A fix for fixed positions west of Greenwich or south of the equator. • With Beacon set to Fixed position, Settings now has N/S and E/W beside the latitude and longitude. The number pad has no minus key, so a station in the Americas or the southern hemisphere could end up beaconing from the wrong side of the world. Choose W or S and the position is sent correctly. • If you use a fixed position, check that your station shows up in the right place on the map.

APRS Mobile Transmit now comes as a one-time purchase, too. • Lifetime: pay once and transmitting is yours for good, with nothing to renew. Choose it next to the yearly subscription on the purchase screen. • Already subscribed? Settings › Transmit has Get Lifetime. If your yearly subscription is still set to renew after you buy Lifetime, Settings reminds you to cancel it in Manage Subscription. • Lifetime can be shared with your family through Family Sharing. • Receiving stays free, and if you first downloaded APRS Mobile before 1.4.0 you still transmit at no charge.

APRS Mobile can now use the TNC built into your radio, through a Bluetooth LE serial adapter. • Radios with a built-in TNC: plug a Bluetooth LE serial adapter, such as the DSD TECH SH-B30-BLE, into the serial port of a Kenwood TM-D710, TM-D700, TH-D72 or a similar radio, and APRS Mobile sends and receives through the radio's own TNC. Settings › Radio lists it as a Serial adapter. • Radio Check: a checklist from the adapter to the air. It reads the adapter's settings, finds out what's on the radio's serial port, and switches the TNC to KISS for you, all without transmitting. Send Test Beacon then sends one position report and tells you which digipeater or IGate passed it on. • BTECH UV-Pro: its built-in TNC connects directly over Bluetooth, with no adapter. Put the radio in Bluetooth pairing mode the first time you connect. • Send Using and Show Stations From are now on the settings screen of every radio link, including the Software Modem and Network TNC, not only the Bluetooth TNC. • Return the TNC to Normal When Disconnecting: takes the radio's TNC out of KISS when you disconnect, so the radio's own APRS works again. • Serial Log: the raw bytes to and from the TNC, to share when asking for help with a radio APRS Mobile doesn't know yet. • Your beacons' comment now says "APRS Mobile aprsmobile.app" unless you've written your own in Settings › Station. • Help has a new section, "A radio with a built-in TNC": the adapter's jumpers, the cables and settings, and notes on other radios. There's a setup guide with photos at aprsmobile.app/blog.

Your phone can now be a digipeater or an IGate, there's an Apple Watch app, and transmitting moves to a small yearly subscription — free forever if you already had the app. • Already have APRS Mobile? Nothing changes. If you downloaded it before this version, transmitting stays free for you, with nothing to do. Settings › Transmit says Founder. • New here? Receiving is free, for good. Transmitting — beacons, messages, the digipeater — needs APRS Mobile Transmit, a yearly subscription with the first month free. Cancel any time in Settings › Transmit › Manage Subscription. • Digipeater: with a radio connected, Fill-in repeats WIDE1-1 packets after waiting 5 seconds to see whether another digipeater already did, so a weak station nearby gets a hand without adding noise. Wide is there for genuine hilltop sites. Settings › Radio. • IGate: forward what your radio hears to APRS-IS, and optionally carry APRS-IS messages out to stations your radio heard directly. Forwarding to APRS-IS is free and needs no licence confirmation. • Apple Watch: beacon your position with your own symbol and comment, read and answer your conversations, and see the stations nearest you. Tap one for its details, and a weather station's graphs by day, week, month or year. • Fixed: a station whose only radio was a network TNC — Direwolf on your network — could never transmit. Network TNC settings now carry Allow Transmitting too. • Off the grid when your subscription renews? You keep transmitting for 14 days, until the phone can reach the App Store. • Fixed: a station with an SSID showed no weather or telemetry history. • Fixed: the network TNC's status showed its port with a comma, as in 8,001. • The app is now named APRS Mobile on the Home Screen, and Help covers all of the above, including how to cancel.

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