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Privacy lock — biometric lock and emergency screen

Lock theONE behind Face ID or Touch ID, and see what the locked screen still offers without unlocking.

Privacy Lock keeps the boat's data behind Face ID or Touch ID, with your device passcode as the fallback. There is no separate app passcode. When the app's locked the screen carries an Emergency button that opens the emergency drawer without unlocking: Coast Guard numbers, the VHF Channel 16 reminder, a mayday script and a man-overboard checklist. Every word of it is fixed text baked into the app, so none of the boat's own records are exposed.

Steps

  1. Open Privacy & Lock

    Menu (☰) → Settings → Privacy & Lock. Not the Stowage tab: its Settings row is shown to vendors alone, and a captain will not find one there. The screen is high-stakes — read the explanation at the top before changing anything.

  2. Turn lock on

    Toggle 'Require Face ID / Touch ID'. theONE asks for your biometric every cold launch and after the auto-lock window.

  3. Auto-lock window

    Pick how long after backgrounding the app re-locks. Default is 5 minutes. Set to Immediately for stricter privacy.

  4. Widgets and the Live Activity

    While the lock is on, theONE's widgets and a trip's Live Activity hide the boat's details on a locked phone: the widgets show blank placeholders until the phone is unlocked, and the Live Activity's Lock Screen card says only that a trip is underway. Two tiles on My Glance stay readable, because they are safety readings, not personal data: Anchor (armed or off, dragging and how far out, and the alarm radius) and Depth. The boat's name and status line, her position, the trip and every other tile stay hidden. While the lock is on the boat is also out of the iPhone's search, and Siri offers no list of your engines or records. With the lock off they show everything, as before.

  5. What the lock covers

    While the lock is up, nothing theONE opens can show over it — not a screen that was open when the phone went to sleep, a link, a notification you tap, a Spotlight result, a file you open in theONE, or the Live Activity's End Trip. Those wait, and the last one opens when you unlock. Man overboard never waits. With the lock on, theONE's picture in the App Switcher is covered; Boat IT and crew cards are covered there whether the lock is on or not. On the Apple Watch, a jot you dictate waits on the watch while the lock is on, and theONE's complications hide the boat's details — Anchor stays readable. A vendor's Clock me out on the Lock Screen asks for the phone to be unlocked.

  6. Notifications

    While the lock is on, reminders that carry personal details say only that there is one: a document or a licence about to expire and a member's access running out read "theONE has a reminder. Unlock to see it.", and a float plan past its return time reads "Float plan overdue" with no boat, time or name. Unlock to read them; a tap opens the right screen after you unlock. Safety alarms keep their words on a locked phone — anchor dragging, the depth margin, engine temperature, tank levels, man overboard and the marine warnings — because seeing one at a glance is the point. Reminders already waiting are reworded the moment you turn the lock on. Turn it off and each gets its details back the next time theONE schedules it: documents and licences at the next launch, a member's access when it is next granted or extended, a float plan when you next file one.

  7. Emergency screen

    There is nothing to configure. Privacy & Lock has four sections — App lock, Auto-relock, Boat IT vault and Diagnostics — and none of them changes the lock screen. What a guest gets is fixed: the USCG cellular shortcut (dialled as *CG on the keypad), the USCG National Command Center number, 911, the Channel 16 reminder, a mayday script with blanks to read aloud, and a six-step man-overboard checklist.

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