NomadMates
Travel mates and meetups
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What's New in NomadMates
1.7.0
September 10, 2026
Fixed a crash when reopening the app. - If the app opened and then shut itself straight away, sometimes several times before it would stay up, that is fixed. It was in the background location feature and it affected anyone who had it switched on. - Turning on background updates also stopped asking twice. It used to send you to Settings to allow location Always right after you had just allowed it Always. New: photo circles. - A shared album. Everyone in the circle can add photos and everyone can see them, so the pictures from a trip end up in one place instead of four camera rolls and a group chat. - Groups in a network get one when an admin turns it on. It appears in your Travel tab and in the group chat, and it goes when you leave the group. - Some network circles ask you to agree that the network can use your photos. You are asked once, in plain words, and only photos you post afterwards are covered. Saying no is fine and costs you nothing else in the app. - Starting your own circle is a Mates+ feature. Being in one never is. Networks can run events. - A network or one of its groups can post an event with a photo, a price, a place and tickets. It shows up for the whole network, or just for the group, whichever the organiser chose. - Events can repeat. A weekly pub quiz is set up once rather than reposted every week. - The What is on page lists everything a network has coming up, its own and every group's, with a photo, a price and who is going. It is on the About page beside Groups. The app opens without a connection. - It used to sit on the loading screen until it found one, which is exactly the moment you need it: landed, no data, trying to reach a meeting point. It opens now whatever the signal is doing, and fills in what it can once there is some. - Your recent chats are kept on the phone, so a room you had open is still readable with no data. - So is where your mates were, for a day, with a note of how long ago if it is more than a few minutes old. It says what it knows and when it knew it, rather than showing you a stale dot as if it were live. - The meeting point card carries readable coordinates and opens in Maps, so the address survives losing signal on the way there. Smaller things. - Notifications now ask properly on iPhone. Most people were never actually asked because the prompt was being spent before it reached the screen, which is also why some of you have had none at all. If you were missed, you will be asked next time you do something that would notify someone. - Invite-only groups no longer show up in a network's group list for people who cannot join them. Admins and moderators still see them.
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