• Merge duplicate places. If the same place has ended up recorded twice, open either one and choose Merge Places from the menu. (BIG-153)
• Reduced unnecessary overnight location activity. (BIG-624)
• Improved GPX import removal. (BIG-645)
• The map scale bar in the Places tab now follows the card, matching the Timeline tab. (BIG-113)
Great news on the release, sad face to see that Arc Recorder has slipped again.
Still very much alive, and it hasn’t lost any standing (BIG-156, High priority, with the demand on it counted — your voice included). The honest picture is that each recent release has ended up consumed by fixes for users actively hitting problems right now, and Recorder support keeps losing that particular race. It’s a prioritisation traffic jam, not a change of heart.
Rather than name a third release and risk a third sad face, I’ll skip the date this time. It’s near the top of the queue and it isn’t drifting down.
Not sure if it was this or the last update, but my last few subway rides were surprisingly accurate. I appreciate all the work you’ve been doing!
Also low priority but just putting out there again that it would be great to be able to toggle off the purple place badges and/or eventually see the activity maps back. One of my favorite parts of the old app was going to yearly and just looking at the lines and paths on their own. It was very inspiring
@twilldre That’s genuinely good to hear about the subway rides — and useful beyond the compliment. Underground recording got a substantial tuning pass in 1.5.0, and reports from real transit use are how we know which cities it’s landing in. NYC reading as improved goes in the bank alongside the others (some cities are proving harder — that work is ongoing, BIG-607). More improvement on this front is coming.
On the yearly activity maps: that’s tracked as BIG-355 (per-activity map views on the Activity tab), and it’s in the pool that release headliners get picked from. Your “just looking at the lines and paths on their own” framing is exactly what it’s for — and we’ve logged your ask on the ticket, which nudges it up the demand ranks. These things really do get weighed by who’s asking.
On the place badges: honestly, no plans for a toggle there for now. Map layer controls want screen space to live in, and on iPhone screens even a well-placed set of toggles clutters fast — Google Maps shows where that road leads. We’d rather hold the clean end of that trade-off on phone screens. It changes on bigger screens though, and worth saying: when the long-rumoured folding iPhone arrives, we’ll be supporting the larger screen size, and that genuinely opens the door for richer map views than a phone screen can carry.
Meanwhile, for the “just the lines” itch there’s something that exists today: Arc Timeline Reader (GitHub - gordon-williams/arc-timeline-reader: Arc Timeline Diary Reader - Browser-based viewer for Arc Timeline GPS data · GitHub), built by @zzGordon from this very forum. It reads Arc’s JSON exports and does heatmaps, activity-type filters, dark mode variants and more — likely everything you’re after and then some, and it’s in active development.