Updated onboarding to help you understand the app navigation, communities, and how to play much better than previous iterations. New Scout functionality in solo and group walks where you can chat with Scout, have it help you set up future meetups, schedule future walks, or just talk about your dog while you walk. New navigational menu accessible via tapping the Tailmates logo in the top-left corner, giving you full navigation access to the entire app, allowing you to manage your health passports, co-owners' health records, goals, progress, care, and things near you.

First steps begin here. Earn badges for adding your dog, completing your profile, posting, walking, opening a walk, bringing friends, and building a streak. Every unlock brings confetti, a haptic, and a share card. See what comes next. Swipe from your streak to see which badges are up next and what to tap. Your checklist now includes "See your streaks and badges." Find your vet faster. Search by vet, clinic, city, or ZIP. Pick from suggestions and scan results on a small map. Open Add my vet to save the clinic to your dog's record. Lab verified partners are clearly labeled. Write without losing your place. Feed and pack comment fields stay with the keyboard while you type. Replies start with the right @mention, and typing @ in a post or comment opens a dropdown of profiles. Repost with your own words. The new repost composer lets you add an optional comment and stays open through feed refreshes. Open any post and get an answer. It loads, explains when it is unavailable, or offers Retry if the connection stalls. Likes feel immediate. A light haptic lands when your like does. Take on a pack challenge. Pack owners and admins can set a distance or walk target for seven or 14 days. Your pack can follow progress, see top contributors, and share the challenge. Ask a packmate to walk. Tap Want to walk? on their profile or roster row. When they start walking, Tailmates tells you. Your stats, back on top. The walk sheet opens on your milestone and your stats, where you look first, and the two join controls are one plain line each. The keyboard now steps aside the moment you tap somewhere else, on every screen you type on. Walk along with someone. Tap in on an open walk and your own walk starts right there, already in their party. Their roster and the chat sit on one pane and your own pace on the next. Nothing to schedule, and no second walk to start. Cheers land on both sides. Sending a cheer now feels like sending one. You get the same moment the walker gets, named for who you just cheered. Ask Vets is a board. Every question and every answer is there to read, on the same wall your other packs use. Ask your own, anonymously if you would rather, and comment on anyone else's. Notifications you chose. Every kind has its own switch now, and only the ones about you personally start on: a cheer, comment or mention on your post, a request addressed to you, a result for your dog, and the reminders you set yourself. Everything else stays quiet until you turn it on. A reshared post leads somewhere. Tap the quoted post to open the original, and add its author to your pack from the same card. Your checklist finishes. Every row of the profile checklist now completes when you do the thing it asks, reading the Tailmates mission included. Pack tiles line up in an even grid. Walks that finish, finish. When a walk cannot reach the server to close out, it falls back to the summary your phone already recorded, so a finished walk is never a blank page, and a walk with nothing in it clears itself instead of stranding you on it. The pre-walk picker always opens with a dog chosen, so Start is ready when you are.

Live now. A directory of the walks, runs, and rides happening right now, listed by the people out doing them. It shows a city, never a route. Tap in to walk along or send a cheer. Walk party. Open your walk to packmates and walk together from your own streets, with one roster, one chat, and live pace for everyone. Swipe between the invite card, the party, and your walk stats. Cheers with a name. When a cheer lands mid-walk, you see who sent it. In a party, cheer any packmate by name. Your first finished walk gets a cheer from the Tailmates team. The invite card. An open walk starts on its invite card. Send it with one tap and get company. Feed. Friends is now Feed. It shows everyone, and you can add anyone as a packmate from their post. Share a post to X, Threads, or Instagram Stories with its photo. Virtual meetups. Schedule a pack walk with no place to be. At the start time everyone taps go from their own street and walks as one group. Packs can also set a standing weekly walk, run, hike, or ride. Around the score. Your dog's walk style: five types read from how a walk flows, never from how far it goes. Walk with more than one dog at a time. The walk summary shows average pace, average speed, and the walk points and streak the walk earned, and the share card carries the streak. Badges for cheers and community messages now climb a ladder, and every badge explains why it was earned. Walk polish. The in-walk clock no longer freezes. The Go countdown fires on time. A live walk no longer shares where it started, and a listed walk shows your city only. Location sharing stays coarse unless you choose precise. Real names in comments, and a tab bar that sits lower.

Meet Scout, your dog's AI assistant, new with Tailmates Silver. Ask anything about your dog, get walks planned, reminders set and packmates rallied, right from the Feed. You confirm every action before it happens. Talk instead of type: tap the mic to dictate to Scout or a new post, transcribed on your device. Silver includes generous monthly Scout credits, with optional top-ups if you ever run out. Your watch gets a full walk screen too: duration, distance and points ticking live, with a page for packmates out walking now. Plus fixes and polish.