How Goings works

See what’s happening.

A Link is a temporary space built around something happening at a real place: a game, a show, a party, a pop-up. Open Goings and the ones near you come first, with how many people are there and when each one ends.

• Browse Links by place on the map in Explore.
• Anyone signed in can follow along from anywhere.
• Turn on nearby Link alerts to hear when one goes live close by.

Be there to post.

To join a Link or post in it, you need to be within three miles of it. That’s how everything inside a Link comes from people who are actually there.

• Goings checks your approximate location, rounded to about 100 meters.
• Your location is never added to your profile, and there’s no history of where you’ve been.
• Without location, you can still browse and follow along.

How we protect your location

Share a Moment.

A photo, a short video or a few words, just for your friends. You get three a day, and each one leaves the Friends tab after 24 hours.

• Share with all your friends, or only your Close Friends.
• Tag a place from Apple Maps, and friends can save it with Want to go.
• Your Moments stay in your private Archive until you delete them.

Bring your people.

Circles are private group chats for the people you see every week, with your group’s Moments, memories and plans in one place.

• Invite-only. Someone in the Circle approves each new member.
• Circles never show up in search.
• New members see messages from when they joined.

It stays.

When a Link ends it becomes a recap, a memory of the night kept for the people who were there. Your profile fills up with the places you went and who you went with.

• Turn any month or year from Memories into a link anyone can open.
• It shows your name, a few counts and up to 24 photos. Never captions, comments, friends or locations.
• Stop sharing whenever you want, and the link stops working.