Locktone Support

Welcome. This page is the support contact for Locktone by Catford Labs. Use it for how to play, bug reports, and App Store review notes. The same guide is in the app under HELP on the menu and pause screens.

How to play

Locktone is a landscape iPhone arcade dogfighter. You sit in the canopy. Hostiles move in world space around you.

Quick start

1. START a run, or DAILY for today’s seeded sector.
2. FLY with the left stick — pitch and yaw. You can loop; there is no floor.
3. AIM / FIRE on the right pad. Hold to shoot. Put a hostile in the reticle until the tone goes solid — that is a lock. Locked shots hit harder.
4. Tap a radar blip to NAV toward it. Moving the fly stick cancels nav.
5. When the pack is gone, pick an upgrade. The ship jumps to the next named sector.

Boost, flares, and six

• BOOST (under the stick) lunges, widens the view, and kicks a six off the tail. Short burn, then recharge.
• FLARE is the dedicated countermeasure. Pop it when you see ON YOUR SIX.
• CHECK SIX means something is behind you. Turn or boost before they settle.
• Held fire fills HEAT. At full heat the guns lock out. Let go to cool.

Controller

DualSense and MFi extended gamepads: left stick fly, right stick aim, R2 fire, A / R1 boost, B / L1 flare, Menu pause.

Pause and menu

PAUSE is on the HUD. Resume, toggle haptics or music, or MENU to abandon the run. The current fight is not saved. Best wave and daily best are kept on the device (and Game Center if you are signed in).

What to include

To help us respond faster, please include:

• iPhone model and iOS version
• Locktone version (0.1 and build number from Settings → Locktone, if shown)
• Whether the issue is lock, six, flare, jump, daily, Game Center, or a controller
• The steps that reproduce the problem

Common topics

• Fire pad feels dead while the stick is still. Hold the right pad; it is a UIKit surface so a still thumb still shoots.
• No Game Center scores. Sign in to Game Center on the device. Boards locktone.best_wave and locktone.daily_wave must exist in App Store Connect.
• Landscape only. Locktone does not have an iPad or portrait layout.

Privacy

See our Privacy Policy. Privacy questions: support@catfordlabs.com with subject Locktone Privacy.

Response time

We aim to reply within a few business days.