IOS REFERENCE

Getting started

What to do in your first five minutes with AnchorQueen.

1. Splash screen

When you open the app you see the splash for a few seconds while the chart

and services warm up.

Once it clears, you land on the SeaTracker chart in

Three permissions matter. Grant them all — the anchor watch needs them to

keep you safe.

Location — Always. Required so the anchor alarm runs while the screen

is off and the app is in the background. If iOS first asks for "While

Using," allow that, then change to Always when asked again.

Notifications. So the drift alarm and weather alerts can reach you.

Background App Refresh. So monitoring keeps running between uses.

If you missed a prompt, Settings shows what is missing and

takes you to the iOS Settings page to fix it.

Read Basic UI — the toolbar, sidebar, map controls, and

MOB button shared by every tab.

Skim the page for each of the nine tabs from the

Drop your physical anchor and let the boat settle.

Switch to the SafeAnchor tab.

Use the Anchor Watch sub-mode to drop the anchor pin at your boat's

position.

Set the alarm radius to your rode length plus a margin for GPS drift.

Arm the alarm.

Full detail is in SafeAnchor.

The splash never clears — see

A permission prompt never appeared — see