{"id":872053,"date":"2026-10-05T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872053\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:56:11","slug":"arlnows-tip-form-and-mobile-app-get-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872053\/","title":{"rendered":"ARLnow\u2019s tip form and mobile app get upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arlnow.com\/category\/around-town\/\" class=\"block px-4 no-underline mb-4 text-sans text-md font-sans font-semibold text-posts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Around Town<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tPublished October 5, 2026 at 2:30PM<br \/>\n\t\t | <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tUpdated October 5, 2026 at 4:15PM\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/app-and-tip-form-white-bg-600x450.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Multi-device mockup of the ARL Now app: left phone shows a news feed, center phone displays the Scanner with traffic alerts, right panel shows a tip form with a text box and buttons\" decoding=\"async\"   title=\"ARLnow app and new tip form | ARLnow\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tARLnow app and new tip form\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now easier and more secure to send tips to ARLnow.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve launched a new tip form on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arlnow.com\/about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">About<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arlnow.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Contact<\/a> pages, as well as on the forthcoming updated version of our mobile app on <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/arlnow\/id6779989500\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.arlnow.app&amp;hl=en_US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new form also includes an option for attaching photos and video to your tips, with much higher file size limits, allowing witnesses to news events to quickly send us multimedia from the scene without fumbling around with Google Drive or similar services.<\/p>\n<p>This is just one of the newsroom tools that we\u2019ve been working to improve for ARLnow and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alxnow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sister<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffxnow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sites<\/a>. We\u2019ve also been working to improve the transcription accuracy of our public safety radio monitor and broaden the set of local outlets across the region whose reporting we monitor and link to.<\/p>\n<p>ARLnow has sought to make our internal tools available in various ways for readers. For instance, our neighborhood map tool is <a href=\"https:\/\/map.arlnow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">publicly available online<\/a>, a curated version of our scanner feed is available in our mobile app, and we\u2019re planning to add a regional feed (similar to our <a href=\"https:\/\/wshnow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSHnow site<\/a>) to the next version of the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around Town Published October 5, 2026 at 2:30PM | Updated October 5, 2026 at 4:15PM ARLnow app and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[31807,19377,165,74],"class_list":["post-872053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-announcement","tag-around-town","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}