Coming Home Alerts — BRYKK Guide

The signature BRYKK feature. A special alert with a unique chime fires when a family member starts a trip toward the saved place YOU are at right now — and you can write a personal welcome message they'll see, not a generic ping.

Why this matters

Find My pings you for every drive. Life360 pings you for every drive. BRYKK knows the difference between “they're running an errand” and “they're coming home to you specifically.”

When a family member taps “Going Home” in BRYKK, everyone currently at Homegets a special alert with a different sound and the custom welcome message they wrote. People who aren't at Home get the regular “Sarah is on the way to Home” notification — same as before. So the alert reaches the right people, and only the right people.

Setting your custom message

Open the saved place

Settings → Family → Places & Trips → tap your “Home” (or any place you want a custom message for).

Scroll to 'Coming Home Message'

You'll see an optional text field with the placeholder “e.g. Coming home to you 💕.” Type whatever you want — emojis welcome.

Pick your audience

As soon as you start typing, a recipient picker appears below: Show this message to with checkboxes for each family member. By default it shows everyone. Uncheck whoever you don't want seeing this particular message — kids, in-laws, roommates, your boss.

Save

Hit Save. Done. Next time you tap “Going Home” from the map, only the people you picked will see the custom message — everyone else gets the friendly default.

💡

Different places, different messages. Set “Coming home to you 💕” on Home, “Heading to clock in 💼” on Work, “On my way to pick you up 🚗” on School. Each has its own audience.

Setting your 'Almost There' threshold

The receiver picks how many minutes before arrival they want a heads-up. Settings → Notifications → Location → Almost There Alert. Pick from Off, 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, or 20 min. Default is 5.

Mom needs 15 minutes to start dinner. Dad only needs 3 to wrap up a call. Each device picks its own — they don't have to match.

Kid-friendly mode

Custom messages can get personal. To keep them off kids' devices entirely:

Pick up the kid's iPhone or iPad
Open BRYKK → Settings → Notifications → Location
Toggle Show Custom Messages OFF

Now the kid's device shows the friendly default (“Mom is coming home — about 18 min”) instead of the custom message — even if Mom forgot to exclude them in the recipient picker.

Defense in depth. Sender controls the audience per-place. Receiver controls whether to show custom messages at all. Both have to fail before a kid sees an inappropriate message.

What it sounds like

The Coming Home Alert plays the BRYKK arrival chime instead of the default notification sound. It's the same warm two-tone chime that plays when a family member arrives. So even before you read the notification, your ear knows: somebody's coming home.

What it looks like

Two screenshots in one:

Heading home (with custom message): “🏡 Sarah is on their way to you” / “Picking up dinner on the way home 🍕 · 12 min”
Heading home (no custom message): “🏡 Sarah is on their way to you” / “Sarah is coming home — about 18 min”
Almost there (5 min out): “Sarah is almost there!” / “About 5 min from Home”
Arrived: “Sarah made it safely” / “Arrived at Home”