THE FREE CHAT ALLOWANCE, COUNTED THE WAY IT REALLY WORKS The assistant gives you five answered questions across a rolling 30-day window, not five per day — the badge that promised a daily reset was wrong. It now shows the same number on the chat screen and in Tools, and it only moves when you get an answer. A request that fails, times out, is refused for a bad location, or lands while the service is unavailable no longer spends part of your allowance. STEADIER WORDING The daily risk briefing now writes "1 BOM warning active today" instead of "1 BOM warnings active today." WHAT THIS APP ACTUALLY COVERS The store description has been rewritten to name the feeds and regions the app really serves: fire danger ratings and total fire ban status for NSW and SA, air quality for NSW, QLD, and SA, surf and tide data for 28 curated beaches, transit boards where the operator's feed responds, and parking around Sydney and Melbourne. Where a source has no data for your area, the screen says so instead of showing a number. The description also states plainly that AusGuard is an independent app that aggregates public feeds — it is not a government alert service, and it is never a substitute for calling 000.

HONEST ANSWERS WHEN A FEED FAILS The AI screens no longer invent data. Previously, if a fetch failed or your location was not available, the morning brief, daily planner, today timeline, risk score, route weather and hyperlocal report filled in a locally generated card instead — plausible-looking numbers, an hour-by-hour table built from the time of day, or a low risk score that nothing supported. They now show what went wrong and let you retry. A risk score only appears when there is a real reading for your location behind it; a missing score is shown as missing, not as "no threats today". PROTECTING YOUR AI ALLOWANCE An AI request with a missing or out-of-range location is now rejected before it is counted, so a bad location can no longer spend part of your daily allowance on a request that could never be answered. CLEARER STALE-DATA WARNINGS The banner at the top of a screen no longer says you are offline when the real cause was a rejected session or an upstream outage. It names which datasets fell back to cache and how old that data is. OUTAGES AND AIR QUALITY The power outage summary now quotes the same unplanned-outage figure it displays, in English and in Chinese. New South Wales keeps its monitoring station list when the observation feed times out, instead of losing the whole state. Queensland commute boards report that the feed is unavailable rather than showing an empty timetable.

BUILT FOR BIGGER SCREENS AusGuard now makes proper use of wide displays. On a large phone or a tablet the home dashboard splits into two columns, tool and activity lists gain columns instead of stretching, and content stays clear of the bar down the side. Portrait, landscape and every width in between are supported. MORE RELIABLE DATA Air quality now reports the rating from your nearest monitoring station rather than defaulting to a generic value. The hazard counts on the home dashboard and in your daily summary are scoped to your own state, instead of quietly falling back to a national total when your region cannot be resolved. If one data feed is slow or unavailable, the home dashboard keeps showing the conditions it already has instead of replacing the whole screen with an error. Commute boards now list arrival times for every stop on a route, not just the first few. Shared weather cards keep their local air quality reading. Long labels on index tiles wrap instead of being cut off mid-word. PRIVACY AND TRUST A full privacy policy is now available inside Settings, describing what leaves your device and what never does. Deleting your account now also clears your registered devices and push subscriptions. SMALLER FIXES Fog risk uses your local time zone instead of a fixed offset. Radar maps no longer plot the same monitoring station twice. Sharing a weather card, a day poster or a workout now reliably opens the share sheet on the screen you are using.

AusGuard 1.4.0 improves live transit information: - Stops not yet covered by a real-time arrival feed are now clearly labelled instead of appearing empty. - The commute dashboard shows feed status per stop and weather advisories in your app language. - Fewer redundant network requests and smarter caching load transit screens faster.

What’s New in 1.3.9 • Live train and bus arrivals are back for Brisbane and the rest of South East Queensland. • Transit screens now clearly say when a network does not offer live arrival data, instead of showing an empty departures list. • Fixed the App Store link used when sharing weather safety cards. • Clearer messaging about AI assistant usage limits. • Reliability improvements to alert and transport data fetching.

What’s New in 1.3.8 • Added an Australian Elections hub with official federal election status, the 2026 Victorian election timeline, voting options, eligibility and ballot guidance. • Improved Chinese and English localisation across election and lightning screens. • Improved source transparency and lightning forecast handling, so unavailable data is never shown as no risk. • Reliability and performance improvements.

New Risk Day banner surfaces the biggest hazard of today at the top of Home, and safety score factors are now tappable. Build and share a clean weather-and-risk poster for any day from the day detail screen. Tools is reorganised into topic hubs, live alerts open first, and laundry and car-wash planners now warn about heavy rain and heat. Missing data is shown honestly as unavailable instead of guessed, plus stability improvements.

Fixed bugs and improved stability.

Fixed bugs and improved stability.

Fixed bugs and improved stability.

Welcome to AusGuard 1.3, your all-in-one Australian weather and safety app. AI CHAT WITH STREAMING The AI assistant now uses true streaming. Answers appear word by word in real time. The floating AI button is available on every tab. Multiple AI channels run in parallel for the fastest response. NEW AUSALERT TAB Your emergency hub is now the first tab. Guides for bushfires, floods, cyclones, heatwaves, storms, earthquakes, and coastal hazards. Live Activity and Dynamic Island support. AGGREGATED DASHBOARD Weather, air quality, minute rain, bushfire, flood, warnings, and fire danger in a single request. Faster loading, less data usage. EXPANDED AI SUITE Morning briefings, daily activity planner, safety risk score, hyperlocal reports, and route weather for road trips. ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES Unlock badges, complete weekly safety challenges, and track your footprint across Australia. PERSONALIZATION Choose your accent colour, pick app icons, and switch between English and Chinese. WEATHER AND SAFETY Minute rain predictions, 7-day forecasts, UV timeline. Live bushfire tracking across five states. Flood warnings across all eight states. Cyclone and earthquake data. BEACH AND TRAVEL Surf forecasts, tide times, shark data from WA, NSW, and QLD networks. Transit alerts, road closures, fuel prices, and parking. Widgets in three sizes. Lock Screen widgets. Live Activities with Dynamic Island. AusGuard is free with no ads. Optional Pro unlocks AI tools. No account required. Privacy protected. Made with care in Australia for Australians.

Fixed bugs and improved stability.

• New: Real-time fuel price comparison across NSW, VIC & QLD • New: UV index timeline with sun protection reminders • Improved: Bushfire alerts now include QLD, WA, SA & ACT • Fixed: Radar animation loading speed

Fixed bugs and improved stability.

Fixed bugs and improved stability.

Fixed bugs and improved stability.

Fixed bugs and improved stability.

Fixed bugs and improved stability.