Safety
It tells your circle. It doesn’t call emergency services. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.
SOS
Tells your circleYour live location and an alert go to everyone in your circle, even with quiet hours on.
No internetLode opens Messages with your location for you to send by text. It needs cell service, and you tap Send.
Call emergency servicesOne tap from the SOS screen: 911, 112 or the number where you are. Lode doesn’t call for you.
Crash detection
What it doesIf your phone senses a hard crash while you drive, it asks if you’re OK. If you don’t answer, your circle is alerted.
Its limitsIt can miss a crash or mistake a hard bump for one. It needs Lode allowed to use location “Always”, and works best with the phone mounted or in a cupholder.
Walk with me
What it doesYour circle follows your walk. If you stop for a while without arriving, Lode asks if you’re OK, and tells them if you don’t answer.
Alerts and locations
A spot can be oldA location is as fresh as its time says. A phone that’s off, out of battery, in Low Power Mode, or without signal stops updating.
What keeps it workingLocation “Always”, notifications on, and Lode up to date, on each person’s phone.
Lode is not an emergency service and can’t promise every alert arrives. Questions: support@lodemaps.app