Unite: Your Local Community

Finding friends, made easier — and quieter. • Friends already on Unite. With your permission, Unite can check your address book for people who are already members, and keep checking every few days so a friend who joins later still finds you. Phone numbers only, compared and discarded — nothing is stored. Switch it off any time in Settings → Finding friends. • Better suggestions. People are ranked by the skills, interests and connections you share, including the people whoever invited you already knows. • One number. Connection requests, invitations and anything else waiting on you now add up to a single badge. Notifications you actually chose • You hear about someone's happenings only if you have switched their bell on. Connecting with a person no longer subscribes you to them. • Per-person, per-family and per-chat controls, all listed together in Settings so you can always find and undo them. • Quiet hours are respected, with a tidy catch-up of what came in overnight. More private by default • Anyone outside your own distance range is now described as "Far away" rather than a number, so an approximate distance only ever appears for people close enough to actually meet. • A secret family's chat — and any happening held inside one — is end-to-end encrypted between its members. Happenings, Offerings and chat • Book an offering for right now, and see the hours a facilitator is genuinely working. • Browse offerings straight from the map, with "from" prices on browse cards. • Say what you are enquiring about before you send the first message, and add a personal note when you invite someone. • Clear a conversation from your own list. For facilitators • Booking a session asks which date you want before it asks how you would like to pay. • A booking request now names the price, the meeting point and how far away it is, so you can answer it without leaving the notice. • Your payouts screen lists your own offerings, and confirming a booking updates the screen behind it. Also: larger, more readable type throughout, a faster first launch, a sign-in reliability fix, and a long list of map, layout and translation fixes.