Until Arrival is intentionally small. Most questions are answered in the FAQ below. If you don't find what you need, send a note.
Tap the plus button. Type the airline code and flight number (e.g. UA 1432), the date, and the traveler's name (Mom, Sarah, etc.). Tap Continue — the app looks the flight up and shows a small preview of the route and times. Tap Add to manifest. The widget appears with that flight's certificate the next time it refreshes.
Long-press the Lock Screen or Home Screen, then add the Until Arrival widget. Three sizes are available — small (luggage tag), medium (boarding pass), and large (full Certificate of Arrival). Lock Screen complications are also supported in rectangular, inline, and circular forms.
When the flight is in the air, a Live Activity appears on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island showing the current state and ETA. It updates as the flight progresses and dismisses when the flight lands.
It works for any commercial flight in the AeroDataBox database, which covers the great majority of scheduled airlines worldwide. Charter and private flights are not supported.
When you tap Continue, the app looks the flight up and shows a route preview before saving. If nothing matches, you'll see "No flight found" inline — adjust the airline, number, or date and try again.
Each device subscribes independently. Both phones receive the silent pushes and refresh their widgets. The server treats them as separate subscribers; nothing is linked across devices except through your own iCloud sync.
Yes, optionally. In Settings → Notifications you can toggle landed alerts on or off. Default is on. The notification is short and quiet: "Mom — Arrived."
The widget keeps showing the certificate with the ARRIVED stamp until the morning after the flight lands, then clears automatically. The flight stays in your Manifest of Arrivals as a record.
The list inside the app of every flight you've added, past and present. Active flights are at the top; past flights below. Tap any one to see its full Certificate of Arrival and the chronological log of status events.
Yes, if you're signed into iCloud. Your manifest, traveler names, and flight history sync across your iPhone and iPad through your private CloudKit container. Apple encrypts it; sthreelabs has no access.
You technically can, but Until Arrival is built around the experience of waiting for someone else. If you're flying, Flighty is the better app for that — it does gate changes, baggage, seat alerts, and the rest. Until Arrival is the calmer companion product for the person you're flying to.
Flight data comes from AeroDataBox, which sources from real-time airline feeds. Occasionally a flight's status lags behind reality (typically by a few minutes). If a flight you added shows as Pending for hours, the airline / date combination probably didn't resolve — try removing and re-adding.
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