SharkSmart — 6 July 2026

These are the first release notes for the SharkSmart admin, where staff manage alerts, beaches, detection stations, drone schedules, teams and reports. Here is what is new as they begin.

New

• Alert review and approval: approve an alert with your edits applied in one step, and see which channels it will reach, including the in-app Webapp channel. A publish that cannot go ahead now says why. Archive and retract each have their own permission, and you can archive several alerts at once.
• Richer alerts: add up to ten images and a read-only location map, use a free-text field in templates, and see the species you and your colleagues use most listed first.
• Beaches open and closed: open or close a beach from the beaches list, or have a published alert do it. Staff who can reopen a beach are reminded while it stays closed.
• Reports with period filters: choose a period for analytics and the quarterly report, download a branded PDF, and see manual figures marked as manually provided.
• Team dashboards: each team has its own dashboard with a logo and cover image. Alerts created by hand belong to the creator's teams, so a team granted an alert type sees only its own alerts, not every alert of that type in the workspace.
• App import from Google Play: import apps from Google Play as well as App Store Connect, with store metrics for each app.

Improved

• The dashboard and full map load faster and keep their data while filters refresh. Linking issues flag a station awaiting review once, with an enable button, and history pages show the full count. A new password can no longer repeat your current one or a recent one.

Fixed

• Alert times in messages and push notifications show AM or PM. Quiet-hours bypass now applies to every audience, and alert type settings show the values you saved.