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The recent update to Dive Log on iOS 6.0 is not working the way that it should when Dive Log has not been granted access to Contacts. You should answer "Okay" or "Yes" when Dive Log first asks for permission to access your Contacts. If you find that Dive Log is not showing your Buddies or if you can not add Buddies you should enable access to Contacts for Dive Log. You can take the following steps to regain access to Buddies:

1) Exit Dive Log by hitting the "Home" button on your device
2) Start the Settings app from the home screen
3) Tap on "Privacy"
4) Tap on "Contacts"
5) Make sure that the switch next to "Dive Log" is "On"
6) Start Dive Log again and you should be able to work with Buddies again.

If the above steps to not work, you may need to force Dive Log to restart. Dive Log should restart as a result of the above steps, but if it does not you can take these additional steps:

1) Double tap on the home button (this brings up the application manager)
2) Press and hold on the Dive Log icon until it jiggles
3) Tap the "-" that appears to fully close the app (if you see an "x" instead of a "-" do not press it as you've managed to get to the wrong place).
4) Start Dive log again.

I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. We are still trying to sort out why this does not work in the App Store version of Dive Log (it works fine in our Beta test version) but will get a fix in place as quickly as possible.

Greg

Greg McLaughlin
www.moremobilesoftware.com

Dive Log 1.7.8 was just posted to the App Store and should resolve the issue with Buddies discussed above.

Dive Log is designed to work even when access to Contacts was not granted. However, if you do not grant access to Contacts, the features of Dive Log that take advantage of Buddies being linked to Contacts will not be available (you can not add Buddies from Contacts for example and can only add "unlinked Buddies"). So if you previously had Buddies that were linked to Contacts (i.e. they showed the green "linked" icon in the Buddy list) and now you only see the red "unlinked" icon in the Buddy list then you'll need to enable access to Contacts for Dive Log if you'd like the linked Buddies support back. You can do this with these steps:

1) Exit Dive Log by hitting the "Home" button on your device
2) Start the Settings app from the home screen
3) Tap on "Privacy"
4) Tap on "Contacts"
5) Make sure that the switch next to "Dive Log" is "On"

Giving explicit control to which applications have access to Contacts is a new feature of iOS6. The first time you try (or tried) to use Buddies in Dive Log you should have been asked for permission by iOS. If you answered "no" at that time, then the Buddies in Dive Log will be limited as described above until you explicitly grant access using the steps above.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience the problem in the 1.7.7 release of Dive Log caused.

Cheers,

Greg