You may have read about the updates we have implemented into the Walkalone app.

We're keen to share some simple updates that will make life easier for our user base due to be released soon.

In the main these are Walkalone user interface tweaks and additions, some of which will actually make the platform that bit safer end more efficient for users.
 

1. Option to share Walkalone user location map
   Will feature beneath the user location map when accessed by alert recipient when the Walkalone high efficiency mode is used. In the first instance this will be an option to share the map and details by email 
   
   
2. User location map ID reference encryption 
   Will provide total protection for users in that it won't be possible for any location map generated by the system - be it as a result of testing or a genuine alert sent to request help - from being inadvertantly stumbled across or maliciously sought a any future point in time
   
   
3. Admin to have access to all historic alerts and associate map references in order to provide information Police authorities which could help with any criminal investigation

A new option on the Walkalone app allows users to choose a high efficiency mode which helps speed up delivery and efficiency of alerts and maps of their location sent through to their emergency contact's mobile phone.

Users see the option when switching on the Walkalone app. So what's the difference between normal and high efficiency mode?

Both modes address the recipient of the alert personally and the urgent tone of the message remains unchanged.

However, alerts sent in normal mode contain the map of the user's location within the alert whereas high efficiency mode contains a unique code for recipients to access the location map at Walkalone.co.uk and a short instruction telling them how.

This update adds further strength to an already powerful tool at the fingtertips of victims of any kind of social or domestic violence, be they women, children, teen or pensioner - any phone user in fact.

High-efficiency alerts only contain text rather than dynamic googlemaps URLs which can be lengthy.  Lengthy googlemaps urls are not favoured by all mobile phone SMS networks so may flag to the operator's individual spam regulations.

Walkalone high-efficiency mode counters the problem securing faster first time success for alerts.