What’s new

SharkSmart — 20 July 2026

20 July 2026

New

  • Beach conditions audit: beach views have a new Conditions section for checking the data, showing where each figure (temperature, wind, humidity and rainfall) came from and how recent it is.
  • Send a test notification: from a system notification's detail page, send a sample to your own inbox.

Improved

  • Fresher beach conditions: forecast wording is checked about every three hours and observations every hour. Temperature and humidity no longer go blank at beaches near wind-only weather stations, such as Manly.
  • Assistant: questions outside its scope get an immediate reply that names the topic and what it can help with. It now also answers more safety questions, such as swimming precautions with a toddler, and shark ranking questions, which it used to turn down.
  • App stats: blank areas explain why, a Store data as of date is shown, and lifetime installs can be entered by hand and labelled as manual. Revenue, crash-free and retention figures are no longer shown.

Fixed

  • The Map button on recent notifications now zooms the dashboard map to that alert and opens its pin.
  • Changing your password is no longer refused by mistake.
  • Security improvements.