Jorts — Plans With Friends

Make the plan now, invite whoever later. A plan no longer needs a guest list to exist. Put the plan on your week — the gym, a flight, a dinner you haven't asked anyone to yet — and add people when you know who. Making a plan and inviting to it are two separate steps now, so the screen where you write it has one button on it instead of asking who before you've decided what. Drag it down the day to pick the hour. Hold the block and slide it to the time you mean, and say how long it runs instead of leaving us to guess. The hour you land on is the hour the plan gets. The week says the time without being asked. Hours run across the week now, not only down the left margin, so where a plan sits on the strip is a time you can read. In the month, hold any day and it tells you what its dots are. One way to add people, in the same place every time. Your friends now sit in the same door as the link and the QR code — tap a face to add them. And the button that opens it is in one spot on every screen that has one, instead of hiding in a "···" menu on some of them. The invite you designed is the message. Design a card for a plan and that card is what arrives in the group text: the whole picture, top to bottom, instead of a small one floating in a frame. Everything you typed is on it, and it still opens the plan in one tap. The map works the whole time it is showing. If a plan's map is on screen it is live — for the full window, on every phone in the plan, and from the first moment instead of after the first satellite fix. Saying no to location is no longer final either: turn it on in Settings and the map notices when you come back. A notification that arrives while you are in the app comes down from the top. A banner you can ignore, rather than an alert that stops what you were doing. Plus: half as much network traffic while a plan is running, a photo in the chat you could not open before, the report sheet keeping its head above the keyboard, and a plan can no longer arrive from nobody.