- Quick fix for a crasher where bad recordings that had been silently failing to upload in the past were now crashing the sync engine. ---- Previous release notes for our iOS 27 release: - Huge improvements to the recording engine moving Slopes beyond just lifts & runs at resorts: - When you start in uphill/skinning mode, Slopes now shows live ascent stats. - A new dedicated cat ski mode for the backcountry that's tuned specifically for identifying cat rides vs skiing. - In regular downhill ski mode, hiking is detected separately from lifts. Hikes show live ascent stats, and post-recording totals them separate from lifts. - Better suppression of "phantom runs" during small uphill segments of runs. We'd merge them back into the main run in the end, but your run count could look inflated mid-run if you checked your stats. - Improved our "trim the fat" logic we apply to the start/end of runs to better cut out lift-lines & time waiting for friends at the top of the lift. - Slopes now works in landscape on iPhone, with a wider layout that makes the most of the extra room. - The Overview / Analyze / Vitals switcher is back on the playback card instead of only being accessible under the "..." menu. - You can now pinch to zoom into live photos. - Slopes will now use the heart rate zone ranges in Apple Health when available (iOS 27+). - Fixed a case where drive-away detection could fire if you were bombing a run mid-day. - Fixed searching for seasons, where '2025' only matched '2025/25' and not '2024/25'. - Fixed several peak altitude issues: the value in your season summary now matches the activity and the 3D scene shows the right peak. - Fixed "solo days" counting individual solo recordings instead of actual solo days, and a streak day-count that could be off by one for skiers outside GMT. - Fixed snow conditions where "dumping" and "fresh powder" could get swapped. - Offline map fixes: updating a digital map no longer forces a full re-download, "Erase all" now fully clears your paper maps, and we resolved a couple of related crashes. - Fixed an upcoming trip itinerary that could stay stale after you edited it. - Fixed Logbook lifetime stats not counting up on first appearance, and missing run-number indicators during playback on iOS 17/18. - Fixed some cases where the map could get stuck in a loading state, never showing activity data. - Fixed a case where trip attendees could appear duplicated. - Squashed several crashes. Going forward Slopes now requires iOS 18 or watchOS 11.

- Huge improvements to the recording engine moving Slopes beyond just lifts & runs at resorts: - When you start in uphill/skinning mode, Slopes now shows live ascent stats. - A new dedicated cat ski mode for the backcountry that's tuned specifically for identifying cat rides vs skiing. - In regular downhill ski mode, hiking is detected separately from lifts. Hikes show live ascent stats, and post-recording totals them separate from lifts. - Better suppression of "phantom runs" during small uphill segments of runs. We'd merge them back into the main run in the end, but your run count could look inflated mid-run if you checked your stats. - Improved our "trim the fat" logic we apply to the start/end of runs to better cut out lift-lines & time waiting for friends at the top of the lift. - Slopes now works in landscape on iPhone, with a wider layout that makes the most of the extra room. - The Overview / Analyze / Vitals switcher is back on the playback card instead of only being accessible under the "..." menu. - You can now pinch to zoom into live photos. - Slopes will now use the heart rate zone ranges in Apple Health when available (iOS 27+). - Fixed a case where drive-away detection could fire if you were bombing a run mid-day. - Fixed searching for seasons, where '2025' only matched '2025/25' and not '2024/25'. - Fixed several peak altitude issues: the value in your season summary now matches the activity and the 3D scene shows the right peak. - Fixed "solo days" counting individual solo recordings instead of actual solo days, and a streak day-count that could be off by one for skiers outside GMT. - Fixed snow conditions where "dumping" and "fresh powder" could get swapped. - Offline map fixes: updating a digital map no longer forces a full re-download, "Erase all" now fully clears your paper maps, and we resolved a couple of related crashes. - Fixed an upcoming trip itinerary that could stay stale after you edited it. - Fixed Logbook lifetime stats not counting up on first appearance, and missing run-number indicators during playback on iOS 17/18. - Fixed some cases where the map could get stuck in a loading state, never showing activity data. - Fixed a case where trip attendees could appear duplicated. - Squashed several crashes. Going forward Slopes now requires iOS 18 or watchOS 11 (Watch Series 4 is the only hardware dropped as a result of this).

- Lots of UX improvements for the timeline editor: - Added a movement heat-bar to help you set the start/end of lifts/runs and avoid including time in lift lines. - Added labels ("Run #1") and duration to the lift/run blocks. - Live-updating of the lift/run's GPS path on the map while you drag the start or end to a new time. - Higher contrast for the full day's GPS path and the action you're editing. - Switched to Slopes's custom resort maps so it is easier to snap to lifts. - UI tweaks to modernize the screen and bring it more inline with iOS 26. - Slopes will no longer re-open to a recording or resort you looked at days ago. Instead we now only restore the last thing you were doing if it was within the past 10 hours or so. - Improved GPS recovery logic for rescuing briefly-lost location points. - Fixed multiple crashes on launch, including one that was sending some iOS 26 users into a crash loop. - Fixed a couple of crashes that could happen during or at the end of a recording session. - Fixed a crash for Ask to Buy users: if a parent approved an in-app purchase while you were waiting, the app could crash. - Fixed several crashes that could happen seemingly at random — loading resort details, network activity, and smart recording reminders. - Fixed crashes in the daily AR playback scene on iOS 26, usually related to opening and closing it multiple times.

- Drive-away detection: It's not just you: 2.2% of riders this season left Slopes recording while driving away from the resort. Now Slopes catches the vast majority of those, alerting you with a notification + haptics, and then automatically removing the drive-time. We err heavily on the side of caution as it is better to leave a bit of driving than to accidentally clip real skiing, so this only happens when we're very confident and only for end-of-day driving (not mid-day shuttles; that's a whole other problem). As always, the timeline editor is there if you want to tweak what we did. - You can now save recordings even when we didn't detect any runs or lifts. Ruby Hill and other hike-to parks, this one's for you. - Zoom in on the logbook globe and you'll now see resort names under your pins. - Fixed runs and lifts sometimes going missing or getting swapped when cluster detection (how we tell skiing apart from milling around the lodge) got confused about where a pause started or ended. - Fixed the tab bar handle sometimes disappearing during a recording, leaving you no way to bring it back. - Fixed Kosovo and other disputed territories sometimes not showing a flag in the lifetime and season summaries. - Fixed a case where opening a push notification or widget could cause the card UI not to show. - Fixed a few subtle bugs in the recording engine that could lead to the starts/ends of lifts/runs being off by a small amount. - Fixed a case where skiing at Chamonix could sometimes highlight Switzerland in the logbook map. - Fixed a case where the top speed in leaderboards might not match the top speed listed on activities/trips/seasons. - Fixed a case where animations could get disabled.

- Tap a person, country, or resort in your lifetime or season summary to search and view matching activities. - Trail detail cards now show the average slope angle, too. - It's the little things: added a zoom-to-fullscreen transition when tapping on a photo on the map during replay. - Fixed the Pass Value Calculator showing "loading" when no resorts you visited belong to a season pass. - Fixed trail details not loading for runs at Lutsen Mountains (and a few other resorts). - Fixed a race condition where the map never fully loads.

- You can now swipe up and down to collapse and expand the tab bar while you record. - If you expand the tab bar while recording, we don't auto-collapse it anymore for that recording session. - For premium users, when replaying your day run/lift names are no longer low-contrast, making it easier to see which runs you took. - Improved the "what did you tap on the map?" logic to take into account layer ordering. - Fixed your avatar disappearing if you over-scrolled on the replay screen. - Fixed the "+5" text next to the avatars of friends you skied with sometimes being cut off in the logbook. - Fixed the thumbnails on the map for photos you took sometimes being squished. - Fixed the resume button getting squished temporarily when you enable the auto-resume timer. - Fixed downloading offline maps on the account screen for resorts you never looked at the details of before.

- Check out the new Pass Value Calculator on the seasons summary screen to easily see if your season pass saved money vs buying standard lift tickets. - When in dark mode, the sky in 3D mode will now render as night time. - If you update your email, we'll validate it to help avoid typos like @gmail.c9m. - Working on tracking down 0-or-low calorie estimates from Apple Watch. A speculative fix is in here, but also a lot more logging to help us track it down.

- You can now remove multiple resorts from offline storage at once. - Added information on which recordings have not sync'd to the server in the dialog warning you about that. - If you try to troubleshoot sync issues, we'll temporarily turn on extra logging to help support track down the issue. - Fixed some text spacing in dialogs when a resort uses OSM for its ski data. - Fixed your avatar not showing on the map during replays for free users.

- Lowered memory usage when viewing replays in AR, or sharing days with the 3D share card. - Fixed a race condition that could cause a blank tab to show if switching between them quickly. - Fixed the elevation graphs at some resorts (mostly in Canada) where MapBox's digital elevation model had some bad smoothing applied to it, leading to an almost stair-step effect in the data. This lead to incorrect elevation (+/- 2 meters) and incorrect slope detection at affected resorts. - Fixed a race condition where the logbook could show "202X/2X" for the season and empty, instead of loading your data. - Fixed the recording engine getting stuck in a corrupted state, requiring a reinstall to remove a bad recording. - Fixed your lifetime distance being listed off by a factor of 1,000 on the post-recording add-a-note screen. - Fixed a case where we might not use a GPX file's speed values. - Fixed a case where we would fail to import GPX data if the timestamp had more than 3 decimal places.

- Refreshed design for the account screen with a lot of UX improvements. - Fixed the "VS" share card missing stats for a person. - Fixed the upsell screen not being scrollable on smaller phone screens. - Fixed the start recording button disappearing if you switch tabs back-to-back rapidly.

- Sync your stats between Slopes and the Ikon Pass app! The sync works both ways, so your Slopes recordings will appear in the Ikon Pass app and in the Ikon Pass leaderboards, and Ikon Pass tracked sessions will appear in Slopes with all our detailed analytics.

- Offline Maps now work with day passes! If you have at least 1 day pass waiting on your account then you'll be able to download maps for offline. Offline maps just won't be leveraged until you activate that day pass. - When Find My Friends is enabled, you location will now update a bit more frequently for your friends to see. Still battery friendly, though! - When Find My Friends is enabled and you have Slopes on-screen watching your friends, Slopes will poll the server for location updates a bit more frequently. - Fixed a bug introduced last week that was preventing the logbook from showing new data or responding to deleting data. - Fixed a case where the "via Watch" indicator might get stuck on-screen even after you end recording.

- When recording at a resort that supports live lift status, status will auto-refresh a few times a minute while your screen is unlocked and Slopes is sitting in the foreground. - Improved handling of GPX imports when the timezone data is missing. We'll now try to look that up for you. - Fixed a case where a failed import would be endlessly retried every time you launched the app. - (We hope) fixed a rare case where trying to share an activity could crash.

- The tab bar now automatically minimizes when you record as we noticed it was confusing a lot of new users, not realizing everything you need is on the recording screen (nearby friends, resort map, live status, etc). Don't worry, you can tap the arrow at the bottom to bring it back if you need to get to other parts of the app. - If you're on the manage friends screen and you accept a friend invite, it'll refresh to show the new friend right away. - Fixed a bug where you could use light-mode maps in dark-mode as a free user. - Fixed a case where photos might not load in the logbook until you scroll. - Fixed sharing from the timeline screen. - Fixed a crash that could occur after you close Slopes for the day. You never would see it, but it bothered me it was crashing.

- Big overhaul of our GPS filter, which will do a much better job removing bigger temporary spikes in bad data, especially around when you start recording, when you pause/resume, or when you've been inside a building for a while. This should also help with altitude spikes we've seen with Apple Watch Ultra 2 and newer (like when your Watch thinks you are 2,000ft in the air!). - This update will go back and look for obviously-bad altitude data and try to fix it retroactively with the new filter. - Improved the logic around lift-line detection and "waiting for your snowboarder friend to strap in" pauses at the top, improving how we trim lifts & runs to include only active time. - Switched from KM -> Meters for displaying season and lifetime vertical when in metric. - Added additional messaging to help make it clear that offline maps aren't available with day passes, only subscriptions. - Improvements to the Highlights UX, like hiding the buttons / chrome when you tap and hold to pause on a card. - Added new import/export options under Account -> Integrations & Tools. You've always been able to get to your data via the Files app or iTunes File Sharing, but this new UI is a bit more obvious. Additionally, the import option allows for easier bulk importing without mucking around in the Files app. - Fixed the map not zooming in on the compare screen if you got like 6 or 7 runs deep. - Fixed a case where going to share a photo wouldn't auto-apply the photo as the background in the share cards. - Fixed photos not loading when scrolling through the day's slideshow super fast. - Fixed a case where larger logbooks might hang loading if you had photo integration turned on. - Fixed imports failing when the locations were not pre-sorted by time (...like they should be). - Fixed imports failing when all locations have a speed of 0 or -1. - Fixed a timezone issue that caused some recordings on Jan 1 to show in the 2025 Highlights. - Fixed trip cells in the logbook formatting your recorded vertical for the trip as time instead of distance.

- Improved the login flow when you previously made an account using Sign in with Google on another platform. - Fixed a case where messages / errors wouldn't show while trying to log in or sign up. - Fixed a crash that could happen when opening / closing cards quickly. - Fixed a background crash that could happen after you finish using Slopes for the day.

- Redesigned the start recording screen - made it clearer for new users how to start recording, and exposes a new quick-settings screen. - Fixed an alert showing up if you tried to enable Find My Friends without an account that just said "Help". - Fixed a possible crash when saving an activity. - Fixed a crash when trying to hit the share button when viewing photos from a day's recording. - Fixed the battery warning for Watch popping up when it shouldn't. - Fixed the prompt for setting up Find my Friends while recording not doing anything when you tap it. - Fixed the downhill distance saved to HealthKit being slightly less than what you see in Slopes (not retroactive).

- You can now Double Tap (tap index finger + thumb together) twice to start a workout on Watch on watchOS 26. - Changed the ski / snowboard / etc icons to buttons on the start recording screen for Watch, giving bigger tap targets than just the start button. - Fixed error in Instagram when sharing to your feed or a DM. - Fixed importing when the GPS data has duplicate locations back-to-back. - Fixed the map of your recording not updating if you made an edit in the timeline editor. - Resort forecasts will now match your imperial vs metric preference inside Slopes, instead of always using device settings.

- Big improvements to GPX imports & filtering out of bad GPS data that caused bogus speeds. - The 2025.14 fix for the 0 duration 0 calories workout saves to Apple Health worked in our testing, but turns out we didn't totally squash it. Once more, with feeling! - Fixed a case where the logbook might get stuck in a half-loaded state while recording. - Various UI & animation fixes for iOS 26.1.

- Share card saves to IG Stories now scale to fill the story by default, and provide a background color incase you resize them. - Fixed workouts on Watch being saved with 0 calories and 0 duration. - Fixed the Watch app sometimes not showing your current heart rate. - Fixed the resume timer not working on iPhone when recording via Watch. - Fixed a case where the 3D mountain share card might not render. - Fixed a random crash that could occur on your iPhone after opening the Watch app. - Fixed a crash on macOS when trying to use a Slopes widget. - Fixed a crash when viewing details about a resort. - Fixed a crash when trying to re-import .Slopes files. - Fixed a crash when launching the app with an unfinished recording.

- Rebuilt our share cards, in a new vertical format (finally, eh?) with new modern designs, including a new transparent card is perfect for using in a third-party app to overlay on top of your videos. Try sharing your day / trip / season / and lifetime stats to see the new looks. - Reworked how the "Always Record with Watch" preference works (which starts recordings on your Watch when you hit start on your iPhone). We used to have it on by default, but lots of people don't use their Watch for fitness tracking (like older Watches with aging batteries). So now it's off by default. However, if you recorded a lot with your Watch last season we'll set it to on for you when you update so it keeps working as expected. - If you enable Find my Friends on iPhone, that preference will sync over to your Watch so you don't have to turn it on there. - Fixed the paper map button not getting disabled even we don't have a paper map for the resort. - Fixed some missing placeholder text when the season reset and no one on your leaderboard has recorded yet. - Fixed the look of the "no results" placeholder when exploring a resort and we don't have any lifts / runs for it.

- Fixed a crash when trying to save off manual calorie estimates when you record on iOS.

- iOS 26 / watchOS 26 refresh for Liquid Glass: - Slopes uses Apple's Liquid Glass throughout the app, from map overlays to content cards, letting the map's content shine through. - Many cards have more robust actions available, either via the top toolbar or the more button ("...") at the top of the card. - The replay screen got a lot of polish, simplifying the display and adding a new speed heatmap legend. - On Watch, the start screen has a new more modern look. - On iOS 26, Slopes uses the new Apple Health Workout API: - Allows iOS to finally support Auto-Resume from pause like Watch has. - Supports AirPods 3's heart rate sensors. - At supported ski resorts, Slopes can show up in your Smart Stack, prompting you to start recording. - The resort widgets on Watch support direct configuration now, allowing you to track multiple resorts. Note: if you had a resort widget on Watch in the past, you'll need to reconfigure it using this new setup. - Refreshed the "How'd you stack up?" block on the daily summary card to match the more modern look from trip cards. - During the pre-season, at resorts Slopes supports lift/run status for, Slopes will no longer dim all the closed runs at a resort that's closed. - Added Chinese (traditional) translations, thanks to those that helped! Chinese simplified is 71% done, if you'd like to help head to Account -> Translate. - Fixed the "also accepts" for passes at a resort not always showing when it should. - Fixed the pause / resume controls not always showing on iOS when recording on Watch. - Fixed the compare screen not showing speed gradients.

- Fixed a case where purchases might look like they finished, but behind the scenes they didn't.

- New onboarding experience with a bit more hand-holding to make sure people are set up and less confused on "what do I do next?" - Streamlined the Sign Up / Log In dialog to make it even faster to log in via Sign in with Apple. - Fixed a case where the "Add Friends" button might be missing on the friends tab. Slopes now requires iOS 17 and watchOS 10. As always, if you can't update, you can always access older versions of Slopes via your purchase history in the App Store.