without taking location sharing away from your iPhone, and turns with the device. • Meet Up cards no longer freeze once the arrival time passes, name the spot plainly, and say when an estimate is out of date. • On the newest iOS: drag your Groups into the order you want, choose who a widget shows, and tap someone's drive card to follow them. • Many smaller fixes across the map, Groups, Settings and the watch.

Smoother map, smarter following, and a more reliable answer to "where are they now". • Everyone's dot now glides at the screen's full frame rate, and a driver's avatar stays exactly on the end of their route. • Following someone keeps up at street level, survives switching groups and tabs, and tapping yourself now keeps you centred too. Every member card has a close button. • "At Home" and "Left Work" now come from that person's own phone, so everyone in the group sees the same answer. • Refresh reaches a family member whichever group they have open, gets answered far more often, and says "No response" when a phone stays quiet. Opening the app quietly asks anyone over five minutes stale for a fresh report (Premium). Family phones are no longer woken while your app is closed. • Drives end promptly when you park at any saved place in your group. • Meet Up: change the meeting spot at any point, ETAs refresh every minute, and driving past the spot no longer counts as arriving. • Reinstalling brings back your name and photo, even before you join a group. • Home Screen widgets update sooner, use the app's colours, and drop a group you leave right away. • Check-in notifications name the person, and the status line says you are offline when there is no signal. • Many smaller fixes across Groups, Locations, Settings and the watch.

This update makes Squadar easier on your battery and steadier on the road: - Parked phones now truly go quiet — GPS powers down within minutes of settling instead of staying at full pace. - Smoother drives: brief stops at lights no longer interrupt location tracking or trigger extra updates. - Fixed a rare case where a phone could stop updating for the family after switching tracking modes. - Phones in several Groups sync more efficiently, so iCloud no longer slows the busiest phones down. - If iCloud briefly paces things, you'll see a calm status note instead of a red error.