The Log’s tools menu stays open while detections stream in. Opening Log tools > Category while your beacon was sending detections could close the category list on every refresh. It now stays open until you pick one. Hide details on lock screen: the lock-screen setting under Beacon has a new name and does more. While it is on, detection alerts say only that something was detected nearby, with no category or device name, and the home-screen widget shows “counts hidden”. Muting is quieter: muting a device, or removing it from your watchlist, also removes its alert from Notification Center. A place mute keeps that device’s alerts off while your phone can’t get a precise enough location to tell where you are. If a mute can’t be added, the app now says why. Your beacon’s sound stays the way you set it: connecting no longer turns a muted beacon’s sound back on by itself. More accurate pins: map pins, tracker breadcrumbs and the location sent to your beacon now use only a recent location accurate to 250 meters or better. Your saved history is safer: if the app ever finds a saved log it can’t open, it keeps that file aside and tells you, instead of starting over on top of it. Beacon firmware 2.2.1 is available from the Beacon tab. It includes a pairing security fix: a phone that forgets the beacon now pairs again the way a new phone does (turn the beacon off and on, then connect within two minutes). Vibrate and silent now also mute the startup and shutdown sounds, fewer devices are mislabeled as ALPR cameras or drones, and the offline buffer’s automatic erase counts only real power-ons. Update recommended. Help answers updated to match. Nothing is uploaded automatically, as always.

New in v2.2.0: Wi-Fi detections now show their channel and band. A detection's details gain a "Wi-Fi channel" row ("6 · 2.4 GHz", "149 · 5 GHz"), and Log CSV exports add wifi_channel and wifi_band_ghz as their last two columns, so an existing parser keeps working. The row appears with beacon firmware 2.2.0; older firmware does not send the channel. ESP32 C5 5GHz board is now supported: when the connected board has a 5 GHz radio, Beacon > Scan radios shows a "5 GHz Wi-Fi" switch with a note on what it costs the 2.4 GHz band. Today's boards listen on 2.4 GHz only, so they never show it. Your lists survive a locked-phone launch: starting the app from a lock-screen control while the phone was still locked could, in rare cases, open it with empty watch and ignore lists and an empty history, and the next save kept them empty. The app now waits for the phone to unlock before it reads them. Counts private on the wrist too: with counts set to private, the Live Mode view on Apple Watch and in CarPlay shows a lock instead of the number, like the lock-screen card. The Dynamic Island keeps showing counts. Beacon firmware 2.2.0 is available from the Beacon tab. It stamps every Wi-Fi detection with its channel; its drone address-block fallback now needs an access-point style broadcast, follows the drone detector switch, and is no longer forced on by desert mode, so probing phones and handheld cameras stop showing as drones; it adds DJI, SkyBell and Canary address blocks; and it closes a defect that could reopen the new-phone pairing window about 25 days after it closed. Update recommended. FAQ/Help answers updated to match. Nothing is uploaded automatically, as always.

Your beacon's sound stays as you set it: a phone that hasn't picked an alert mode yet, such as after a reinstall or on a second phone, no longer turns a muted beacon's sound back on when it connects. It shows the beacon's current setting until you pick a mode. Watch, everywhere: the per-device star is now called Watch throughout the app, and Stop Watching replaces Unstar on the Beacon tab. Clearer desert mode rows: a device that desert mode reports without a signature now reads "no signature" and "Not a match" in its details, so an ordinary nearby device never looks like a signature match. A smarter full log: when the log reaches 5,000 detections, ordinary nearby devices make room first and watched devices last, and a sudden flood of new detections is trimmed before your older ones. Beacon firmware 2.1.0 is available from the Beacon tab. With the Motorola Solutions switch on, it also matches WatchGuard Video's address block, and the app names it. Help answers updated to match. Nothing is uploaded automatically, as always.

beacons 2.1.0 is rebuilt on iOS's own controls, still dark, still crimson, with the radar, the motto and the mono readouts kept where they belong. Status: the radar shows what is nearby right now, with a count per category and the strongest signal on top. Map: the history control (active, recent, all) and the category chips float over a full-screen map. The legend sits behind a round info button, Map options and Center on my location float at the lower right, and a tapped pin opens its dossier in a half-height sheet on iPhone or a side panel on iPad. Log: active, new and all segments, search, a tools menu for sort, category, Offline Only, export and select, and rows grouped by when they were heard. Beacon: a Board segment for the beacon (detectors, alerts, radios, buffer, firmware, uptime and detections) and a This iPhone segment for notifications, Live Mode and the widget. After the first connection a short setup checklist replaces the old walkthrough. Connect: an OUI-Spy or Mesh-Detect board is called by its name, the screen says less, and the sample tour is three cards. Tap See How It Works to try the app with no hardware. Accessibility: larger text sizes, higher contrast, Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency are all respected, including on the map's floating controls.

Ready for iOS 27: beacons is now built with Apple's newest tools and tested on iOS 27. - Your beacon, remembered: once you pair, your beacon waits at the top of the connect screen, so reconnecting is one tap. No scan needed. - A cleaner Clear log: clearing the log now also deletes the app's temporary copies of past exports and removes its detection notifications. Temporary export copies also clear themselves after an hour. - Safer alerts: device names in notifications are cleaned up, so a nearby device can't disguise the text of an alert. - Easier to read at large text sizes, and a clearer home screen widget when nothing is nearby. - Plus second-radio update improvements, stability fixes, and nothing uploaded automatically, as always.

The Log now has a search box and a strongest-signal sort, tells you how much of the log you are looking at, and gains a filter for devices you starred. Exports carry exactly what the Log is showing. The Map opens on the last 15 minutes with one tap for all history, and the gear and layers menus become a single Map options sheet. Pins sit where your phone was when the signal was strongest, so a stale board fix no longer parks a whole drive in one spot. Status, the Beacon tab and detection dossiers are reorganized, and board readouts go quiet instead of showing stale numbers. Eleven new help answers, plus screen reader and large text fixes.

Ready for beacon 2.0.7: Higher contrast: brighter secondary text and clearer control edges. Follows your iOS contrast settings, or force it on under DISPLAY on the Beacon tab. Update your beacon from the Beacon tab with one tap. With network camera detection on, the new firmware recognizes more camera makers on WiFi (Blink, Night Owl, SkyBell, Ezviz, Uniview and more) and grades Flock signals more carefully, so a name-only match no longer claims more confidence than the evidence supports. Beacon updates now accept the new production signing key alongside the original key, so this update and every future one keeps installing on every beacon already out there. Update packages are still checked on your phone before anything is sent to the beacon. Demo mode mirrors the 2.0.7 beacon.