Notifications reach your phone, and Locations gets a real map
Reminders and message alerts were reaching almost nobody's phone, because most people were never asked to allow them. Sign in and you'll be asked once now, on iPhone and Android, and saying yes is what turns them on. Locations also trades its still picture for a map you can drag and pinch, on Android and the desktop.
What this build does
iPhone asks once, right after sign-in. The system prompt for notifications used to live only in Settings, several taps deep, so a person who never went looking was never asked and never got a token to send anything to. Signing in now shows that prompt directly. Once you answer, iPhone does not ask again, and allowing it is what lets reminders and messages reach you.
Android registers whenever notifications are allowed. Registration used to wait on an in-app setting that sign-out quietly cleared, so even a phone that already allowed notifications never sent its token. Signing in now registers it directly, and on Android 13 and up, you're asked to allow notifications once per install if you haven't already.
Said no earlier? Turn notifications on for Ridgeback in your phone's Settings, then sign in again.
Locations draws a real map on Android and the desktop. Where it used to show a still picture, it now draws a live map you can drag, pinch and tap, the same way iPhone's already does. A pin carries each person's initial, and the map frames everyone or zooms to whoever you tap. The still picture remains as a fallback if the map can't draw.
Get the build
iPhone builds arrive through TestFlight. Android, macOS and Linux downloads are on the home page.