Version 2024.512 March 2024- Added a battery safety net feature on Watch. If you hit 3% or less battery while recording Slopes will stop recording and try to send the data to your iPhone before your battery fully dies. If you start recording on Watch in low power mode (10% battery or less) Slopes will disable this safety net and trust you know what you're doing.
- When starting recording on your Watch via iPhone, Slopes will now warn you if your Watch battery is less than 50% and give you the option to start on your iPhone instead.
- Improved our "resort grouping", which helps us track resorts that are connected, to allow us to exclude certain resorts from the automatic renaming that came along with being in a group. Example: Alpine Meadows was being shown as "Palisades." Your recordings will retroactively fix themselves when you update.
- If your Watch or iPhone battery dies mid-recording, and you don't charge your device + re-launch Slopes until the next morning, you'll now have the option to recover + save the unfinished recording from the previous day.
- If your Watch battery dies and you start a new recording a few days later without recovering + saving that previous recording, when reaching out to customer support we can now grab those unfinished GPS logs from your Watch.
- Fixed the memories widget not updating after a trip is over.
- Fixed (hopefully, because TiMeZoNeS) upcoming trips sometimes showing as off by one day for the start or end.
- Fixed (hopefully, because TiMeZoNeS) the memories widget and logbook showing "0 days" for a trip.
- Fixed the order of trip destinations not following the set itinerary dates.
- Fixed runs and lifts not showing up on iPad when replaying on the timeline..
Version 2024.110 January 2024- Support for displaying grooming status, and being able to filter by it, at live status supported resorts.
- While recording at live status supported resorts, the "Live Status" button now opens Slopes's resort search defaulted to open lifts / runs. No need to make you wait for a slow web site to load when we have the data locally now.
- Similarly, added a "What's Open" button on the resort details screen at supported resorts so you can quickly jump to the list of open lifts / runs.
- If you pick split boarding as an activity, it will now save to "snowboarding" in Apple Health instead of "downhill ski.".
Version 2023.1122 September 2023- Fixed the Lifetime Stats widget having a white border on iOS 16.
- Fixed the Memoji picker graying out your contact card as an option when you have a photo.
- Fixed a crash on the iPhone that could occur right after starting recording on your Watch.
- Fixed a crash on the compare screen.
- Fixed a crash when tapping the notification on your iPhone that it received your day's recording from your Watch.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if you start/stop recording fast on a poor cellular connection.
- Fixed a crash related to importing recordings made with other apps / devices.
- Fixed a crash the 3D view on the timeline screen..
Version 2023.910 August 2023- Improved retry logic for resolving what resort you're at when the initial lookup fails because you're offline.
- Fixed resort logos sometimes not showing on the resort listing screen.
- Fixed the "enable smart reminders?" prompt showing too much.
- Fixed a crash on the Mac version..
Version 2023.802 June 2023- Fix for multiple Live Activities showing at once.
- Fix for an iOS 15 crash.
What's new in 2023.7:
New Watch App (!!) - New (but familiar) UI focusing on bigger text and glanceability, making it easy to read the main stats (vertical, distance, speed, heart rate, time). - Spin the Digital Crown to focus in on any one of those stats. For example see your current elevation + tallest run when checking vertical, your heart rate zone + max HR when checking heart rate, or a full mini-timeline breakdown of lifts vs runs when checking time. - The nearby friends screen now shows the direction / distance to all friends in a single list, so you can just scroll vs having to tap on a friend to get those details. - Much stronger haptics, more like the Timer app, when auto-resume kicks in. - Improved reliability of starting a workout with the Action button.
New, faster, start recording screen for both iPhone and Watch. - Don't worry about picking what resort you're at anymore. Slopes will figure all that in the background for you now (assuming you have cell reception). - Instead, just pick your activity type. You can pick from ski, snowboard, monoski, splitboard, sitski, telemark, and more. - It's also now more obvious how to set it as a backcountry activity where you want credit for the uphill touring / skinning. - As part of the new auto-resort tagging, multi-resort support is here (!!). This is big for European users; for example hopping from Méribel to Courchevel will tag the activity as "Les 3 Vallées" instead of just Méribel.
Unified recording experience; Slopes on iPhone can now control the Watch app. - If you try to start recording via phone while you have the Watch app installed it'll just automatically start it there for you. - You can pause / resume / finish recordings on your Watch via iPhone now, too. - While recording on Watch, you can have a Live Activity running on your iPhone. This will show automatically if you start Slopes via your phone, but if you start via Watch directly you'll need to open the iOS app once to get it going (apps must be in the foreground to start a live activity). - Improvements to Smart Reminders when you have both an iPhone and Apple Watch. It isn't as perfect as I'd like it yet, but it should cut down on a lot of the useless "you're near a lift" reminders when you're already recording. I hope.
Other improvements:
- Skinning / touring in the backcountry will now add the uphill segments to Apple Health including speed and elevation gain.
- Interactive maps for resorts will no longer get stuck on satellite map mode.
- I got inspired by Apollo's new retro iOS app alt icon; I just had to envision Slopes for iPhoneOS 2.0 with a new alt icon.
With this update, Slopes now requires iOS 15 / watchOS 8. This doesn't drop support for any devices as iOS 15 supports all the same hardware iOS 14 did..
Version 2023.604 March 2023- You can now remove your profile picture and revert back to just your initials.
- Fixed "Mordor maps" - times when the 3d map would look all jagged and wrong.
- Fixed the "More" button in the share card generator not working sometimes..
Version 2023.507 February 2023- Fix the Watch complication not always updating when you get 1k more vertical while recording.
- Possible fix for a crash on Watch because Slopes was using too much CPU..
Version 2023.507 February 2023- Fix the Watch complication not always updating when you get 1k more vertical while recording.
- Possible fix for a crash on Watch because Slopes was using too much CPU..
Version 2022.2020 December 2022- New app icon for Premium users from Basic Apple Guy.
- Fixed a case where your avatar might show up in two places on the map while recording.
- Fixed exporting GPX files as "Single Track".
- Fixed trail maps + ski patrol info not showing on your phone while recording via your watch.
- Fixed a crash on Apple Watch related to the heart rate graph..
Version 2022.1224 September 2022- Noted in the UI that the new watchOS complications require watchOS 9 or newer.
- Fixed an issue transferring debug logs from Watch to iPhone.
- Fixed a crash during recording.
- Fixed a version migration blocking the UI for longer than expected..
Version 2022.1028 May 2022- Winter is here in the Southern Hemisphere, and we've been busy prepping. We've added digital trail maps for all resorts in Australia and New Zealand including Perisher, Craigieburn Valley, and more.
- Fixed an issue with Smart Reminders where it might not prioritize the right lifts as ones worth reminding to record at (since we are limited to ~10 lifts by the system, we have to pick the most popular lifts people start at).
- There's been a troublesome Watch bug causing a crash when you pause sometimes that I've been trying to track down all season. This update might fix it.
- Some subtle UI animation tweaks to things that kept me up at night..
Version 2022.812 March 2022No more "text me when you get here!"
- When you're recording with Find Me turned on, can now get a notification when a friend also starts recording with Find Me on at the same resort.
- Similarly, if you enable that, you'll also get a notification when you start recording if friends are already recording there.
- Your device will now more quickly update to show new friends that are recording with Find Me enabled.
- When you're recording via Watch, but checking things out on your phone, if the phone can't get updated data from online (poor cell reception) it'll now pull friend location data from the Watch in the mean time as that has a good chance of being pretty up-to-date.
- Fixed a case where starting recording via Smart Reminders could cause Slopes to ignore your preferred ski vs snowboard preference.
- Fixed a case where if Slopes crashed and you tried to start or resume via a Smart Reminder that the UI might get stuck in a weird state..
Version 2022.603 February 2022- Stopped the logbook screen from trying to refresh when you're recording. In rare cases this could cause Slopes to get killed in the background for trying to do too much.
- Fixed a case where your unit type (imperial / metric) wasn't syncing to Apple Watch after changing it on iPhone. You can also toggle the units type on the Watch settings screen now.
- Fixed a crash on Watch that could happen when you hit the pause button. Rare race condition in trying to update the heart rate graph twice at the same time.
- Fixed a case where new users weren't being prompted on their iPhone to pick if they skied or snowboarded after recording, and it was just defaulting to skiing. (BTW you can hit the edit button to change your activity type).
- Fixed the season summary showing your number of recordings, not the number of days, at your most-visited resort.
- I've also been making changes in the last 3 updates to fix a crash on Watch that could happen if you stop for lunch (for 40min+) without pausing. Don't want to promise anything, but I think I got this one. Please let us know if it seems fixed for you after installing this update (make sure Slopes on Apple Watch is up to date)..
Version 2021.1617 November 2021- You can now see which friends have ridden at a resort. Great so you know who to ask for some tips before you head there.
- Better email validation on signup; had some typos (gnail.com) blocking people from getting password resets and the likes.
- A few more language updates for our international friends.
- Hopeful fix for a crash when trying to open a Slopes URL in-app..
Version 2021.1320 September 2021- Smart Reminders. Oh boy I've been trying to crack this nut forever. Slopes can now ping you if you drive away and forgot to stop recording, or if you get to a lift and you hadn’t started recording yet (among other things). - You enable Smart Reminders on the device you record with, either your Watch or your iPhone. - You can enable these reminders for up to 12 resorts. When you get to one of the resorts you’ve enabled them for, you’ll get a welcome notification. Tap it to launch Slopes really quick to make sure the lift reminders are good to go for your first day there. - For any resort you don’t add ahead of time, Slopes will enable all these reminders once you start recording there. So basically, you just miss out on the lift-based start recording reminders the first day if you just let Slopes do its thing. - This new system fixes the annoyance with the old reminder system where you’d get pings to record even when you were already recording. - All this happens without Slopes needing to run into the background and spy on your location. - Smart reminders works on all version of iOS, but requires today’s new watchOS to work on Watch.
- Adds support for the always-on display on Apple Watch when using the new version of watchOS.
- Also new for Apple Watch, the graph of vertical / speed / etc for the most recent 5 runs has been replaced with a heart rate graph while you're recording. I’m always curious when I’m hiking up Peak 8 at Breck where my heart rate is at compared to riding a groomer, and I was really annoyed Slopes didn’t show me this. It'll show the last hour of your heart rate, so it is easy to go back and look after you make it to the bottom.
- The stat graphs might be gone, but whichever stat you have as your focus (rotate the Digital Crown) will now show an arrow to indicate which of your most recent run was better/worse vs the previous. Much easier to glance, and really that was the point of the graphs anyway.
- The resort condition and forecast widgets support the new intelligent widget suggestions. This means if you check the conditions at your favorite resort every day at 8am, the Smart Stack widget in the new iOS should start recommending the conditions widget even if you haven’t added it manually yet.
- The conditions widget also supports the new relevance scores, so the system knows a powder day is important and to highlight the widget when in a stack.
- Fixed a case where 3d mountains on the daily summary might pop in without trees.
- You should see some smaller speed improvements with premium maps on iPad and macOS.
- The usual round of small UI polish and improvements throughout the app.
- Finally, support for iOS 13 and watchOS 6 has been dropped (remember that if you need to you can go to your purchase history in the App Store to download Slopes on older versions of iOS)..
Version 2021.1118 July 2021- Fixed a crash when linking Slopes and Strava accounts.
- Fixed a crash when displaying photos on the timeline map..
Version 2021.816 April 2021- Improved the Household Pass onboarding, making the process easier to invite people to join your household after purchase.
- Updated the Household Pass to work with Apple's Family Sharing (and as a result now supports up to 5 other members). It still works cross-platform, too.
- Improved how Slopes saves to Apple Health, letting apps like HealthFit more easily separate lift time vs idle time (this will apply to new recordings, not retroactive).
- Fixed an issue with the heat map of your visits during a season not initially rendering on the share card generator..
Version 2021.618 February 2021- Added Russian translation, the second language to be brought to you by other Slopes users (thanks lisachev and petr.kashlikov!)
- Improvements to the UX when using PayPal via iTunes and those countries in Europe with a new two-step checkout process in iTunes. Slopes won't incorrectly report an error when there was actually wasn't one.
- Dug through the customer support emails for this season and made improvements based on common confusions: - You can now remove friends via the friends tab too (icon in top right brings up option). - Added a message if you have Slopes Cloud Backup turned off that lets you know you can't participate in the stat comparisons with friends (no data on the server). - Promoted two FAQs up to the main help screen. - Tweaked some labels to make some buttons / options clearer. - Added some other new FAQs and rewrote some existing ones to be clearer / more helpful.
- My help provider, HelpScout, has made some nice improvements to their in-app help system over the year. So now launching into that when you view an FAQ instead of the web interface.
- Fixed an issue on the summary screen where the red / black / gray dots could be way, way, too big.
- Server-side fix, but fixed the case where the "recent change" green arrows on the friends tab would stick around longer than 2 weeks.
- Fixed two missing icons on the compare run screen..
Version 2021.101 January 2021- More improvements to Watch -> iPhone transfers. Your recordings should appear more reliably, and sooner, now. - The stats widget should update automatically after a Watch recording is transferred to your phone, even without launching the app. - If you need to launch Slopes on your iPhone for any reason (migration from a new version, etc) before a Watch transfer can complete, a local push notification will be shown.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes Slopes wouldn't prompt for heart rate access as needed, leading to blank graphs.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when navigating to the summary screen for a recording.
- Fixed a crash on the timeline screen related to the vitals graph.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to open the support chat if you had an email with a weird character.
- Fixed a crash on save that could happen if trying to save a workout to Apple Health that was too long (3 days+).
- Fixed a crash when ending your recording after pausing / resuming a few times, but there was no GPS data.
- Fixed a text cutoff issue on the Friends tab for certain stats when also showing the green arrow.
- Fixed the purple banner text to not show placeholder text.
- Fixed some other, seemingly random to you, background crashes.
Man, I'm really on a "fix all the things" kick. Apparently this is how I wind down for the year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Version 2020.2005 December 2020- The resorts tab will now show distances to nearby resorts.
- Further improvements to app launch time.
- Some improvements to translations.
- Fixed a crash / UI hang related to backgrounding Slopes and then opening it.
- Fixed a crash you probably never saw but could happen in the background.
- Fixed a crash on the reminders screen if you had denied notification permissions.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when saving a recording and the new save screen was trying to pop up.
- Fixed a dark mode bug..
