See the street, not just the door. Crowded has always told you how busy a venue is. This update adds the space in between: while your map is open, the people out around you appear as crows, so a quiet block looks quiet and a busy one looks like something is happening. A crow is a count, not a person. No name, no account and no history travel with one, and the crow you appear as changes every fifteen minutes, so a crow cannot be followed from one place to the next. Turn it off in Settings and you are not on the map at all. Friends who have added each other can tell which crow is which, and either of them can switch that off too. Also in this update: • Claim your @username. First come, first served. • Profiles and report history. See what your friends have been reporting, and choose who can see yours. • Every library in New York is on the map. All 729 of them — the NYPL, Brooklyn and Queens branches, and the university libraries — were missing entirely. Finals week has somewhere to go. • A Friends filter in the Feed, and you can report a place straight from a Feed card. • Venue owners can post photos. They appear in the venue's story badged as the owner and expire like everyone else's. Owners still cannot touch the crowd level — that only ever comes from people standing in the room. • Save or delete your own photos, several at a time. • Fixes: the nine JFK and LaGuardia terminals show predictions again, seasonal venues no longer read Open while their pin is grey, pins stopped hopping onto rooftops when you tilt the map, and markers no longer flicker while you zoom.

Crowded now runs on iOS 18. If you couldn't install Crowded because it demanded the very newest iOS, you can now. That was far and away the most common thing people wrote to us about after launch, so it's the headline: Crowded runs on iOS 18 and later. Also in this update: • New York's members clubs are on the map — 55 of them, from Zero Bond, Casa Cipriani and Chez Margaux to the Metropolitan, the Century and the Yale Club. The late ones and the lunch ones get different predictions, because they're busy at completely different hours. • Report from inside an airport terminal. JFK and LaGuardia terminals are the length of several city blocks, and the old rule meant you could be standing in the middle of one and still be told you were too far away to report it. • Bounties near me. A new filter on the board for the ones you could actually walk to right now. • Photos say who took them. Crowd photos in the Feed now credit whoever added them, if they've put a name on their profile. • A new tab bar that floats above the map instead of sitting on top of it.

Search is much faster, and every result now shows how busy the place is at a glance. The leaderboard splits into today, this week and this month. Opening hours are more accurate — some venues were showing as open around the clock. Reports post the moment you tap, with Undo on the venue sheet for as long as the cooldown lasts. Vibes are better matched to the kind of place you're actually at. For venue owners: a working radius picker in Area, door-count CSV export, busy-time alerts, and a weekly email summary of your room.