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Orange Beach Companion
Check beach flags, rip-current risk, surf, tides, safety alerts, and live cameras for Orange Beach.
Available on iPhone
- iPhone
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About Orange Beach Companion
Beach Flags, Tides & Cams
Orange Beach Companion is a simple beach dashboard for Orange Beach, Alabama. Check current beach flag status, rip current risk, surf, wind, water temperature, tides, sunrise and sunset, safety alerts, and live beach cameras in one clean iPhone app.
The app uses official and public sources where available, shows source labels for each condition, and clearly marks cached or unavailable data. Beach and weather conditions can change quickly, so always follow official beach flags, lifeguards, posted signs, and local emergency instructions.
Highlights
What Orange Beach Companion does best.
- 01
Current beach flags and rip-current risk
- 02
Surf, wind, water temperature, tides, and daylight
- 03
Safety alerts and live beach cameras
How it works
Step by step.
- Open the dashboard before heading out.
- Review available conditions and their source labels.
- Confirm conditions with official flags, lifeguards, posted signs, and local instructions.
Privacy at a glance
What happens to your data.
Orange Beach Companion presents fixed-location public beach information without requiring an account or the device’s location.
FAQ
Common questions
Why is weather, tide, sun, or marine information stale or unavailable?
The app depends on public providers and network access. Providers can delay, revise, rate-limit, move, or stop a feed. Refresh, check your connection, and compare important conditions with the official source. Cached information may be shown during a temporary outage.
Why will a webcam or linked video not play?
Webcams and videos are operated by outside providers and can be offline, geographically restricted, changed, or incompatible. Try again later. Provider pages may keep their own cookies or website storage inside the app’s web view.
Can I rely on the app alone for swimming, boating, surf, or storm decisions?
No. It is informational only. Conditions can change quickly and data can be delayed or wrong. Follow beach flags, lifeguards, local authorities, National Weather Service alerts, marine advisories, and emergency instructions.
Who handles App Store billing or refund requests?
Apple processes App Store purchases and eligible refund requests and does not provide Orange Beach Companion with your full payment-card details. Use Apple’s Report a Problem service or Apple Support for a billing or refund request. Contact Orange Beach Companion support for an app-function problem.
How do I check or clear stale condition data?
Pull to refresh, then inspect the displayed source, timestamp, freshness badge, and any provider error. In Settings > Data Debug, choose Clear cached conditions. Reset source order separately if priorities are wrong. A failed refresh can reuse cached values without a hard expiry, so cached information may be older than the label suggests. Verify critical conditions with official alerts and on-site authorities.
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