One adult starts the group
The family organizer creates the first account using an email address and makes an invitation for each person joining.
For iPhone beta testers and families considering AGAP
One SOS alerts the people you added.
AGAP is a beta emergency alert app for people who agree to receive one another's alerts. Add family members, friends, caregivers, or colleagues to a private group. If any confirmed member presses SOS, AGAP attempts to send the others the sender's name, a loud alarm, and the location it was able to obtain. Every confirmed member may send and receive an SOS.
This is a beta test. AGAP may fail. Do not rely on it during a real emergency.
What AGAP is for
Calling several people may be difficult or unsafe.
A person may be injured, frightened, hiding, disoriented, or unable to explain what is happening. AGAP gives that person one large SOS button and attempts to alert the confirmed people in their private group at the same time.
AGAP networkA private group of people who agree to receive one another's SOS alerts.
Family organizerThe adult who creates the first account, sends invitations, and checks who is joining.
Confirmed contactA person whose invitation, name, and relationship have been approved.
Every memberEach confirmed member may send an SOS and may receive alerts from the group.
How to set it up
Set up and test your network before an emergency.
Scanning a QR invitation does not create an active connection by itself. Confirm the person's name and relationship, then test both phones together.
Other members join by QR
A child or invited family member may join without creating an email account. The organizer checks and confirms the person's name and relationship.
Test both directions
Keep both phones together. Test Phone A to Phone B, then reverse the roles. Check the alert, alarm, location, and acknowledgement.
What happens after SOS
The sender and receiver see different information.
AGAP sends the alert without waiting for a perfect GPS position. If the phone obtains a location, AGAP attempts to share it while the SOS remains active.
What each update means: Sent is not the same as phone delivery. Phone delivery is not proof that a person heard the alarm. Acknowledged is not the same as responding. Responding is not the same as arrival or confirmed safety.
Who this is for
Families, friends, caregivers, and people who are often alone.
This website is for people considering the iPhone beta, current testers, and families or care groups deciding whether AGAP would be useful to them. The current beta is for personal groups.
Families and close friends
A family can add several members so an SOS does not depend on reaching one person by phone.
Parents and children
The home screen keeps the SOS button easy to find. Confirmed family members receive the child's alert and available location.
Seniors and people living alone
A person who falls, becomes disoriented, or cannot make several calls can alert their chosen family members or caregivers together.
People with disabilities or medical needs
They can alert people who already understand their needs. Optional health and assistance information remains on the phone.
Caregivers
Several caregivers can receive the same alert and see which person has opened it instead of assuming someone else responded.
People travelling or working alone
A student, commuter, jogger, driver, or worker can alert the people they added when they feel unsafe or need urgent help.
Schools and other organizations are not part of the current public beta. School, workplace, security-team, police, and emergency-service connections require separate controls, testing, and formal agreements.
Examples
What pressing SOS would do in these situations.
These examples show personal AGAP networks. In each case, the alert goes only to the people already added and confirmed by the user.
A fall at home
Alert family or caregivers
Pressing SOS attempts to alert the senior's confirmed contacts. They see who sent it and the location AGAP was able to obtain.
Feeling unsafe
Alert family or friends
AGAP attempts to send the SOS and available location to the jogger's confirmed contacts. It does not contact police automatically.
A campus emergency
Alert personal contacts
Students can notify their own AGAP contacts while sheltering. The present beta does not alert the school, security, or emergency services.
Stranded on the road
Alert family, friends, or colleagues
AGAP attempts to alert the driver's confirmed contacts together. Roadside assistance and emergency services are not contacted automatically.
“Confirmed contacts” means people you added to your AGAP network and approved. AGAP does not automatically call or dispatch police, fire, ambulance, roadside assistance, or other emergency services.
What can go wrong
AGAP sends an alert. It does not guarantee help.
AGAP does not replace 911, police, fire, ambulance, security personnel, or nearby help. During an emergency, call the appropriate emergency number or seek help another way whenever you can.
InternetNo working Wi-Fi or mobile data means the alert may be delayed or may not arrive. Signal bars do not prove that the internet works.
LocationThe SOS should still send if location is unavailable. Location may be missing, delayed, inaccurate, or stale, especially indoors.
SoundThe phone may stay silent because of volume, silent mode, Focus, blocked notifications, battery restrictions, or operating-system rules.
ServicesWeak signal, congestion, interference, an unavailable service, or an offline receiving phone may delay or prevent the alert.
ConfirmationDo not assume anyone heard the alert. Check whether a named person opened or acknowledged the SOS.
Test AGAP on iPhone
Test it with someone you know.
The beta is distributed through Apple's TestFlight app. Use two iPhones and test with another person who agrees to receive your alerts.
- Install TestFlight and the AGAP beta on both iPhones.
- Add and confirm each other in AGAP.
- Keep both phones together and warn everyone nearby. The alarm is deliberately loud.
- Send a clearly labelled test SOS from Phone A to Phone B.
- Check the alert, alarm, location, and acknowledgement.
- Reverse the roles, then repeat with the receiving phone open, in the background, and locked.