Padlok groups your addresses by place, and shares them with no signal

Padlok 2026.1 is out on the App Store, and it is the largest update since the app launched in December 2021. Addresses group themselves into places, the filter became a panel you can read at a glance, arrival notifications keep hours and an area of their own, and a Padlok QR code now carries the address itself — so it scans with no signal on either end.

Places

Addresses group themselves by town. The filter can narrow to one of them, and the map opens on the area you are standing in instead of framing the whole country. A long press renames any place or tag.

A filter you can read

The filter is a panel now: how many addresses come through it up top, every tag, place and pin as a badge below. Tap a badge to include it, tap again to exclude it — no more hidden swipes.

Padlok's filter panel over a map of London: two addresses out of six, with Pinned, Notification enabled and Suggested filters, London and Edinburgh as places, and Friends, Family and Work as tags.

Notifications that know when and where

An address can carry its own hours and its own arrival area: no buzzing from the office at the weekend, and a circle you can drag and size to the building rather than the street. Both are Padlok Premium features.

QR codes without a server

A Padlok code used to be a link to an address. It now carries the address itself, which changes three things: it works with no signal on either end, it works for every address rather than one at a time, and it leaves nothing behind on a server — the address rides in a URL fragment that never leaves the device. Scanning uses the whole camera, focuses up close, and tells you when a code isn’t ours.

A Padlok address sheet with a notification switch, Link and QR Code share buttons, and Copy, Itinerary and Edit actions.

Built for iOS 26

A new Liquid Glass app icon, a drawer that behaves like a system sheet, and every way to add an address gathered onto one glass button.

And the rest

Addresses are free to create, however many — the free tier is about what you may read, not what you may write, and the three nearest stay open. Padlok speaks 26 languages, notifications included. Favorites became pins, twelve new pictograms arrived, distances read in whole units and finally respect the setting, and the in-app biometric lock is gone: iOS locks Padlok behind Face ID itself, and does it better. Underneath sits a long sweep of fixes across iCloud sync, widgets, the Watch app, Shortcuts and sharing.

Availability

Padlok 2026.1 is a free update, available now on the App Store . Padlok is free to download; Padlok Premium is $1.99 per month, $9.99 per year with a two-week trial, or $34.99 once (1,99 € ; 9,99 € ; 39,99 € — £1.99 ; £9.99 ; £34.99). This release asks for iOS 17 and later, and watchOS 10 and later on Apple Watch.

If you are a press member, write to press@padlok.app for a free promo code.