SafetyGrid 1.17 will soon be available on the App store!
SafetyGrid version 1.17 brings brand new features! Our New Quick Check in feature simplifies sending a quick update to just your contacts. While most social media sites provide this feature, many people are concerned (and rightly so) about sharing their locations with such a wide audience as a social media site. The SafetyGrid checkin feature only goes to your contacts. Simple as that! You can send a checkin, with or without your location as well!
The checkin feature can also be requested by your contacts. If you have push notifications enabled, you will get a request on your device and with as little as a press of a button, your reply can be sent!
SafetyGrid CheckIn
The Map on the new Check Ins screen now also supports smooth user tracking with standard follow and follow with heading. The navigation icon at the top right toggles between UserTracking On/Off and On with Heading enabled. You can now also freely pan about the map and zoom in and out (when user tracking is toggled off) to explore your surroundings.
Location Tracking on the Map View is only while being viewed. As with all location services, it’s dependent on the user accepting the use for location services in order to enable the service.
We will be offering more features on this screen in the next release which will include the option for “Geo Fencing”. There are numerous safety applications where features like this will really come in handy as I’m sure you can imagine. We’re REALLY excited about this. Plan for the next update to be out before the end of the year just in time for the Holidays!
Speaking of the Holidays, we recognize that SafetyGrid is often something you wish to provide as a gift along with monitored alarm services for your loved ones. We’ve eased the
SafetyGrid Setup Screen
setup features as well to enable a simple two step process for setup.
Upon initial launch of SafetyGrid, you will now be taken directly to the setup screen and prompted for which type of setup you require. When you select Received Gift, you will be be then prompted for a User Name and password and then SafetyGrid will setup your device from the network with all your initial settings preconfigured!
It’s really that simple! When you order once of the services online as a gift, the receiver will get an email letting them know (these can be scheduled of course for a date in the future) which will provide a link to download SafetyGrid and the ScreenShots of the two step setup process. Nothing could be simpler to help keep your loved ones safe!
We’ve also improved the contact screen. Now the names of setup contacts show on the main contact screen along with their Enabled or Disabled status. Furthermore the enabling
and disabling of Alerts no longer sends the canned emails to the contacts. They will now only be sent with new invites or removals.
Finally the contact details can now be changed both by the contact themselves (via their web login emailed to them at the initial invitation) as well as in the contact screen. The contact details screen will automatically update from the server upon view to get the most up to date information. This automatic update also occurs on the settings screen which is handy for those of you who have more that one iOS device.
Separate Contact lists are still provided on each device so you can maintain different people in each contact list.
One last change is how we manage test alarms. You will not be decremented on your alarm credits anymore for SMS Text messages. As such we’ve changed the main screen in Test
Enabling and Disabling Voice Alerts for Test Alarms
mode to toggle only Voice Alerts on and Off (Actual Alarms can not have voice alerts disabled and so that switch is not visible when test mode is off.) Previously this switch was labeled SMS/Voice. Of course if you’re testing and you don’t want to bother a contact, you can use the improved disable alerts switch on the contact details screen. This will disable both SMS Text and Voice Calls for test AND actual alarms however so do keep this in mind.
Well that’s it for a quick sneak peak of the latest features coming your way in the next FREE update on the App Store! We expect to see the new version on the App Store in the next 2 weeks. (Maybe sooner! so watch that App Store Updates Badge!) Of course we’ll make the announcement here, on Twitter and Facebook and your email list. This site is also available via and RSS Feed. Check the top right of the site for links to these and more!
As always we welcome your feedback on what you’d like to see on future versions SafetyGrid. We have a few exciting ideas ourselves that we can’t wait to share for the next release! We’re about to knock your socks off! So stay tuned! And yes, Android users, your time will be coming Soon as well as Blackberry! We’re hard at work here to help make SafetyGrid the worlds best mobile alert solution.
Regards,
Jim Hankins
President / Founder
SafetyGrid