Schools and home values, on the Nearby map. Schools: official school data for England, Wales, Northern Ireland, 26 US cities, Toronto, Vancouver and Mexico City. Pin colours show the stage, never a rating. A school's details show its inspection report or rating where the publisher allows reuse. Home values: official median sale prices or owners' estimates by area, with the source and period on every figure. There are no figures for Mexico City. School and home-value data is built into the app. Arrival now works. When the app detects you've arrived, sharing stops and your contact's page says you've arrived. Earlier versions never told your contact that you had arrived. Street Feel is still not asked. Our 1.3.2 notes said SafeRoute asks one question when you arrive. No version has asked it, and 1.4 does not either. In HELP (FIND HELP on Apple Watch), GO now keeps your shared walk going, shows your contact which place you're heading to, and routes you from where you are. HELP now lists only places near where you are: earlier versions could show places looked up before for somewhere else. Its emergency call button now asks before it dials. The sharing screen now says exactly what is shared and for how long, and, while you navigate, SafeRoute tells you when a link reaches its 4-hour limit. During a walk, Apple Watch and the Live Activity now show the distance to the next turn and the distance left the same way as the navigation banner on your iPhone. Earlier versions always showed them in yards and miles. On the Live tab, VoiceOver can now reach the street cameras and 911 calls on the map, up to 30 of each, nearest the centre first, and open them. With Reduce Motion on, the calls no longer pulse and the cards no longer slide in. The analytics switch in About is now called Usage analytics. It was called Anonymous analytics, but the signals carry an identifier for each installation, so that name was wrong. A new Mapbox map data switch keeps your choice. 1.4 turns Mapbox's telemetry off once, the first time it starts, including after an update; versions 1.0.2 to 1.3.8 turned Mapbox's telemetry off again at every launch. Mapbox's Report button and "Rate your trip" screen are gone from navigation. Correction: our earlier listing text said 911 calls are never part of your safety score. In New Orleans, which publishes no crime reports with locations, the score uses its 911 calls for crimes; About now says so. Also: clearer "no data" messages on routes and the heatmap, a fix for the first location prompt, updated data credits in About, and Spanish throughout, including the widgets and Apple Watch. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

The emergency button now offers the right number near the UK. On the French coast, in Ireland and at sea, SafeRoute offered 999, which is not the number there. It now offers 112. Your Apple Watch's emergency button now shows your local number too (999, 911 or 112); it used to read 999 everywhere. Everywhere in the UK, including Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man, stays on 999. Area alerts now actually reach you. If SafeRoute had been closed in the background, a heads-up could be triggered and never shown, and it then held back the next ones. Fixed, and alerts now watch more of the blocks around you that run well above the local average. Where we have no crime data, the Home Screen widget no longer shows a made-up "100, Low risk": it says so instead. The Large widget fits its space again. And in Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man the app no longer calls missing data a brief outage. We also send less about where you are: the widget and background checks now share an approximate area rather than your exact position, and the permission text says exactly what is sent. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

Spanish catches up. The "No data yet" marker on search results and the honest "not covered" screen both shipped last time in English only — so Spanish speakers, including everyone in Mexico City, read English at exactly the moment the app was explaining its own limits. They are translated now. The home screen widget also identifies itself when it fetches data, so we can finally tell whether it is used at all. It is a label on a request the widget already made, and nothing new is collected about you. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

Search now tells you where we have data. If you search somewhere we don't hold crime data yet, the result says so before you tap it — instead of opening a screen that blamed a temporary outage and offered a "Try again" that could never work. Coverage is the UK, 26 US cities, Toronto, Vancouver and Mexico City. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

This update changes nothing you can see. Apple asks every app to ship a small file describing which system features it uses and why. Ours was incomplete, so we corrected it — and we removed some stray development files that had been packaged into the app by mistake. Same routes, same scores, same coverage, and nothing new collected. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

Fixed: on UK phones, pressing Start Navigation could close the app on the spot. That was our bug, it has been there since the last update, and it is gone. Safety alerts now follow you. They used to watch only the streets around wherever you last opened SafeRoute, so walking somewhere new meant walking past them. They now re-arm as you move, covering about 3 km around where the app was last open. Still opt-in, still watched by iOS on your phone, with nothing sent anywhere. Alerts also tell you when they cannot reach you. If notifications are switched off, or location is not set to Always, the Nearby screen now says so and takes you to the setting rather than staying quiet. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

Fewer steps between you and a safer walk. Planning a route asked for more than it needed to. The routes you asked for now appear the moment they are found, and Start Navigation sits with them rather than below the breakdown. If SafeRoute already has your location, the starting point fills itself in. And searching for a place no longer offers you the same place five times over. Alerts have moved somewhere you can actually find them — under the safety score for the area you just looked up, instead of behind an icon in the corner. They will tell you when police are called somewhere near an area you care about, and stay quiet unless something is genuinely unusual for the time of day. SafeRoute also works in landscape now.

Tell us how the walk felt. When you arrive, SafeRoute now asks one question: did that walk feel fine, or uneasy somewhere? Both answers help. It is anonymous, it is about the street rather than about people, and the start and end of your walk are never included. Nothing is shown back yet — a street needs several people to agree before it means anything. The Live map now follows you. Pan it and the calls and cameras update for wherever you have moved, instead of staying where you started. Camera pins look like cameras now, rather than another blue dot. Fixed: safety alerts could be switched on while iOS was quietly blocking them, with nothing to tell you. SafeRoute now says so, and takes you to the setting. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

Alerts worth pulling down. Safety alerts used to be a single line of text. Now they tell you where they fired ("Near 6th St · Mid-Market"), how unusual the area is ("about 6x the local average"), and they draw the block on a map when you pull one down. Two buttons: open the area, or go quiet until midnight. The Live tab now shows street cameras and 911 calls on the same map. If your city has both, you no longer get only one of them. More Live cities since the last update: Cleveland and Minneapolis join New Orleans and San Francisco. Fixed: the Apple Watch could say "Connecting…" while it was in fact talking to your phone. And on iPad, a couple of cards stretched the full width of the screen instead of sitting at a sensible size. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

The Live update. NEW — Live tab: a 3D night map of the last 24 hours. See the 911 calls police actually responded to in New Orleans and San Francisco (near real-time), shown as embers that burn brighter the fresher they are. Tap one for what was reported. Dispatch calls, honestly labelled — never confirmed crimes, and never part of your safety scores. NEW — Live street cameras: in London, 900+ TfL JamCams with short video clips refreshed about every 2 minutes; in New York, street-level cameras at major intersections across the city; on the Las Vegas Strip and Fremont Street; and in Toronto and Vancouver. Tap a camera for its latest view. Powered by TfL Open Data; 511NY / NYSDOT; Nevada DOT; Open Government Licence – Toronto; City of Vancouver. NEW — Optional alerts, off by default: a quiet heads-up if you walk into a block where reported incidents run well above the local average, and (in San Francisco and New Orleans) an occasional background check for serious 911 calls within a few blocks. Everything runs on your phone — your location is never sent to our servers. Every safety count now states its time window (for example "7 months to Aug 2026"), because data spans differ by city. Plus: pull-to-refresh in Nearby is fixed, and the camera viewer's close button works everywhere.

SafeRoute now runs on iOS 16.4 and later. Previously the app required the very latest version of iOS, which left a lot of iPhones unable to install it — including plenty that are only a release or two behind. That's fixed: if your iPhone runs iOS 16.4 or newer, SafeRoute will run on it. Nothing else has changed. Same crime-aware routing, same coverage across the UK, 26 US cities, Toronto, Vancouver and Mexico City. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

- Browse whole neighbourhoods on the web. About now links to our free neighbourhood safety index — over 1,000 areas across nine cities, scored from the same data as the app, and shareable with anyone. - Better VoiceOver in Spanish. Dozens of spoken labels that were still read out in English on Spanish-language devices are now translated. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

- Your safer route is now the route you walk. When you choose a lower-risk route, turn-by-turn navigation follows that exact path — not the default one. - Redesigned Home Screen & Lock Screen widget. The safety score is clearly labelled out of 100, every size names the area it covers, and the time-of-day charts are easier to read. - Works offline. Your last area-safety read and nearby help stay available with no signal. - Faster. Routes and your location load noticeably quicker. - Search examples are now local to you — the suggested places are from your own city. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

NOW IN 4 COUNTRIES SafeRoute has gone international. - 19 more US cities — Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, Dallas, Detroit, Baltimore, Houston, Las Vegas, New Orleans and more — each powered by its city's official open crime data. That's 26 US cities in total. - Canada — Toronto and Vancouver. - Mexico City — our first region beyond the English-speaking world. - Español — the app is now fully localized in Spanish (on Spanish-language devices). As always, SafeRoute adapts automatically: the right crime-data source, emergency number (999 in the UK, 911 across the US, Canada & Mexico), safe places, and place search for wherever you are. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

This release focuses on reliability: - "Use current location" no longer occasionally fails with "Could not get a location fix" — it now uses the location already on hand, so setting your start point is faster and more dependable. - The Area Safety widget's crime heatmap no longer occasionally fails to load. - Behind-the-scenes performance and stability improvements. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

SIX MORE US CITIES + NIGHT-SAFETY SafeRoute now covers seven US cities — New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. — each powered by its city's official open crime data, plus the whole United Kingdom. New night-safety features for the walk home: - Right Now — a safety read that factors the current time of day. - Tap any hexagon on the crime heatmap for its own breakdown. - Street lighting — see how much of each route runs on lit vs dark streets (OpenStreetMap) and choose a brighter way home. As always, the app adapts automatically: the right crime-data source, emergency number (999 in the UK, 911 in the US), safe places, and place search for wherever you are. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

NEW YORK CITY IS HERE SafeRoute now works in New York City — the same crime-aware routing, Nearby safety check, heatmaps, and safe-space finder, powered by NYPD complaint data (NYC Open Data). The app adapts automatically to where you are: - Your local emergency number (999 in the UK, 911 in the US). - The right crime-data source and safe places for your region. - Region-aware place search. Plus everything from our latest UK update: the Nearby tab, Area Safety widget, full Dark Mode, and accessibility improvements throughout. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

NEW - Nearby tab — open the app and instantly see how safe your area is: a safety score, a live crime heatmap, what's reported nearby, the safe spaces around you, and how risk shifts by time of day. Tap a safe space to route there. Search any area to check it before you go. No route required. - Area Safety widget — the same at-a-glance score on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. - Full Dark Mode. - Accessibility: Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and Reduce Motion support throughout. IMPROVED - Redesigned route planner with a live map and crime heatmap. - Faster place search, with your recent searches and a one-tap Home shortcut. - FIND HELP now reliably surfaces nearby 24-hour places. FIXED - The navigation Live Activity now clears correctly after you close the app. - Various performance and stability improvements. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.

NEW • Area Safety widget — see a crime-safety score for your current area right from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. • Full Dark Mode. • Accessibility: Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and Reduce Motion support throughout. IMPROVED • Faster place search, with your recent searches and a one-tap Home shortcut. • FIND HELP now reliably surfaces nearby 24-hour places. FIXED • The navigation Live Activity now clears correctly after you close the app. • Various performance and stability improvements. Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.