Safety

Tap Tools, then Safety SMS.

Who to tell

1. Type the name your contacts should see. It goes in the message, so they know who it is about.
2. Tap + beside Emergency Contacts and either pick someone from your contacts or type a name and number.
3. Add as many as you like. They all get the message.
4. Swipe a contact left to remove them.

Texts at the start and end of a ride

1. Pre-compose at ride start opens Messages with your text ready when a ride begins.
2. Pre-compose when ride ends does the same when you stop.
3. Include location link adds an Apple Maps link.

Both are off until you turn them on. And RIDR never sends them by itself — iOS does not let an app send a text silently, so Messages opens with everything filled in and you tap Send. We think that is safer anyway.

4. Edit the wording under Message Templates, or tap Reset to default to put it back.

Crash alerts

If RIDR detects a crash while you are recording a ride, a full-screen countdown takes over the phone with a siren and an escalating buzz. You have 30 seconds.

1. If you are fine, press and hold the cancel control for a second. A tap will not do it — a glove brushing the screen should not be able to silence a crash alert.
2. If the countdown reaches zero, RIDR alerts the emergency contacts you saved, with your location.

SMS Crash Alerts controls how. Left off, RIDR opens Messages with the alert ready and you — or whoever reaches you — taps Send. Turned on, it sends automatically through RIDR's own relay with no tap at all, which is the point when nobody is in a state to tap anything.