Invite friends into your circles right from your conversations with them. - Tap their name at the top of the conversation to open their card, then Invite to circle. - Or tap the + next to the message field and choose Invite to circle. - A brand-new conversation offers it right under "Just the two of you". It shows for the circles you run that they can still join.

The door opens. - Send message, from the + on your home screen. Find someone by name or @username, or a circle by its name or @handle, and say hello. - You choose who can message you: everyone, your circles, or nobody. You'll be asked once when you update, and it lives in Settings after that. - The first time someone outside your circles writes to you, the conversation says so, with Block and Report right there. - Every circle gets an @handle of its own. Anyone who can find you in search can also find the circles you run. To keep one out, turn off Listed in search in its settings. - Admins can invite someone already on Beaconaut with a card instead of a code. They have a week to answer. Circles are still invite-only. Arriving and leaving, fixed. - Tapped On my way in the app? Within 50 ft you're asked "You made it?", even with your phone in your pocket. No answer for five minutes and you're marked here. - Walk well past 250 ft from your own beacon and stay away two minutes, and you're asked "Still there?" Five unanswered minutes and it comes down, so nobody shows up to an empty beacon.

Send a beacon and it goes straight up into its own live screen. Answering is two doors now: On my way, or Can't make it — and you can answer right from the notification. Tap On my way and your circle sees how far you are from the beacon — just the distance, never where you are — as a ring around your face that closes as you arrive. Tap the door to see everyone who's coming, and tap a face to see their card and message them. Moved somewhere else? Update the pin and everyone on their way follows. When you get there, Beaconaut asks if you made it. Atlas has two new views: Ground, and Origin, where your people stand around you under the stars. Plus Beaconauts to use as your photo, smoother motion throughout, and fixes.

When you send up a beacon, your live location now reaches only the people in your circle right now — someone who leaves or is removed stops seeing it at once. Plus privacy and reliability fixes.