You can now be in more than one group at once — a family group and a wider group of friends, say. Tap the group name at the top to switch between them, or to add a new one. Messages, photos and locations stay in the group they were sent to, so nothing crosses over. Joining a group is a link now, so there's no code to type.

Quieter, and easier to get your family onto. Far fewer notifications. CruiseLink used to tell you every day that a message hadn't reached someone. It now says it once, then leaves you alone. "Not seen since Friday." A person's card now tells you when their phone was last reached, which is the thing actually worth knowing when someone has gone quiet. Better at re-finding people. Phones that have met each other once now reconnect far more reliably as you move around a ship. Invite links come from cruiselink.app, so what you send your family looks like a proper address. And if nobody has joined your group after a day, the app says so plainly and offers to send the invite again — invite links get buried in messages more often than you would think.

A large update since the first release. Looking for someone: start a search and every phone in your group joins in, so whoever is nearest finds them. They get one button to say they're here, which ends the search for everyone. Much faster, and much steadier. Long conversations no longer slow the app down, phones stop carrying old history around, and a phone that gets stuck now stops itself and tells you why. Far fewer notifications, and better ones. The app tells you when Bluetooth is switched off, which is the one thing you can fix in a tap, and it stays quiet when messages are getting through. Android and iPhone now reach each other properly, and "Is it working?" gives you a straight answer instead of a green tick it isn't sure about.