Coming Home Alerts — BRYKK Guide

The signature BRYKK feature. A special alert with a unique chime fires when a family member starts a trip toward the saved place YOU are at right now — and you can write a personal welcome message they'll see, not a generic ping.

Why this matters

A shared destination adds context to a drive. Heading home describes a trip someone shared, not a guess about where every drive will end.

When a family member taps “Going Home” in BRYKK, everyone currently at Homegets a special alert with a different sound and the custom welcome message they wrote. People who aren't at Home get the regular “Sarah is on the way to Home” notification — same as before. So the alert reaches the right people, and only the right people.

Setting your custom message

Open the saved place

Settings → Family → Places & Trips → tap your “Home” (or any place you want a custom message for).

Scroll to 'Coming Home Message'

You'll see an optional text field with the placeholder “e.g. Coming home to you 💕.” Type whatever you want — emojis welcome.

Pick your audience

As soon as you start typing, a recipient picker appears below: Show this message towith checkboxes for each family member. By default it shows everyone. Uncheck whoever you don't want seeing this particular message — kids, in-laws, roommates, your boss.

Save

Hit Save. Done. Next time you tap “Going Home” from the map, only the people you picked will see the custom message — everyone else gets the friendly default.

💡

Different places, different messages. Set “Coming home to you 💕” on Home, “Heading to clock in 💼” on Work, “On my way to pick you up 🚗” on School. Each has its own audience.

Setting your 'Almost There' threshold

The receiver picks how much warning they want before arrival. Settings → Notifications → Location → Almost There Alert. Choose the lead time that fits your household.

Mom needs 15 minutes to start dinner. Dad only needs 3 to wrap up a call. Each device picks its own — they don't have to match.

Kid-friendly mode

Custom messages can get personal. To keep them off kids' devices entirely:

Pick up the kid's iPhone or iPad
Open BRYKK → Settings → Notifications → Location
Toggle Show Custom Messages OFF

Now the kid's device shows the friendly default (“Mom is coming home — about 18 min”) instead of the custom message — even if Mom forgot to exclude them in the recipient picker.

Two layers protect kid devices here: the sender chooses the audience, and the receiver can hide custom messages completely. That keeps the family-safe version in front by default.

What it sounds like

The Coming Home Alert plays the BRYKK arrival chime instead of the default notification sound. It's the same warm two-tone chime that plays when a family member arrives. So even before you read the notification, your ear knows: somebody's coming home.

What it looks like

Example notification wording:

Heading home (with custom message): “🏡 Sarah is on their way to you” / “Picking up dinner on the way home 🍕 · 12 min”
Heading home (no custom message): “🏡 Sarah is on their way to you” / “Sarah is coming home — about 18 min”
Almost there (5 min out): “Sarah is almost there!” / “About 5 min from Home”
Arrived: “Sarah made it safely” / “Arrived at Home”