Afrilingua: African Social

About Afrilingua: African Social

Two things this update adds that only the app can do — share into Aura from anywhere on your phone, and offer the photos you shoot at an event back to its album. Plus everything from the last three weeks. SHARING • Share a photo, video, PDF, pass or contact into Aura from any app — it used to take links and text only. Aura reads what you sent and offers what to do with it, best guess first: add it to your calendar, start a shop from it, or post it. THE NIGHT'S PHOTOS • Photos you take with your own camera during an event are offered back to that event's album next time you open Aura. You pick what goes in — nothing uploads on its own. • Every phone at your event, one album: scan the poster, tap once, shoot. No app, no account. • The camera fills the screen, with the shutter under your thumb. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED • Open the app and land on What's on — look around, open an event, claim or buy a ticket with just an email. Signing in is one tap away whenever you want it. • Ask Aura, play in the arcade and use the translator before you have an account. SHOPS AND THE MARKET • Set up your shop from a photo of it. Point your camera at your sign, menu board or price list — or paste your Instagram — and your shop comes back filled in: name, hours, address, phone, and every item waiting as a draft. • Big shops are shoppable now — search the shelf and browse by aisle. • Pickup or delivery, per shop, right in your bag — real addresses, with the delivery price worked out before you pay. • Claim your shop, bring your website's products in with one tap, or hand a shop to its real owner — nothing changes hands until they accept. • Show buyers the walk in: film yourself walking from the building's entrance to your door and it becomes a set of photos they can follow. SHOP RUNS • Post a grocery list from an African store and a runner from the community shops it and brings it to your door. Your card is held, never charged, until it arrives. • Runners set their own rates and can announce a trip they're already making — "H-Mart, Saturday 2pm, 4 seats" — for people to put their lists on. ARCADE • Every game takes the whole screen now, on a poster shelf you can see the moment you open the arcade. • Nobody waits alone — the arcade shows who's looking for a game right now, and one tap seats you with them. • Play each other at an event: every event page opens the Arcade. • New games: Solitaire, Weaver, Go-Slow with real Lagos traffic under it, Ludo practice, and Weekend XI — pick eleven Premier League players before Friday. AURA • Ask Aura from anywhere — a quiet bar above the tabs, there whenever you pause. • Aura can set your theme: "switch to dark mode", "make my accent gold". • Edited a photo? Press and hold to see your original. Nothing replaces it. • Your morning brief arrives for everyone now — weather, what's on today, orders waiting and what's due. CIRCLES AND LANGUAGE • Move a group over from WhatsApp, Telegram or GroupMe with its history intact. Nobody is added or messaged — names wait as seats until each person takes one. • Contribute to African language data — transcribe real Yorùbá speech or record your own voice, into an open public-domain corpus. FIXED • The app stopped randomly restarting itself — photo-heavy screens were running the phone out of memory. • The keyboard stopped covering what you were typing. • Confirmation pop-ups work again — every "are you sure?" was invisible, so the button you pressed did nothing. • Losing signal no longer sends you back to the "pick a handle" screen. • Checkout works on imported shop items. We also updated our Privacy Policy: Afrilingua now uses masked session replays to find and fix problems — never what you type or read. Masking happens on your device, recordings are keyed to a random id, and they delete after 30 days.