Send a flare when you're around

A flare is a quick, expiring way to say you're around, without spinning up a whole event. Tap the flame in your home header, fill in as little or as much as you like, and it goes out to your people. It expires on its own, so there's nothing to clean up.

Three kinds, no menu

You never pick a type. It's shaped by what you fill in:

• Name a spot and it's a Pull up: I'm here, come to me.
• Say what's the move and it's a Down to: up for catching the late movie, say.
• Fill in nothing and it's an Around: just free to hang.

Choose who sees it: your whole Orbit, or one cluster. Scoping it to a cluster is also how you keep a spot tight, since only that group sees the pin.

Seeing and answering flares

When your people are out, they show up in Who's around on your home page, with a flame on their avatar around the app and, for a Pull up, a dot on the Explore map. Answer in one tap:

• On my way, for a Pull up you're heading to.
• Me too, to pile onto a Down to.
• Ping, a quick poke that works on any flare (and it's the one reply on an Around).