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Contacts

Your contacts are the people you can share an outing with. Nobody can follow you unless they are in this list and you included them in that particular outing.

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File: img/myjikita/contacts-01-list.png Shows: The contacts list with accepted contacts and one pending invitation.

myJikita does not read your phone's address book​

The app never asks for access to your phone contacts and never uploads them. The list here is one you build deliberately, inside myJikita, one person at a time.

That is more typing and it is the right trade: your address book contains hundreds of people who have no business knowing where you are.

Adding a contact​

  1. Main menu → Contacts → Add.
  2. Enter the person's details as prompted.
  3. They receive an invitation and have to accept it.

Until they accept, they appear as pending and cannot be added to an outing.

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File: img/myjikita/contacts-02-add.png Shows: The add-contact form.

Do this at home

An invitation that has not been accepted is not a safety net. Set your contacts up on wifi, and check they show as accepted before you rely on them.

The other person needs myJikita installed and an Alpik account of their own — following someone happens on their own map, not through a link in a message.

Choosing the right people​

Covered properly in What a good plan contains, but the short version: pick people who will notice a notification within an hour or two and who will act on it without agonising. Two such people beat ten who each assume somebody else is on it.

It is worth sending them Watching someone else once, so they know what is being asked of them before it is asked.

Removing a contact​

Remove someone from the list and they can no longer be added to future outings.

A contact removed during a running outing stops being able to follow it. If you want to stop everyone following you, stop the outing — see Sharing your position.

Being someone else's contact​

When somebody adds you, you get an invitation. Accepting means they can include you in their outings, and when they do, you are told and their position appears on your map.

It does not share your position with them. Sharing is never automatic and never reciprocal: it happens only when you start an outing and choose to include them. See Who can see your position.