Paddock

Updates

What has changed, and when it reached phones. Paddock is in beta, so this list is mostly things that were broken and now are not.

Updates install themselves. You do not need to reinstall from TestFlight for anything on this page. Close Paddock completely, open it, then close and open it once more. The first launch fetches the update and the second one runs it.

9 September 2026

Fixed Pressing Drive no longer zooms the map out to the whole coast

The driving camera is meant to sit low over the car, tilted, pointing the way you are going. On iPhone it was setting the direction and the tilt but never the height, so it kept whatever the map was at and drifted further out from there. You could be doing seventy with a turn banner counting down and the map showing four states.

Fixed Directions work again

Routes stopped coming back at all for about a day. Paddock asks a routing service for the road ahead, and when the preferred one started refusing requests the app treated that as the final answer instead of asking one of the others. It now falls through to a service that works, so a route always gets drawn.

Fixed Your car sits where you actually are, at any zoom

Zoomed into a street it was right; zoomed out to the whole city it drifted, sometimes by miles, and it got worse once you started moving. Your marker was being pinned by the middle of its name label rather than the middle of the car.

Better Convoy Voice is now $10 a month

In a convoy of six people or fewer, one subscription still covers everybody in it. Above six, more than half the convoy needs one. Anybody who bought voice outright before this keeps it, permanently, and will not be billed.

8 September 2026

Better You look like everyone else on the map

Your own car is now the same photo, name and speed the rest of the convoy sees, instead of the standard blue dot.

Better The route stops redrawing itself while you drive

It used to recalculate every few hundred metres, so the line flickered and jumped. It now stays put until you actually leave it.

New The convoy is told when someone drifts off the route

Not on one bad GPS reading, and not more than once every ten minutes: enough to notice a wrong turn, not enough to be a nuisance.

New Paddock for business

Shops, garages and clubs can put a verified pin on the map and promote a meet. Plans and pricing are on the site.

7 September 2026

New Tap a meet on the map to see what it is

Where it is, when it starts, who is going, and a button through to the rest, without leaving the map.

New Pick a different route

Where the routing service offers alternatives you get to choose, with the time, the distance and the road each one uses. Toll estimates and live traffic show where they are available and stay blank rather than guess where they are not.

Better Go keeps you on the map

Starting a convoy or setting a destination used to throw you onto a second, separate map. Directions now draw on the map you were already looking at.

Fixed Convoy voice works

It had never actually connected. It does now.

Fixed Finished convoys and meets disappear

Once something is over it stops sitting on your map.

Fixed Stuck on "Loading convoy" forever
Better A screen that breaks says so

Instead of the app closing on the spot, you get the error and a retry, which also means a bug report can say what happened.

6 September 2026

Fixed Creating a car meet no longer fails

Meets could not be created or opened at all for a stretch.

Fixed Signing in after an update

An update went out that broke sign-in for anyone who took it. Fixed the same day.

Fixed Friends stop flickering in and out on the map
New Invite and convoy links open a real page

A code you text somebody now unfurls properly and lands on a page that shows it, rather than being dead text.

New getpaddockapp.com

Somewhere to point people, with the privacy policy and terms on it.

5 September 2026

Fixed The app closed when you allowed location "Always"

It was doing exactly what it asked you to do and then quitting. This one closed the app outright, so it was the first thing fixed.

New Type an address instead of hunting for it

Suggestions appear as you type, for a convoy destination or a meet.

Better The real road to a meet you said you were going to

Not a straight line through buildings and across water.

Fixed Paying for Convoy Voice actually unlocks it

A payment could go through and grant nothing, silently. If that happened to you, it is fixed and you were not charged twice.

4 September 2026

New Turn-by-turn inside Paddock

Directions to the convoy or the meet, read on the map you are already using.

New A convoy can have its own start and destination

No meet required. Just a drive, from somewhere to somewhere.

New Stops along the way

Add the gas station or the diner to a convoy route.

Better The map is the map

The panels covering it can be dragged down, and the top bar is cleared out. Adding a friend moved to where people were already looking for it.

Found something not on this list? support@getpaddockapp.com, or shake the phone inside TestFlight to send a note with a screenshot attached.