Updates

A meet is no longer limited by the plan of whoever posted it. Post one and every driver who looks at that part of the map sees it. Meet boosts are gone; there is nothing left to buy.

A meet hosted by a business on a plan gets a cyan ring on its pin and a Preferred shop chip with the shop's name, on the map, in the list and on the meet itself.

Drivers see a Local shop on the Business map and list from up to 25 miles away, a Featured one from 100 and a Regional one from 500.

A business on any plan can talk in its own convoys without buying voice separately.

A tab of public posts: share a build, a route or a question, with one photo. Like and reply, switch between everyone and your friends, and get a notification when someone replies to or likes your post. Your chats are behind the Chats switch at the top of the same tab.

On the phone and on the car screen, in dark, light or night, or following the sun. Apple Maps still takes over by itself if the map cannot be reached.

New accounts confirm their email address with a six-digit code. No phone number is asked for.

The reset email now carries a one-time code that only the phone that asked for it can use.

Open it from the Friends count on the You tab. Invite friends is at the top, and Leaderboard has its own tile on You.

The top bar on the CarPlay map no longer hides itself.

A road running alongside the route now counts as leaving it, so directions catch up instead of carrying on as if you were still on it.

Asks, calls, website taps and Drive here taps for the last 30 days, the row drivers see, and what is left to finish on the listing. Choose which sections show and in what order.

Drivers see whether you are open, your photos and your offer in the Business tab. A business with a plan also gets its own web page, made from the listing.

Messages from drivers are marked new, replied, booked or done. Settings is its own tab, and a business account can switch to a driver view on the same sign-in.

The Meets tab is now Events. Meets and posted convoys show as balloons with how many are going. Tap a convoy to see the drive and join it. Leaders post a convoy from the plus button.

Shops with a plan are named on the Business map and listed first. Tap Ask to message one with your car already attached.

Keep several cars and open them from the Garage tile on the You tab.

A short list of categories, each on its own page. Camera alerts are under Notifications.

On the phone and on the car screen, not only along your route.

In a convoy, the panel at the bottom of the map shows the radio, who is on it and who is talking, with the destination on the same card.

Opening Paddock on the car screen no longer blanks the phone.

On the car screen the lane row and the who-is-talking pill no longer sit under the sidebar, and on the phone the glow round whoever is talking is no longer cut off.

Report police, a crash, debris and more from the map or from CarPlay. Drivers nearby see it, and anyone passing is asked whether it is still there.

Known speed, red light and average speed cameras on your route, spoken and shown as you get near. From OpenStreetMap and from lists that cities publish themselves.

The lanes to be in show on the phone’s direction banner and on the car map.

Paddock rechecks traffic as you go and offers a faster route when there is one. Arrival times use live traffic.

The banner and the car screen show the distance, the road and the exit.

The CarPlay map shows who is on the radio.

They lower the car’s audio while they speak, and play with the phone locked.

Pick the colour of the ring round your avatar, on the phone and on CarPlay.

Gas, hazard and one button to recentre sit together on the right, clear of the bottom panel. Record drive now lives in that panel, and stays in view while a recording is running.

When CarPlay opened Paddock with the phone app closed, the car showed a bare map and a blue dot. It now starts the whole app on the car screen.

Your speed sits top right of the CarPlay map, Waze-style, with the posted limit on its corner. The limit badge only shows when the road has a limit on record.

It centres on you and stays at the zoom you chose, instead of springing back out, and starting a drive no longer opens it zoomed out to the whole country.

The car screen uses the same OpenStreetMap look as the phone. Other drivers show with their avatars and usernames, your own marker shows too, and you can swipe to pan. Gas stations, hazard reports and the Crew and Routes lists are one tap away.

Car shops appear as pins by kind, and pins that overlap group into a cluster you can tap to zoom in. Filter by Repair, Detailing, Tires, Parts or Paddock partners, and search this area once you have moved the map. Tap a pin for details, then Drive here, Call or Website. The list is still one tap away.

On the phone it stays out of the way until you go over the limit, then appears beside your speed.

Find car businesses around you — repair shops, tires, detailing, parts, performance, dealers and towing — without them crowding the map. Businesses on Paddock come first, then everything Apple Maps knows of within about 25 miles. Tap one to call, visit its website, or drive there.

Start a convoy or join one with a code right from the panel at the bottom of the map, where the people in it show up. The Convoys tab made way for Business.

With the panel open, your destination shows once, on the card with the routes, instead of twice.

The Meets tab no longer waits for a fresh GPS fix before listing what is near you, so it no longer says there are no meets while it is still finding you.

Ending a drive lays the map flat and north-up again, and the tab bar stays dark and readable over the Light map.

If Paddock’s map can’t be loaded, Apple Maps takes over by itself, and Paddock’s comes back as soon as it can. There is no longer a switch to find.

The map is now drawn in Paddock’s own colours from OpenStreetMap, with 3D buildings when you drive. Pick its look in Settings → Map: Dark, Light, Night, or Auto — light by day, dark after sunset. Routes, live traffic, gas stations and everything else on it work as before.

The gas list covers every mile to your destination, not just the first stretch, so a 200-mile drive can be planned from the start. Every station is listed, in the order you reach it.

Add as many stops as the drive needs, up to ten. The route goes through them in order along the road, each one drops off once you have pulled in, and on a convoy trip the leader can plan them for everyone.

The limit for the road you are on, top right of the map and in the corner of the car screen, beside your speed — which turns red once you are more than 5 mph over. With a route it knows the limits ahead before you reach them; without one it works from the road you are on. Shown wherever the map data has a limit, and never spoken or recorded.

Check again in Settings → Notifications on this phone could not work: the server turned every phone away. That is fixed on the server, so it works in the version you already have.

A drive’s 0–60 was timed from an earlier stop to the next time you reached sixty — 47 minutes on one long drive. It now times one unbroken pull from a stop, and shows nothing when there was not one.

A jump in the GPS could look like a burst of speed: one city drive showed 104 mph and a 0.59 g pull that never happened. They now use the speed your phone measures, and a pull or stop held for about two seconds.

With a drive recording, the round buttons on the right moved over to line up with the timer. They stay on the right edge now.

Where to? and the car search both kept only some of what you typed if you typed quickly. Every letter arrives now.

After your location switched off and on, or you picked the same place again, no route was asked for. It is now.

A Convoy Voice subscription bought on another phone, or before reinstalling, was found and then dropped. Restore now brings it back to your account, and tells you if the purchase belongs to a different one.

The 600-minute pack is part of Premium, monthly or yearly, but only monthly could buy one.

Convoy Voice and business plans show what the App Store will actually charge you, not the US price.

Signed in to one account and opening a reset link for another could set a new password on the first. The link now decides, and the screen tells you if your other devices could not be signed out.

Talking across midnight on the 1st put the whole call on the month before. Each part now counts against its own month.

Since 18 September the form said “Could not save that”. If you tried then, please send it again.

Type “2019 mustang”, “civic” or “f-150” in Settings → Your car and pick it from every car sold in the US since 1984. Its official MPG fills in, and so does the fuel it takes — premium, diesel, flex-fuel E85 or electric.

Add your MPG and tank size, then tap Filled up or enter the miles left on your dash. Paddock counts down as you drive, and on a trip longer than your range it tells you how far you can go and suggests a station on your route before then — one tap to add it as a stop.

One tap marks debris, a stopped car, slow traffic or a pothole where you are. The cars behind you see it on the map, get a banner once it is on their road ahead, and hear it at about a mile — on the phone or through CarPlay. It clears itself after twenty minutes.

Choose EV fast in the fuel list to see DC fast chargers on the road ahead, with how many there are, which plugs (CCS, Tesla, NACS) and whose network — from the U.S. Department of Energy’s station list.

When the leader picks a station, every car in the convoy is routed through it. Anyone else can tap "I need gas" or suggest a station: the leader sees who asked, on the phone and the car screen, and can stop there with one tap. The stop clears itself once the leader has filled up and driven on.

Its card opens straight away with the address, what it sells, Add stop, and Prices, which opens that station in Google Maps.

Starting a convoy drive from the map went straight to the destination and ignored the stops the leader had planned. Every car now drives through them, and a stop you have already been to, or driven past, is never sent to you again.

Choose your fuel in Settings — Regular, Midgrade, Premium, Diesel or E85 — then tap the pump on the map. On a route, alone or in a convoy, you see the stations on the road ahead in the order you would reach them; switch to Near the route to include ones a few minutes off it. With no route, it shows what is around you. Tap one to add it as a stop. E85 stations come from the U.S. Department of Energy’s station list.

The pump beside 3D opens the same list in CarPlay. Pick a station to add it as a stop, or change your fuel and On or Near the route, without touching the phone.

Switching the engine off at the pump ended the drive there, and the part before it could be lost. Setting off again within half an hour from where you stopped now carries on the same drive. Stopping at your destination, or pressing Stop, still ends it.

Where to? now searches Apple Maps right on your phone, so suggestions update with every letter instead of waiting on a server. Places you have been come up first, instantly, and a search you have done before comes back at once.

A moving car kept asking for a fresh route before the last one had arrived, and threw each answer away, so sometimes a route never appeared. It now waits for the answer it asked for, and that answer comes back sooner.

A new route now starts the way you are already driving, instead of behind you or with a U-turn that sent you off-route again. And a slow answer from one map service no longer holds you up: if it has not replied in about a second, Paddock asks another.

Crew, then Radio at the top of the list. While you are muted your music plays in full quality and you still hear the convoy; tap again when you want to talk.

CarPlay switches the whole car to call audio while any app is listening to the microphone, and muting used to leave the microphone on. Muting now switches it off. While you talk, CarPlay still uses call audio; no app can avoid that.

Not only to a convoy or a meet. Search for an address, pick it and drive, with the same turn-by-turn guidance on the phone and the car screen.

Your music keeps playing when you join the radio, stays in stereo on Bluetooth, and dips a little while somebody is talking. Paddock also filters road noise and instruments out of your microphone; singing comes through quieter rather than gone.

Parking near the destination, or switching the engine off there, ends the trip. Switching it on with CarPlay connected starts watching for the next drive.

The car screen finds your location on its own now.

A reroute changes the road you are on instead of starting a new drive, and the whole convoy sees the new line. The car screen shows a finish flag and no start flag.

Blue and black instead of orange, with traffic drawn on the route, and an arrival time that counts that traffic.

Nothing was recorded for about a week. Automatic and recorded drives save again.

Turn-by-turn directions on the car screen, with your convoy drawn on the map and a list of who is where. Apple approved Paddock as a navigation app.

Routes, next to Crew, lists the other ways to go with their time and distance.

$49.99 or $73.99 a year, which saves $9.89 against paying monthly.

Codes go through Apple, so the discount shows on your Apple subscription.

Instead of everybody's mileage, which nobody was reading at a glance.

The slow stretches are drawn in amber and the jams in red, so the convoy can see what is ahead before it is in it. Only the bad parts are coloured — painting the clear road green would hide the thing worth looking at.

Each route option says whether it has tolls and what they come to, so the leader can take the free road on purpose rather than by accident.

A shop or a cafe now gets its own set of tabs — its profile, its ads and its settings in one place, rather than a driver's app with extra buttons. Business accounts can still start and join convoys.

The badges on the meets map are buttons now, not decoration.

Guidance asked the phone where it was once and then never again, so the distance never counted down. It follows you now.

A phone that woke Paddock in the background before it had been unlocked could not reach its own saved session, and kept retrying instead of waiting. It waits now.

Basic is $2.99 for 300 participant minutes a month, Standard is $4.99 for 1,200, and Premium is $6.99 for 3,000. Basic and Standard stop at the cap. Premium can add a 600-minute pack only after you approve the purchase.

Five qualifying friends earn half off the $6.99 Premium plan for three months.

It always said it did, and on the convoy screen it did not: your position was still sent to the other cars. Blocking someone had the same gap there, and a position from hours ago could be drawn as though you were still at it. All three are fixed, and there are tests so they stay fixed.

Getting in without the code was possible for anyone willing to poke at the app. Now the code, the car limit and blocking are all checked in one place that nothing can skip.

Messages you sent used to stay in the conversation without your name on them, including any position you shared in one. They go with the account now, along with any demo request from the website that used your email.

Being removed, leaving, or the convoy ending now takes you off the voice channel in the same moment. Before, a connection could outlast the convoy by up to two hours.

Totals are now checked against the clock: nobody can report more driving than has actually happened, however they ask. Your own numbers are unaffected.

Tap them in the Members list. They leave the convoy and its chat, they cannot rejoin it, and the join code changes so the one they already have stops working.

Swipe a conversation left, or press and hold it. It only leaves your list; everyone else keeps it, and a direct message comes back if the person writes again. Convoy chats also clear themselves a day after the convoy ends.

From the Members list: pick a limit, or no limit. Once a convoy is full the code stops letting new cars in, and a car leaving frees its place.

It was drawing each driver's own calculated route, which could differ from the leader's choice and from the map tab.

The map tab said nobody was sharing while your whole convoy was on screen.

Meets from a Local plan now reach 50 miles, Featured 100 and Regional 200.

A convoy on a winding road, in place of the placeholder the app shipped with.

The convoy screen now shows who is on the radio, and their picture glows green while they talk. On the map, the radio pill shows the name of whoever is speaking. The full list of people in the convoy is behind the Members button.

A convoy leader can mute everyone, then let certain people talk, or mute one person and leave everyone else on. Tap someone on the radio to change it. It is enforced by the voice server, so a muted mic stays muted.

Each drive shows its route on a map, where you started and finished, how far and how long. Open one to rename it, delete it, or save just a section of it as its own drive. Only you can see them.

Settings → Drive recording: how fast you need to go and for how long before a drive starts, and how long you can be stopped before it ends. Turn detection off and use the Record button on the map instead.

The gear on the You tab. The You tab is now your profile, your car and your drives.

A public meet now shows to drivers within 5 miles of it, and business plans reach further. Friends-only meets, meets you are invited to and meets you said you are going to stay in your list as before. Your meet's page shows how far it reaches right now.

Leaving the map and coming back at the wrong moment could crash it, usually right after opening the app. The same weakness was in the friends, chat, meets and convoy screens, and all of them are fixed.

Every driver used to ask for their own alternatives and pick one on their own phone, so the leader taking the coast road changed nothing for anybody else and two people in the same convoy could follow different lines to the same place. The leader now picks the route where they set the addresses, and everyone draws that line. It only changes when the leader changes it.

Leaders can make any member the leader, from the menu on their name. They take over the route and the convoy; you stay in it as a member. It was not possible before at all.

Naming one used to drop you straight on the map, so the normal outcome was a convoy with no route — setting one was a button buried on its detail page that most people never found. Now naming it takes you to the route screen: where you leave from, any stops, where you end up. You can still skip it, but now that is a decision rather than a step nobody offered you. Joining somebody else's convoy still goes straight to the map, because a route is not yours to set.

Invite five people who sign up, share their location and join a convoy and you earn an Apple offer code for half off Convoy Voice Premium for three months. The reward is once per account. Anyone who already earned the older reward keeps what they were given.

Enough for a couple sharing a handset, not enough to make five accounts and invite yourself. The app asks your phone for the identifier your operating system gives apps for exactly this; it is not an advertising id, it cannot be linked to anything outside Paddock, and it resets if you delete the app.

Being somebody's friend used to be enough to watch them drive around indefinitely, which is a lot of standing permission to hand over once and never think about again. Now a live, shared convoy is required: join one and those members see you, leave it or let it end and you are off their map in the same second. Outside a convoy nobody can see you at all. Ghost mode still hides you even inside one. The rule is enforced in the database, not the app, so no screen can forget it.

It used to run a navigation-grade GPS from the moment you turned sharing on until you turned it off, so a phone on a desk kept the location indicator lit all day. It now drops to a coarse, cheap watch five minutes after you stop moving and comes back up when you pull away. Five minutes rather than instantly, because traffic lights and drive-throughs are not the end of a drive.

Four boards rather than one, because there is no single answer to who is doing this best: distance, hours behind the wheel, convoys rolled with, and meets turned up to. This week and all time. Only friends ever see your numbers. Distance and hours are added up on your phone and sent as a running total, so the board exists without Paddock storing a single place you have been.

The note two releases ago said this was fixed and it was not. Two of the attempts in between made it worse, by about a car width each. The cause turned out to be in the map library: when a marker draws bigger than the box it was given, the library quietly resizes the box and keeps the size while throwing away the position, which moved every car by half the gap between the two. The car was eighteen points up and to the left of you and is now under a point out, measured rather than eyeballed.

A phone gives about one position a second, to every app, so a car used to hop thirty metres at a time at road speed. Markers now travel between positions and aim at where that driver will be when the next one arrives, which is how a car keeps up with itself on a motorway. If somebody drops off the network their car stops rather than carrying on down a road they may not have taken.

It was set to ignore anything smaller, so at town speed your own car sat still for seconds at a time and then caught up in a jump. That reads exactly like a pin in the wrong place, which is how it hid behind the marker bug above for a week.

It looked right zoomed into a street and drifted, sometimes by miles, once you zoomed out. This took two goes: the first attempt on 9 September changed the wrong thing and made the drift bigger. The real cause was the map library repositioning the marker in screen space whenever it was redrawn, which the compass was triggering several times a second.

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 wider from there. You could be doing seventy with a turn banner counting down and the map showing four states.

Picking a different route greyed the old one out correctly but drew it over the route you had just chosen, hiding it.

Convoy Voice is per person and works on every convoy you join. Basic, Standard and Premium provide different monthly allowances. Anyone without it still gets the live map, route and chat.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

It had never actually connected. It does now.

Once something is over it stops sitting on your map.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Not a straight line through buildings and across water.

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

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

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

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

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.