Get your family on BRYKKwithout fumbling through setup.
Download BRYKK from the App Store, allow the right permissions, and get your people joined. This page is the clean path for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
Download BRYKK, then create or join a family.
Use a family code to send a join request to the family admin.
Open a family invite link after BRYKK is installed.
Bundled automatically with iPhone.
iPad GPS, iOS background, Low Power Mode.
The cleanest path if you are new to BRYKK.
This is the route most people need. Download BRYKK from the App Store, then finish your family setup inside the app.
Download BRYKK from the App Store
Open the App Store link on your iPhone or iPad, install BRYKK, then tap Open.
Open BRYKK
BRYKK uses your Apple account and iCloud. There is no separate password to create. Open the app and choose whether you are creating a new family or joining an existing one.
Set your name and choose your avatar
BRYKK is fast to read when your family feels recognizable at a glance. Pick the name and emoji your people will actually understand instantly.
Allow the permissions that make BRYKK work
Always Location, Notifications, and Motion are not optional if you want arrivals, departures, impact detection, and real trip awareness to work properly. Microphone, Calendar, and Health are feature-based extras.
If your family already has BRYKK, use their code and be done.
You do not need to overthink this part. Once BRYKK is installed, the person who already runs the family can give you the code and you will appear on the map.
Open BRYKK and choose Join Family
If someone in your house already has BRYKK working, do not create a second family. Choose Join Family and use their code.
Enter the 6-character family code
That code lives inside BRYKK → Settings → Family on the family organizer's phone. Enter it once and your setup is effectively finished.
Add your places before you forget
Home is table stakes. After that, add the places that actually matter in your real life: school, Nana's, work, daycare, the second house, the field, the gym.
If someone sent you a BRYKK family link, open it after install.
Family links work best after BRYKK is already on the device. Install the app first, then come back to the link or enter the family code manually.
Download BRYKK from the App Store.
Open the family invite link or copy the family code.
Choose Join Family inside BRYKK if the link does not open the app automatically.
Finish the same in-app profile and permission setup as everyone else.
If a family link opens in Safari first, use the family code shown on the page. BRYKK accepts the same code inside the Join Family flow.
Apple Watch comes along automatically.
You do not need a second install flow for Apple Watch. Once BRYKK is on your iPhone, the Watch app comes with it on a paired device.
Apple Watch setup
Install BRYKK on iPhone from the App Store.
Wait for the Watch app to sync to your paired watch.
Open BRYKK on your wrist and verify you can see family status and emergency entry points.
Apple Watch screenshots
The Watch captures are being refreshed for the new BRYKK look and will be added here when ready.
What BRYKK can't do, and why.
A few realities are baked into iOS and the hardware in each device. Setting expectations honestly so you know what to look for and where to spend your money.
iPhone is most accurate
The largest GPS antenna, the most satellite constellations, motion-sensor fusion. iPhone keeps tracking smooth in tunnels, parking garages, and urban canyons. Use iPhone as the primary BRYKK device whenever possible.
Cellular iPad is okay
A real GPS receiver, but smaller antenna and fewer satellites than iPhone. Outdoor accuracy is generally good (10–30 m). Indoor or stationary accuracy can be 2–3× wider than iPhone, so positions can wobble more on the map.
Wi-Fi-only iPad has no GPS
Wi-Fi-only iPads ship without a GPS chip. Apple estimates position from nearby Wi-Fi networks and the iPad's IP address — accuracy is ~30–100 m near a known network and can be hundreds of meters off when away from Wi-Fi. Keep these as a household viewing screen, not your primary BRYKK device.
A few iOS behaviors are out of our hands and worth knowing about:
- Always Location is required for arrivals, departures, dead-zone resume, and impact detection. While Using only is not enough — those features need iOS to wake BRYKK in the background.
- Force-quitting BRYKKpauses tracking until you reopen it. iOS treats a swipe-up kill as a strong “don't run” signal. One reopen resumes everything.
- Low Power Mode and Low Data Mode both delay BRYKK pushes. Apple throttles silent CloudKit pushes aggressively in either mode.
- Carrier and Wi-Fi dead zones queue updates locally. You'll see a burst of catch-up activity when signal returns rather than missing data.
The answers people usually need before they stop overthinking it.
Keep this page handy when you are getting a whole family installed. Most problems are one of the few below.
Install it. Get your people in. Then read the family guide.
The setup gets BRYKK on the device. The guide is where your family learns what saved places, shared trips, arrivals, departures, impact detection, and Live Activities actually mean day to day.