# Friend & couple widget app for your Home Screen Updated 11 October 2026 Sea Pals’ Friend widget puts a chosen friend’s island on your iPhone Home Screen, with their local time, note and latest shared camera photo. Your Doori lives there too. From the widget, you can boop it, send rain or poke your friend. ## Friends widgets for iPhone Choose a friend for the Friend widget on iPhone. Their island appears with local time and weather, and their note when there is one. ## A boop, a poke or a little rain The Friend widget’s buttons work without opening the app on iPhone. Boop your shared Doori, poke your friend or send rain to their island. Doori lives in the Friend widget; the Group widget also has a boop for a lagoon’s Doori. ## A friends photo widget app The app’s One camera sends a photo to one friend or to your friends who can receive it. The latest photo from the friend chosen for a Friend widget appears there, on iPhone. Letter friends need 5 qualifying text messages from each side and the receiver’s yes to photos from that person. ## Island, Friend, Sea and Group These Home Screen widgets are on iPhone. Island shows your own island, Sea shows bottles and trip news, and Group shows a chosen lagoon with its shared Doori. Friend is the widget for one chosen friend, their note and their latest camera photo. ## A little sea on your Lock Screen On iPhone, Lock Screen widgets show Doori, bottles at sea or bottles on the beach, and a Live Activity follows Mochi’s bottle trip. iPhone also has a camera control for taking a photo from the Lock Screen; sending continues in the app after you unlock. ## A widget app for couples who already know each other Connect with your partner by link or code and choose each other for the Friend widget. A photo or a little rain can be a small hello between cities. ### Which friend widgets are there? Island, Friend, Sea and Group Home Screen widgets are available on iPhone. iPhone also has Lock Screen widgets for Doori, bottles at sea and the beach. ### Is it on Android? Yes. Sea Pals is on iPhone, Android and the web, and its Home Screen widgets work on Android too. Lock Screen widgets are on iPhone. ### Can anyone send a photo to my Home Screen? Only friends can send camera photos. For letter friends, both sides need 5 qualifying text messages and you must allow photos from that person; the Friend widget shows the latest photo from your chosen friend. ### Can couples use it? Yes. Connect with a partner you already know by link or code, then choose each other for the Friend widget. ### Can I follow a bottle’s trip outside the app? Yes. iPhone shows Mochi’s trip in a Live Activity. This depends on your phone’s activity settings. ### Can I send photos while my iPhone is locked? The iPhone camera control lets you take a photo from the Lock Screen. 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