BRYKK Guide · The Family Page

The Family Page

The Family page is BRYKK's home screen. Each person is a small living scene of where they are, with the time and the weather there. There is no map: the page tells you in words, and is honest when a location is old.

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Your family
Check in
Everyone's okay · Mom is driving
You pick up Ava · 7:00
At the gym · leave by 6:45
Mom's car on a city street, filmed from behind
Live · 34 mph
Mom is driving
Tap to follow
31
min
Your house at dusk
At home · 1 hr
You
Since 5:12 PM
The gym at dusk
Gym · until 7
Ava
Since 4:30 PM
G
Grandma
Last seen at her home · 2 hr ago
Ask
SOS · hold
FamilyTodayMessages
A busy evening on the Family page · fictional family
The Family page replaced the map on the Family tab in iPhone build 4.15.113. Prefer the map? Turn on Classic map in Settings. Android still shows the map for now; the Family page comes to Android after iPhone.

What's on top

The page always sorts itself the same way, so the most important thing is first:

  1. SOS or a crash takes over the whole page.
  2. Anyone driving or on the move gets a live card that rides along: the road, their speed and when they'll get there.
  3. Coming up for you, from the family calendar, for the next three hours, written from your side (“You pick up Ava · 7:00”). The calendar and leave-by times are part of BRYKK Life.
  4. Something new since you last looked, tagged NEW · 8:02. The scene plays the arrival once.
  5. Everyone settled, grouped by place, Home first. People in the same place share one scene with everyone's name on it.
  6. Old locations and problems, as quiet rows at the bottom.
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Cards never jump while your finger is on the page. Changes slide in gently.

Reading a card

  • The scene is the real kind of place (home, school, gym, store, a street), at the time and in the weather there, moving gently.
  • One chip says the state: LIVE, AT HOME · 2 HR, STOPPED 4 MIN, TOGETHER or LAST SEEN 1 HR AGO.
  • One line in plain words. BRYKK uses names, never pronouns, and your own card says “You”.
  • Battery shows only under 20%. Speed shows only while driving.

Touch

1

Tap a card

Opens that person's page. Tap a driving card to ride along (Follow mode).
2

Hold a card

Quick actions: Message, Call, Ask for a fresh location (quietly asks their phone, about 10 seconds), Exact spot and their alerts.
3

Pull down

Asks everyone for a fresh location and says what came back, for example “3 of 4 updated”.
4

Check in

The button at the top: tell the family you're OK, share a trip, or say where you're headed.

Honest when it's quiet

An old location never pretends to be live:

  • Live means the location is under 2 minutes old.
  • Up to 30 minutes, the card says how old it is: “updated 6 min ago”.
  • After that the scene fades and says when and where they were last seen, names the likely reason when the phone tells us (off, no signal, a setting), and offers Ask.
  • BRYKK never says “At Work” while someone is driving, and never guesses a road.
  • A private place shows to others as “Out”, never by name.
If someone's phone is set to share location only While Using, their card says their location only updates when BRYKK is open, with a button to send them the steps. Ask them to set BRYKK's location access to Always in iPhone Settings.

SOS or a crash takes over

An emergency replaces the scenes. The card shows where they are in plain words, how accurate and how fresh that is, a big Call, Navigate (Apple or Google Maps), I'm on my way (tells them and the family), and Call 911. A detected crash uses the same card. It stays until they or you mark them safe; everyone else shrinks to one line each. See SOS & Impact Detection.

No map, still safe

The tabs are Family · Today · Messages, and the SOS button sits just above them on every Family page; hold it to send. When you need the precise location, hold a card and choose Exact spot: the place name and address in words, then Navigate hands off to your maps app.