Private beta setup

Get your family on BRYKKwithout fumbling through beta nonsense.

Install TestFlight, open BRYKK, allow the right permissions, and get your people joined. This page is the clean path for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

2 minutes
from install to family code
Zero
BRYKK servers involved
Free
during current TestFlight rollout
Apple-first
iPhone, iPad, Watch
What you need first
An iPhone or iPad signed into your Apple ID
Apple TestFlight installed from the App Store
A family code if you are joining someone else's BRYKK
Permission to allow Always Location, Notifications, and Motion
Your location does not route through BRYKK servers. The architecture is device + iCloud, not surveillance backend + ad-tech.
Install

The cleanest path if you are new to BRYKK.

This is the route most people need. Install Apple's beta app once, install BRYKK through it, then finish your family setup inside the app.

1

Install TestFlight first

TestFlight is Apple's official beta app. BRYKK uses it until the App Store launch. If you tap the BRYKK link before installing TestFlight, Apple will throw you into an invitation dead-end.

Look for Apple's blue propeller icon in the App Store.
Install TestFlight first
2

Install BRYKK through TestFlight

Once TestFlight is on your device, open the BRYKK beta link. TestFlight will show the install screen immediately. Tap Install, then Open.

Install BRYKK through TestFlight
3

Set your name and choose your avatar

BRYKK is fast to read when your family feels recognizable at a glance. Pick the name and emoji your people will actually understand instantly.

Set your name and choose your avatar
4

Allow the permissions that make BRYKK work

Always Location, Notifications, and Motion are not optional if you want arrivals, departures, crash detection, and real trip awareness to work properly. Microphone, Calendar, and Health are feature-based extras.

Location
Needed for background family visibility, saved places, SOS, and crash context.
Notifications
Needed for arrivals, departures, SOS, crash alerts, and chat.
Motion
Needed for drive detection and safer crash logic.
Microphone
Needed for push-to-talk and translation.
Health
Optional. Reads your Medical ID for emergency context.
Calendar
Optional. Powers smarter departure countdowns.
Join

If your family already has BRYKK, use their code and be done.

You do not need to overthink this part. Once BRYKK is installed, the person who already runs the family can give you the code and you will appear on the map.

1

Open BRYKK and choose Join Family

If someone in your house already has BRYKK working, do not create a second family. Choose Join Family and use their code.

2

Enter the 6-character family code

That code lives inside BRYKK → Settings → Family on the family organizer's phone. Enter it once and your setup is effectively finished.

Treat the code like a private household key. Only share it with the people you want on your family map.
Enter the 6-character family code
3

Add your places before you forget

Home is table stakes. After that, add the places that actually matter in your real life: school, Nana's, work, daycare, the second house, the field, the gym.

Invite

If Nathan invited you by email, use Apple's invite path.

Some people come in through a direct TestFlight invitation instead of the public link. The result is the same once BRYKK is installed.

Direct invite flow
1

Install TestFlight if you do not already have it.

2

Open the email from Apple that says you were invited to test BRYKK.

3

Tap View in TestFlight, then install BRYKK.

4

Finish the same in-app profile and family setup as everyone else.

BRYKK TestFlight invite

If the icon in the invite email looks older than the website, ignore it. The live beta has already had branding updates. It is still the right app.

Watch

Apple Watch comes along automatically.

You do not need a second install flow for Apple Watch. Once BRYKK is on your iPhone, the Watch app comes with it on a paired device.

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Apple Watch setup

Install BRYKK on iPhone through TestFlight.

Wait for the Watch app to sync to your paired watch.

Open BRYKK on your wrist and verify you can see family status and emergency entry points.

Apple TV is being redesigned right now, so it is intentionally not part of the public setup flow yet.
BRYKK on Apple Watch
FAQ

The answers people usually need before they stop overthinking it.

Keep this page handy when you are getting a whole family installed. Most problems are one of the few below.

Next

Install it. Get your people in. Then read the family guide.

The setup gets BRYKK on the device. The guide is where your family learns what saved places, shared trips, arrivals, departures, crash detection, and Live Activities actually mean day to day.