Notifications

Settings → Notifications. The screen is grouped into Safety (always on), Location, Alerts, and Other.

• SOS — fires the second any family member triggers SOS. Critical priority — bypasses Do Not Disturb and Focus modes.
• Crash Detected— fires when a family member's phone detects a serious impact and they don't respond to the “Are you OK?” prompt within 10 seconds.

• Departures— “Sarah is on the way — Headed to Work, about 22 min away.” Fires once when a family member starts driving with a destination set.
• Coming Home to You — special alert with the arrival chime when a family member starts a trip toward the saved place you are currently at. See the Coming Home Alerts guide for details.
• Show Custom Messages— when on, displays the sender's personal homecoming message (e.g. “Picking up dinner 🍕”). Turn off on kids' devices.
• Arriving Soon — fires for family members already at the destination when someone is close.
• Almost There Alert — your personal heads-up when family is X minutes from arriving. Pick your threshold: Off, 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, or 20 min. Each family member sets their own — Mom needs 15 to start dinner, Dad only needs 3.
• Arrivals— “Sarah made it safely — Arrived at Home.” Plays a friendly chime.
• When Riding Together— by default, BRYKK suppresses alerts about people you're physically with (same car, <30m apart, both moving). Turn this on to override that and get notifications anyway.

• Speed Alerts — fires when a family member exceeds a speed threshold (configurable per member, coming soon).
• Dead Zone Alerts — fires when a family member enters an area with no cell signal during a drive. Suppressed for known recurring dead zones (BRYKK learns them).
• Severe Weather — fires when severe weather is forecast for any family member's current location.

• Chat Messages — standard chat notifications for family group messages.
• Calendar Reminders— “Time to leave for [calendar event] — traffic adds 8 min.” Pulled from your iOS Calendar.

First check that iOS itself has BRYKK notifications enabled: Settings → Notifications → BRYKK → Allow Notifications. BRYKK logs the current status loudly on every launch — look for a line in the dev log that says BRYKK-PUSH: ⚠️ NOTIFICATIONS ARE DENIED if something is wrong.