Mission Control TODAY chip — your phase-aware checklist for right now
Understand the Mission Control TODAY chip — what it shows, how it's different from Mission Control, and how the Morning Brief works.
Mission Control is the dashboard — what's happening. The TODAY view is the worklist — what to do right now. It changes shape based on which trip phase you're in and bubbles up the Morning Brief at the top of the day.
Steps
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Open Today
Tap the TODAY chip on Mission Control.
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"Use my location" on the chip
The chip's weather, tide and sun rows all need a position. Until you have answered the iOS location prompt they use your homeport instead, and the chip says so: the conditions line ends in "· Homeport", or reads "Add a homeport for weather" when the vessel has no homeport coordinates either. While that is true, a "Use my location" row sits under the conditions line.
Tapping that row is what asks iOS. Nothing on Mission Control asks on its own — deliberately, so a brand-new install never meets the location dialog before it meets the app. Other controls on the screen do ask when what you tapped needs a position: Go now, and the anchor watch's Resume, for example. So does opening the TODAY view itself (tapping the chip), because its Morning Brief reads the weather, tide and sun for where you are: if you have not answered yet, that is when iOS asks, as it does from the chip's weather, tide and sun screens. The row leaves once you have answered, and if you allowed, the chip reads your position as soon as it has a fix.
If you said no, iOS will not ask again, so the row is replaced by a line saying location is off for theONE with an Open Settings link: the way back is Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → theONE. On a device where location is not allowed at all — a managed or parentally restricted phone — the chip says it is unavailable on this device and offers no link, because Settings cannot lift that.
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The Morning Brief
Top of the TODAY view. It stays there all day until you tap Hide, and it is back the next day. Six rows: a weather window, tide, sun, a fuel-and-systems readiness verdict carried over from Ready Now, the next trip or leg, and services due soon. A row with nothing to show says why (no position yet, no NOAA tide station within 100 miles, or NOAA did not answer, when a tap on the row tries again); it says Loading only while it is loading.
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Phase-aware checklist
The middle of the TODAY view is the NOW section: this trip's tasks for its current phase. There are three phases — Pre-departure, Underway and Post-operation — and the COMING UP section below it lists what is queued for the next one.
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Quick logging lives on Mission Control
There is no quick-log row at the bottom of TODAY — the view ends at open issues, guest requests and the footer.
The two quick actions that do exist are on Mission Control's telemetry tiles: long-press the Fuel tile for Log fuel fill-up, or the engine tile for Log run hours. There is no quick-log for observations or telemetry: log an observation from the Maintenance tab, and readings through the telemetry tiles.
Related
- What Mission Control is showing youDecode every band, chip, and tile on the dashboard.
- What the phase chip meansPre-departure, Departing soon, Underway, Post-operation — what the chip reads at each point and what it changes.
- Welcome — the 5 things to know firstIf you only read one article, read this one.