Escape pod malfunction

I'm currently in the midst of an endless run. When i get bored or killed, I'll try to duplicate it.

What I did was put the escape pod on my flagship. When it blew up, i could see myself escaping. I clicked on one of my wing ships and saw a new icon that i assumed was a "choose this ship to teleport to" icon so i clicked on it. At that moment it froze.

I did close the app and restart it which placed me at the beginning of that battle. I still lost my flagship and teleported with the same results.

Am I doing it right?

Also, I see there's a new update on the app store that showed up yesterday but i haven't downloaded it yet. I saw a post that claimed someone lost all their progress when they downloaded the latest update so it led me to not updating at this time.