Beacon the way your station actually works, and a fix for background beaconing. • Four ways to beacon, in Settings › Beaconing and from the beacon button on the map: Off, SmartBeacon, Every so often, and Fixed position. Tap the button and pick one — the panel shows which is in use. • Fixed position is for a home station: type your latitude and longitude once and beacon from it. No GPS, no location permission, no drift, no battery cost. • Every so often is the simple one: a beacon every so many seconds, from wherever you are, and an optional minimum distance so a parked station stays quiet. • Network TNC: send and receive over the air through a KISS TNC on your network — Direwolf on a Raspberry Pi, or a TNC behind a serial-to-WiFi bridge. Settings › Network TNC. It can be on at the same time as a Bluetooth TNC and the software modem. • Fixed: SmartBeacon could go quiet for a whole drive with the app in your pocket. iOS wakes the app on significant changes of position, and those positions are worked out from cell towers and Wi-Fi, so they are often too rough to publish — the app held every one of them back and never gave up waiting. It now sends one anyway once you have been quiet for your Slow Rate, because a position a few hundred metres out beats no position at all. • Also fixed: SmartBeacon's rates never applied in the background without High Precision. A wake-up carries no speed, so the app read every one as a station standing still and used your Slow Rate. It now beacons on each wake-up instead, never closer together than your Fast Rate, and says so under Settings › Beaconing › What Happens in the Background. • A typed latitude or longitude is no longer rounded to a tenth of a degree.

APRS over the air with no TNC, offline maps, and a clearer map. • Software modem: with an audio cable between your radio and your phone, APRS Mobile can be the modem itself — it decodes 1200 baud APRS from your radio's audio and transmits the same way through a radio set to VOX. A live spectrum, a level meter and a list of decoded packets make setting the audio straightforward. • Transmitting over the air is now off until you confirm you hold an amateur licence. Receiving needs no licence and is unaffected. • Offline maps: download OpenStreetMap-based map data for the areas you care about and the map works with no network at all. Downloads resume where they left off, even after the app is closed, and show their progress on the map. • Via: one control on the map for every link — APRS-IS, a Bluetooth TNC and the software modem — with what each one is doing. • Background beaconing now says what it will actually do: the map shows when the app keeps asking for your position, and explains what to expect in each mode. • Station cards carry more: drag one up for how the packet reached you, the grid square, how often the station beacons and the raw packet. • Messages with offensive language are hidden behind a tap; blocking and reporting are unchanged. • Long sessions stay light: stations and tracks are pruned by age and by hard limits, so leaving the app running all day can't grow without end. • Help is now a button on the map, and covers everything above.

APRS Mobile is back, rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 26. • A new map with live station symbols, tracks and PHG circles, a Layers panel to choose what's shown, and a status bar that shows your APRS-IS connection at a glance. • Tap any station for a quick card, then its full details page, updated live every time the station is heard. • Weather and telemetry history charts for stations that report them. • APRS messaging: chat with any station over APRS-IS, with automatic retries and delivery receipts. IGates can carry your messages to radios on RF. • Search nearby stations, callsigns, cities and zip codes. • Improved SmartBeacon, with background beaconing when you allow it. • Landscape support on iPhone and a full-screen layout on iPad. • An updated Help page.

Added iPhone 6+ support Fixed speed conversion bug in beaconing Turn on secure text in passcode cell Show last beaconed position on map