• Automatic Exports — Settings › Backup & Restore now offers daily and weekly automatic exports of your timeline data to iCloud Drive, in GPX or JSON format. Files appear at iCloud Drive › Arc Timeline › Exports › Daily/Weekly. Exports run when your phone is connected to power.
• Place search expanded to match country, city, and street address fields, in addition to place name
• Visits without an assigned place now show their street address when available, instead of “Unknown Place”
• URL scheme arctimeline:// for launching the app from Shortcuts, automation, and other apps
Thanks Matt. It’s getting better almost by the day. I bit the bullet today and removed the old app: I was increasingly frustrated by its inability to track as accurately and easily as the new one.
I’m still keen for the merge places function you had on the old one.
Two other things I realised also aren’t yet present in the new app: widgets, and Swarm integration. (The Google Maps integration finds most locations, but very occasionally there is something in Swarm that’s not in Google.)
And, I couldn’t find in the forum, and can’t remember if you’ve previously said, is Arc Recorder necessary for Arc Timeline 4?
Maybe the export function can be more flexible, not only wait for the app export automaticly. In the old app, users can manually export any motion session to other apps, facilitating user sharing, and can also directly use gpx in other apps. Additionally, it is hoped to add manual monthly and annual exports functions.
Thank you for your hard work, i’m looking forward to your reply.
Lobbying for the export to image feature, not to be a pest, but so you have a pulse on the people, so to speak. I bit the bullet in the other direction and reverted back to the prior Arc only because correcting the timeline in two apps got tedious.
And a +1 to the request to be able to export any motion segment! Thank you for all your work!
Same feel here. The old app feels so old now. In principle it’s the same thing, but the data quality difference is sometimes stark, and it’s so slow!
Yep, coming. Ticket number is BIG-153, filed for hopefully the v1.2 update, high priority.
This is also filed. BIG-140 for the current item widget (so mostly the same thing as the old app’s, but I’ll try to do it a bit better this time). And BIG-23, which is for a speculative “mini timeline list” widget that I felt like I wanted at some point. I still like the idea. BIG-140 is filed as high priority, while 23 is low priority, because I’m the only one who’s expressed any interest yet
This one’s unfortunately not coming. Foursquare have kind of taken themselves out of the race. They raised their API pricing, while at the same time their database quality was in steady decline. They’re no longer competitive, and Arc has to be careful about costs - only a small, niche project, with limited resources.
Not strictly necessary, but it will make a comeback eventually.
Arc Timeline 4 records much more reliably, with far fewer terminations by iOS. Most of the time it can run happily for weeks uninterrupted. But iOS does reserve the right to terminate apps at any time for any reason, and it does have moods. So there’s always a risk of data gaps.
Arc Recorder will make a comeback, to again fill that role of protection from data gaps. But yeah for now it doesn’t act as fallback buddy for the new app, only the old. So for now it’s of no use. In a month or two though? It should be back on the scene. I’ll post about it on the forum then.
This feature is coming back! Ticket number is BIG-396, filed as high priority, and for one of the next feature releases.
These are unfortunately too big, so we can’t do them. It’s too much data exported in one file, so the app is likely to be terminated if we try, resulting in data gaps. Daily and weekly is as much as we can do for now. iPhones have their limits!
