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A real app on your iPhone, and goals that count by the week
The first version that's on testers' iPhones as an app, through TestFlight. A lot got rebuilt for it: your goals count by the week or the month instead of by the day, you play your jokers yourself, and the app keeps working when you have no signal.
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GroepsDruk is available as an app in TestFlight, Apple's channel for apps that are still being tested. Create an account in Safari on your iPhone and the app then shows you the way there. The app is made for the iPhone; on an iPad it runs as an iPhone app.
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Log in and sign up with your Apple account, in the app and on the website. Already have an account? You'll land in it as long as you let Apple share your email address. The login screen now asks first: Apple or email.
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Your goals count by the week or the month instead of by the day. Your streak runs in weeks or months, and your score looks at the periods that are finished. Everyone started with a clean slate at the switch; your old check-ins simply stay in your calendar.
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For a new goal you choose week or month, and a start and end date if you like. The start date can be in the future too: I'm starting in two weeks. An i button explains how periods, score, streak and jokers work.
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Goals with no target, just for fun: you take part without a score or a streak. They sit at the bottom under a heading of their own, and if you want to give one a target later, you can do that under Edit goals.
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Under each goal on your dashboard, one line tells you how you're doing, like "2/7 this week", and whether the week can still be saved. Score and streak sit at the top, with a flame that grows with your level. Tap it and you see the whole ladder, with your rung lit up.
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You save up jokers with your check-ins and play them afterwards. Missed a week or a month? The goal tells you how many jokers will still fix it and how long you have left. Confirm once and you go straight on to checking in.
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The automatic joker is gone. With daily goals it burned one joker after another, day after day, without saving anything, and it posted a note in your name.
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Pause: put your goals on hold for a while. Those days don't count and don't break your streak. You'll find it under Settings > Account and personal details and under the three dots on your profile, together with the time zone your goals run on.
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You can check in on the same goal more than once a day. A day still counts once, but that second workout no longer has to wait.
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Rejecting now has consequences. If enough friends reject a check-in, it no longer counts and friends no longer see it. If the tally changes back, it returns.
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Your profile shows a chart per goal of your periods: made, missed or skipped. And in Messages you can see which friends are falling behind with a week that can still be saved, so you know who could use a nudge.
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No signal? In the app on your iPhone you just carry on. It opens with the last known state of your goals, a little light at the top tells you you're offline, and you make a check-in as usual: it waits on your phone and goes out by itself as soon as there's a connection again. Until then there's a small clock on the goal, because it only counts once it's in.
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The chat works without signal too. You can read the latest messages stored on your phone, and whatever you send, a photo or video included, gets a small clock and goes out by itself once you're back online.
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Without a connection the app says "no connection" instead of "Load failed" or "something went wrong". Your friends list, your notifications and your details no longer show an empty list or zeros as if that were the real state, and votes and reactions on stories no longer get lost without a word.
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The chat reads like a chat: time and ticks inside the bubble, messages sent close together as one block, one date heading per day and a button to jump to the bottom. New messages slide in and your reaction gives a little bounce, unless you have "reduce motion" switched on. In the dark theme your own messages are no longer bright orange.
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In long conversations you couldn't see your newest messages. The chat now opens at the latest message and loads older ones as you scroll up.
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Typing in the chat on your iPhone feels like a real app. The keyboard stays open after sending, the text box moves up together with the keyboard and grows up to five lines, and the grey bar with arrows and "Done" is gone.
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You can now also send a moment from your gallery in a conversation. Pinning to your profile works straight from your gallery, without opening the photo first, and you can swap a pinned moment for another one right away.
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The bar at the top is the same on every tab, so you can invite friends from anywhere. Swipe between tabs and the orange in the bottom bar follows your finger. And the opening animation only plays after you log in, so you get to the check-in button sooner.
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You delete your account yourself in the app, under Settings > Account and personal details; until now you had to send an email for that. It becomes invisible straight away, and within the cooling-off period you restore it with one button. How long that lasts and what goes after it is in the privacy policy. The settings menu got tidied up along the way, from eight rows to six.
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When you sign up you now also fill in your first and last name, so friends can find you by your real name. And after the link in your confirmation email you see a screen saying it worked, even if your mail app had already opened that link beforehand.
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Share a profile, yours or someone else's, through the three dots. A link like that, an invite link and the link in your confirmation email now open the app on your iPhone instead of Safari.
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You get a notification when someone accepts your friend request. And tapping a notification about a request takes you straight to where you accept it.
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On the iPhone no notification appeared while the app was open, which made it look as if notifications sometimes didn't arrive. And after logging out or switching accounts things could stay quiet for a while without you noticing; now they come in again straight away.
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The house rules and terms are on groepsdr.uk as version 1, which is why the app asks everyone to agree once more. If you use the app in English, German or French, those links open the English version.
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