- 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.
- Moved the recording tab to the center of the bar and made Logbook the first tab, since that's the one the app launches into. - Fixed a case where the pause button might not show up while recording. - Fixed a few issues with Watch-to-iPhone communication when Slopes on the iPhone hadn't been launched for a long time. Issues such as Live Activities not showing up when you start recording on Watch, or Day Passes not activating when recording on Watch. - Fixed cases where launching the app directly into a recording or resort details (via Shortcuts, for example) would leave the map in an invalid state.
- A new alternate app icon inspired by the traditional look of resort maps, complete with hundreds of happy little trees covered in hand-painted snow. - Reorganized resort search: the "find bathrooms / food / medical help" options are now shown at the top of search results before you begin search, vs being buried in the filters bar. Also added more options: services (tickets / info), lockers, and more. - When using resort search, the results card shrinks down so you can see results highlighted on the map, too. Makes searches like "show me the bathrooms" or "show me groomed runs" much more useful! - The Offline Maps screen now suggests resorts you might want to save based on upcoming trips and other factors, so you don't have to search by name for each one. - The alternate app icon picker screen now supports previewing dark-mode version of the icons. - If you run your phone in dark mode and use the option to force light-mode maps, selecting a trail / lift / etc to view details will now use the right colors on the map to show it's selected state.
- Added a heading indicator on the icon for your current location, making it a lot easier to figure out which direction you want to head to get to that run / lift / friend. - Improved scrolling in the logbook when you have lots of data / photos / friends. - If you denied camera access and try to launch AR view, you'll now get prompted to fix camera permissions instead of seeing a black screen. - Fixed some cases where the map would bounce back to a previous state when you don't expect it (ex: zooming in a lot on the logbook). - Fixed the live run-by-run breakdown screen on iPhone showing "0s" for super short runs while recording with Watch. - Fixed a case where you couldn't dismiss the AR view for an activity. - Fixed a crash in the background related to displaying photos in the logbook. - Fixed the list of nearby friends card not always updating unless you closed/reopened it.
- Did you set up or join a trip in Slopes? Well, now while you're on the trip with friends, their location will show up even when you aren't recording. Great for finding those stragglers after you end recording, or figuring out where to meet everyone if you're getting a late start. To see their locations head to the recording screen (no need to start recording), or to the upcoming trip screen from the logbook (works on iPad, too!). - Added support for "bases" on resort maps, making it easier to look up what kind of facilities exist at each base without having to dig into the buildings there. In Europe, bases will help us list what is available without having to map *every* building (since those bases can be more like full ski villages). Only a handful of resorts already support bases, but we'll be adding more! - Improved background fetches of friends' locations while recording to better keep them up-to-date if you keep the app on-screen. - When using your Watch to record, your iPhone will fetch friends' locations when you open the iOS app if it hadn't auto-updated recently. - When displaying photos from your Photo library, photos that you marked as favorites in the Photos app now get shown before all the other ones. - Fixed the photo viewer in-app showing low resolution versions of Live Photos. - Fixed some UI hitches that could happen right after updating an activity. - Fixed the logbook loading all data, instead of lazy-loading, when it shouldn't. This could lead to some slowdowns on launch. - Fixed the logbook's activity sync progress bar always showing as blue, even after sync completes.
- Added most vertical in a day, and most distance in a day, to the lifetime / season / trip summary screens. - Added average speed to the lifetime / season / trip summery header list of stats. - Added back your friend's name to the VS popup.
- New merch! Ride in Japan to unlock the "JPow" shirt. - When you tap the "new merch unlocked!" banner, the merch screen will highlight what just unlocked. - Added a progress indicator to offline map downloads. - Speed improvements for downloading offline maps for European resorts. - Fixed lifts not automatically being tagged with their names as you record, making their labels not show on the replay screen. Note: this update will go through and fix recordings that had this problem the first time you launch this update. For most people this will take 2 seconds. If your name is Taylor and you have 338 hours recorded in 2024/25, yeah, it'll take 15 seconds. - Fixed a case where some resorts didn't report the country they were in leading to incorrect country counts in the lifetime / season summaries. - Fixed spacing of a resort's condition history calendar on smaller devices or when you use larger font sizes. - Fixed "rode with" being stuck in a shimmering state if you backgrounded the app and re-opened it with a trip open. - Fixed trip stats screen in logbook. If you had an in-progress trip, before it'd always open the "upcoming" view of the trip until that trip was finally over. Now it'll open the right screen depending on which section you tap the trip in. - Fixed the friends leaderboard not automatically refreshing after sending the app to the background for 1 min or more. - Fixed average speed showing as 0 on iPhone while recording using your Watch. - Fixed a case where the friends leaderboard wasn't automatically refreshing if your backgrounded the app for a while. - Fixed a crash that could occur as Slopes tried to activate a Day pass after importing a recording from Watch. - Fixed a few other seemingly random crashers.
- Design refresh for the "vs" screen that pops up when you tap an avatar in leaderboards. - Made the avatars for people you rode with in past trips tappable to bring up this VS card. - Fade out the area labels at a resort during replay (ex: "Peak 8", "Peak 7" / etc at Breck) - Fixed a case where you couldn't scroll up/down when viewing a trip with multiple destinations. - Fixed not being able to tap on bowls / glades and other runs that aren't strictly lines on the map. - Fixed some text truncation that could happen to the conditions report when viewing a trip. - Fixed the forecast widget showing snow icons for days it wasn't actually going to snow. - Fixed a possible crash when trying to pause or resume your recording on your Watch via your iPhone. - Fixed a case where if your phone died from the cold, and you had a Live Activity going, Slopes might not automatically recover your recording for you when you turn your phone back on.
- Offline trail maps are back and better then ever! - The new system not only saves the paper trail maps for offline use, but also Slopes's interactive trail maps and all their searchable trail data. - Slopes now periodically checks for updates to maps in the background, so you're up-to-date throughout the season. - One note: offline maps are limited to Slopes Premium *subscribers*. The UX the old offline system had with Day Passes was ... messy ... and we wanted to keep this simple. - Fun fact: this is Kirby's first major feature shipped since joining Slopes in November. Everyone say "Thanks, Kirby!" - If you record via iPhone and use a heart rate monitor that supports the Bluetooth Heart Rate Profile which is set to stream live to Apple Health, Slopes will now show HR data while you record. This includes your min/max HR for the last 10 minutes & zone breakdowns live per run. - In addition to changes in ranks, leaderboards will now highlight increases in stats too, letting you can keep up with who is getting out there even if their rank doesn't change. - Ties on leaderboards are now much easier to spot. - We keep trying to fix a bug where the leaderboards don't redraw to show a change in day count, and think we got it this time. Third time is a charm? - Fixed a case where a Day Pass would auto-activate but not activate Slopes Premium unless you force-quit and re-opened Slopes (only happened if you had used a Day Pass the day before, too). - Fixed a case where the Live Activity wouldn't show if you hadn't launched Slopes on your phone recently before starting a workout on your watch. - Fixed two crashes caused by data race conditions (they just appeared "random" to y'all). - Fixed (we hope) a case where the pause button might not show on the recording screen. - Fixed some smaller resorts not showing details like known base / summit altitude. - Fixed the logbook not removing your path & photos from the map after closing a past recording day. - It wouldn't be a new year without catching and fixing at least one typo made by Curtis.
- Improved handling of Slopes Premium status while your iPhone is processing a renewal so it won't flash the map from premium -> free -> back to premium as that happens. - Improved transfers from Watch -> iPhone at the end of the day, specifically when you end your recording on Watch via iPhone. - Changed the forecast widget to only highlight snow days > 1cm (same as in-app), vs showing snow for even super trivial amounts. - Fixed a bug where old paper trail maps would stick around on-device even if they had been replaced on the server. - Fixed avatars not appearing on the Compare screen while comparing runs. - Fixed a case where if you record and activate a day pass, then accidentally record again later that day and cancel right away, the day pass would be deactivated. - Fixed the trip countdown sometimes being off by 1 day. - Fixed some spacing issues on the new recording stats screen in languages other than English. - Fixed a crash that could happen when trying to share your location using the web link. - Fixed runs being harder to see in free mode at resorts that have live status. - Fixed a few other random background / race condition crashes.
- Quick fix for another crash I wanted to squish before the weekend that could happen while recording.
- The recording screen got the TLC it was supposed to get during the September redesign, but I just didn't have the time to get to. The new screen is very familiar, but much more streamlined. - Improved the contrast of buttons in dark mode. - Improved the "set your avatar" step of account registration to make the process clearer. - Improved search at resorts to allow for better fuzzy-matching with text search (ex: "restroom", "bathroom", "toilets", etc all now bring back bathrooms). - Removed the option to use your weight to adjust calorie estimates when using your iPhone (not your Watch!) to record. This estimate was great in iOS 8 when it launched, before Apple Watch, but now we recommend using your Watch if you want the best calorie estimates since it can account for age, weight, heart rate, and other fitness metrics. Phone-based recordings will still save a calorie estimate to Apple Health but it'll be based on a fixed weight. - Fixed a case where avatars of your friends that end their day might not be removed from the map during recording. - Fixed a case where the pause/resume/end buttons might disappear on your iPhone while recording via Watch.
- Fixed free trials not always showing up for new users. - Fixed the compare screen being light on top and in dark mode on the bottom half.
- Fixed showing the wrong name in non-english languages on home screens. - Fixed a case where a "start your trial" popup might show during recording when you're riding on premium via a day pass or family plan.
- At resort with Slopes HD Maps, you can now text-search by peak/bowl name, amenity type ("ticket office", "lockers", etc), and base names ("Breck Village") to let you find results matching those criteria. - Fixed premium app icons showing as locked if you have Slopes Premium but you used the free trial (sorry!) - Fixed a crash when tapping the count of runs open at a resort. - Fixed a crash that could happen on the recording screen when resuming after a longer pause. - Fixed a layout issue on the Nearby Friends screen footer while recording.
Slopes is now the official app of Tsugaike Mountain Resort in Japan! We've made a ton of improvements related to this new partnership: - Slopes's premium maps will be unlocked while you record at Tsugaike, for everyone! - If you're a season pass holder at Tsugaike, you get Slopes Premium for the season. Everyone else who goes to Tsugaike gets one free Slopes Premium Day Pass (look for the QR codes around the resort). - If you're visiting Tsugaike from outside of Japan, the English run + lift names will now show in-app for you making it a lot easier to get around. - To commemorate the launch of our first partner resort, there are two new Japanese themed alt app icons. Head to Account -> App Icons to check them out. Big news for maps in Slopes: - We've worked hard to hand-map over 630 resorts world-wide, building the best digital trail maps out there. But relying only on our own high-quality and verified data has left a lot of resorts without mapping data in Slopes. To address this gap, we're now showing lifts and trails using data from Open Street Maps, which has let us bring in interactive maps for more than 1,500 additional resorts world-wide! The data in OSM isn't always up to Slopes's standards for accuracy, hence why we map resorts ourselves, but it's still a huge improvement overall for the maps in Slopes as an imperfect something is often better than nothing. - At Tsugaike and Breckenridge you'll see the initial rollout of "Slopes HD Maps" with a ton more data: ropes, gates, slow zones, restricted / closed areas, and more! Slopes's HD Maps are the most complete digital ski maps out there. We'll slowly be upgrading more of the top resorts to HD over the coming months, and rolling out more features related to it. - We've simplified how the Slopes Day Passes work as there was always confusion around having to manually activate a Day Pass after you buy it. Going forward, you don't manually manage their activation anymore; Day Passes activate automatically when you record. The "Trip Pass" (the 1-Week pass available in North America) has been removed for sale as part of this, too, but if you had an unused one on your account it's been converted to 7 individual Day Passes. - The seasonal leaderboard now only show people who have actually recorded this season by default. Expand if you want to see all the 0s. - If you recorded in France, Spain, or Italy, their further-away territories will no longer highlight on the logbook's map. - Fixed the upcoming trip cell's layout on iPad OS, and with dynamic type sizing on. - Fixed a crash when trying to edit a recording to change the resort it was at. - Fixed a few cases where you couldn't select a specific picture to use as your profile picture. - Fixed a case where a recording might get stuck with the loading indicator on the logbook after trying to edit it. - Fixed a crash on Watch when running the conditions or forecast shortcut. - Fixed a background crash with the widget when you had more than 2 of the same widget on your homescreen. - Fixed a case where a resort's Japanese name would show in the logbook instead of the English version of the name (when available). - Fixed a crash on the upcoming trip screen. - Fixed a case where duplicate seasons could be created when you record on the very last day of a season. - Fixed the lifetime stats cell having weird animations when logging in on a new device. - Removed the resort named "Test." Ha, oops.
(2024.7 is a quick fix for 2024.6 that broke some localized strings) Oh boy, this is a big one! - New card-based UI that keeps the map of your data always visible (and more interactive): - Logbook now shows everywhere you've visited. Fill that map with pins! - That map at the top of the Resorts tab is (finally) interactive. Explore resorts around the world, and tap to open them. - New map on the Friends tab showing everywhere your friends have visited this season (anonymously) - This also means Resorts + Friends tabs finally come to iPad. iPad should mirror iPhone features (almost) perfectly going forward. - Lots of UI improvements along with the refreshed design, such as: - Tried to move the stats we all care about higher on the screens, so less scrolling. - The exact time is now displayed on the timeline screen as your scroll. - Made favorite resorts + favorite recordings more obvious. - Updated design for the Friends tab, making it easier to get a feel for the leaderboards, especially if you have lots of friends. - New lifetime & season summary screens. More stats! More data! Trend charts to visualize your progress season over season (sorry it took me so long to replace that "wrote it in a night because a family I met on a lift really wanted it" Compare table. These charts are soooo much better). - In prep for Apple Intelligence, much better support for Siri + Shortcuts + App Intents: - Trigger pause / resume / end via Shortcuts. - Get a summary of your in-progress recording's stats, a specific stat, or details about your last run via Siri & Shortcuts. - Get a list of nearby resorts for Shortcuts, and feed them into Shortcuts to get their forecast, conditions, or just open them in Slopes. - Control Center widget to start recording (or just so you can have skiis or a snowboard icon on your lock screen, ha). - Redesigned snow forecast widget (sorry for the confusion metric users, those numbers were always CM of snow, not tempature). This widget is now also available on Watch. - Support for iOS 18's new dark mode and tinted icons, and a new alternate icon inspired by the 90's web. - Support for iOS 18's tintable widgets. - Support for watchOS 11's Double Tap with Watch Ultra. Double Tap to swap between stats while recording. - Changed the "Activity" widget on Apple Watch to fit in better with the Smart Stack. - All the resorts Slopes knows about are now sent to Spotlight, so when you search on-device for a resort you'll get the option to open it in Slopes (or trigger recent shortcuts). - Rewrote the resorts screen to more intelligently surface resorts based on favorites, trips, nearby, and more. Less scrolling, hopefully, to see the resort you likely want. - Fix missing commas for some stats when they'd get above 1,000. - Fix for widgets where resort names starting with "The" might get cut off. This release requires iOS 16.1 or higher (which means iPhone 8 or newer, don't worry), and watchOS 9 or higher. Work on this release started in late February, and we *still* didn't get to everything we wanted done. Trail map download + management will be coming back (much improved) in the season kickoff release in November, along with a ton of other stuff that wasn't quite ready yet.
Oh boy, this is a big one! - New card-based UI that keeps the map of your data always visible (and more interactive): - Logbook now shows everywhere you've visited. Fill that map with pins! - That map at the top of the Resorts tab is (finally) interactive. Explore resorts around the world, and tap to open them. - New map on the Friends tab showing everywhere your friends have visited this season (anonymously) - This also means Resorts + Friends tabs finally come to iPad. iPad should mirror iPhone features (almost) perfectly going forward. - Lots of UI improvements along with the refreshed design, such as: - Tried to move the stats we all care about higher on the screens, so less scrolling. - The exact time is now displayed on the timeline screen as your scroll. - Made favorite resorts + favorite recordings more obvious. - Updated design for the Friends tab, making it easier to get a feel for the leaderboards, especially if you have lots of friends. - New lifetime & season summary screens. More stats! More data! Trend charts to visualize your progress season over season (sorry it took me so long to replace that "wrote it in a night because a family I met on a lift really wanted it" Compare table. These charts are soooo much better). - In prep for Apple Intelligence, much better support for Siri + Shortcuts + App Intents: - Trigger pause / resume / end via Shortcuts. - Get a summary of your in-progress recording's stats, a specific stat, or details about your last run via Siri & Shortcuts. - Get a list of nearby resorts for Shortcuts, and feed them into Shortcuts to get their forecast, conditions, or just open them in Slopes. - Control Center widget to start recording (or just so you can have skiis or a snowboard icon on your lock screen, ha). - Redesigned snow forecast widget (sorry for the confusion metric users, those numbers were always CM of snow, not tempature). This widget is now also available on Watch. - Support for iOS 18's new dark mode and tinted icons, and a new alternate icon inspired by the 90's web. - Support for iOS 18's tintable widgets. - Support for watchOS 11's Double Tap with Watch Ultra. Double Tap to swap between stats while recording. - Changed the "Activity" widget on Apple Watch to fit in better with the Smart Stack. - All the resorts Slopes knows about are now sent to Spotlight, so when you search on-device for a resort you'll get the option to open it in Slopes (or trigger recent shortcuts). - Rewrote the resorts screen to more intelligently surface resorts based on favorites, trips, nearby, and more. Less scrolling, hopefully, to see the resort you likely want. - Fix missing commas for some stats when they'd get above 1,000. - Fix for widgets where resort names starting with "The" might get cut off. This release requires iOS 16.1 or higher (which means iPhone 8 or newer, don't worry), and watchOS 9 or higher. Work on this release started in late February, and we *still* didn't get to everything we wanted done. Trail map download + management will be coming back (much improved) in the season kickoff release in November, along with a ton of other stuff that wasn't quite ready yet.
- 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.
- Updated our mapping SDK to get some of their "bug fixes and performance improvements".
- Fixed trips not showing rode-with stat comparisons.
- Fixed a crash on the nearby friends screen during recording. - Fixed a crash on the activity save screen. - Fixed a crash on the trip create / edit screen if you moved the start date > 90 days in certain conditions. - Fixed some cases where the search or lift/run details cards might get stuck on screen when responding to a push notification. - Fixed (I'm pretty sure) a rare case where the dots in the heart rate zone would grow too big and overtake the screen.
- 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."
- Fixed a case where Slopes on Apple Watch might not tag you at a resort.
- Slopes will now only dim trails based on live status for the resorts you're actually looking/recording at, and when we know we support live status there. - If you're recording on your Watch, but checking things like friend locations & lift status on your phone periodically, the phone app should launch into the recording screen a bit faster now. We're talking like 400ms faster, but every (half) second counts when the gloves are off! - Updated translations for Japanese. - Fixed "in 30 years" as the last-updated for conditions. - Slopes on iOS should no longer launch back into a resort details screen while you're in the middle of recording via watchOS. - Fixed a few more threading race condition crashes in the background. - Added a workaround for a watchOS 10.2 bug that was preventing searching for resorts for the Watch complication. - Fixed a case where your Watch might tag you as at a resort you haven't been at for hours (roadtrip!).
If you've been following along on IG Stories you know I've been testing out a super cool feature. The plan was to spend all of this season testing it and launch it next year, but honestly it's such a killer feature I couldn't wait. - Live lift & trails status show directly on the recording screen and interactive resort maps: - A new lift status icon shows on the map, available to both free and Slopes Premium riders. - Trails will be faded out when they are marked as closed. Trail status is only available for Slopes Premium riders. - These two layers/filters are enabled by default and can be toggled via the map settings. - Live status is also integrated with the resort search card, so you can quickly check the status of any lift/trail. - As a result of the much earlier-than-expected launch, live status is only rolling out to ~50 resorts to start. - Better search filters on resort maps. Added shortcuts below the search field for popular searches such as "bathrooms", "open runs", "intermediate runs", "all lifts", and more. - Riders without Slopes Premium can now view limited lift details like status, and tapping a lift in search will center the screen on the lift so it's easy to find. - Fixed water lock on Watch getting stuck showing the controls screen vs swapping back to the stats screen. - Fixed some layout issues on watchOS 8 and on smaller screens like Series 3. - Fixed sharing to Instagram Stores due to Facebook now requiring we register with them as an app, just to be able to pass them the image **rolls eyes**. - There is a bug in iOS 17 related to Text-to-Speech in the background over longer periods of time, so disabled the "paused recording" / "resumed recording" audio messages for now.
- Localization is largely community-driven for Slopes (want to help? Account tab -> translate, and thanks for all that help!), but some languages were falling behind so we hired some people to help catch us up. - Tweaked the onboarding steps on the logbook to better focus on minimizing work / choices once you get to the resort to ski. - Improved a case where your Watch might not fully start recording when starting it via your iPhone, if you locked the screen / close Slopes before it finished starting. - Fixed the new 8-seater chair icon on the timeline screen. - Fixed a few typos.
- Starting recording on your Watch via your iPhone should be a little bit speedier. - Will no longer announce "started recording", "paused recording", etc in English when your language is set to non-english. - Fixed a case where if you recently rebooted your Watch, and you tried to start recording on it via your phone, things might get stuck. - Fixed recordings on Watch taking longer than they should to sync the resort you're at back to the phone. - Fixed a crash rendering 3D mountains for recordings. - Fixed a crash on the purchase screen if there was an error during purchase. - Fixed a threading issue when updating resort information that could result in random crashes. - Fixed a crash that could happen in the background on the iPhone when you end recording on your Watch. - Fixed a case where old recording artifacts might get in the way of starting a new recording.
This release is born out of the itch we're all feeling for some snow. Thanks to all the resort teams fighting hard against Mother Nature right now to get us some snow! - For 570+ resorts world-wide, Slopes now provides easy access to the official lift + run status page for the resort you're recording at. - At a select set of resorts (~60 to start) Slopes will show the lift + run open % on the resort details screen (and any recent increases). - Have a hard time remembering if there were 56 (or was it 58?) runs open last time you checked? Curious which trails or lifts opened since last you looked? At that same set of select resorts, Slopes Premium riders can now view the history of trail openings for the season. Tap "history" on the resort details screen to see that. - Added support to show chair lifts that have bubbles, and lifts that have heated seats (ok we get it, you're fancy). - Added an icon for 8-person chair lifts so they don't show as 6-person lifts. - Added the seat count to the lift details card, so you don't have to squint at the icon to figure that out. - Fixed weird flickering on the resort maps (both on resort details & while recording) that could happen while in 3D mode, usually when you'd background Slopes then come back to it. - Fixed the search bar flickering back into view when tapping between runs. - Fixed a crash while recording in free mode, related to updating the map's resort buildings. - Fixed a bug in the trip migration script that could cause them to disappear if you had previously made a trip with no activities in it. Sorry, this isn't a retroactive fix. - Fixed a random crasher on the activity details screen related to showing the "did you get in a car?" timeline editor tip.
Kicking off the season with three major new features! - Trip planning: - Plan upcoming trips for your season, and invite your friends to them to share in the hype. - Trips let you keep tabs on the conditions of resorts you'll hit in one central place. - When you invite people you haven't friended yet on Slopes, "Share Location with Nearby Friends" will automatically work with those people, too. Plus the "Rode With" tagging at the end of the day. Much easier than everyone having to share friend links for a one-off trip. - The "Winter Memories" widget for your home screen will show a countdown to your next trip. - As you ski during a trip, the trip totals will be visible, just like season totals are (this bit was possible before, but kinda buried). - Resort map search + trail / lift details inspector: - Tap on runs / lifts while recording to get more details like elevation graphs, vertical, slope, etc. - Many North American resort maps now show on-mountain facilities such as bathrooms, food, and most importantly ski patrol locations. - Search for a specific any run / lift by name, or for on-mountain buildings like ski patrol huts or nearby bathrooms. - All these features are also available while you aren't recording via the Resorts tab, too. - We try hard to be *very* proactive about updating our trail data, but if you notice something out of date, you can report a correction from the popup card for a run / lift. - These features are available for resorts that have the "interactive map" tag on the resort details screen (350+ resorts world-wide). - Our interactive resort maps support being viewed in 3D now, in both winter and satellite modes. Great for figuring spotting those flat catwalks before it is too late. And some other goodies & improvements: - New merch in the store! There's a sticker pack, a vintage patch, and most importantly a new "1,000,000 vertical feet club" shirt for those of you who found the 500,000ft challenge a bit too easy. - Added a toggle in settings to let you keep the premium trail maps in light mode, even when you're rocking dark mode. - Added the ability to dismiss the onboarding tips. - Complex European resorts will now show all lifts on the map in free mode, not just the lifts at the part you started at. - Improvements to the Help & Support screen, more intelligently recommending FAQs based on actions you've taken. - The current season is always shown at the top of the logbook now, even if you haven't recorded in the season yet. - Support for Big Sky's new double blue-square runs (before their official app even does). - Support for noting resorts that are permanently closed, and no longer tagging recordings as at them. - Fixed the friend cards on iPhone (while recording via Watch) sometimes getting stuck in the loading state. - Fixed the season total vertical not switching over from "k ft" to "mil ft" if you ski over a million feet in a season. - Fixed Siri not recognizing the "ski" workout type when trying to start a workout. - Fixed a crash at launch on watchOS 8.
- 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.
- Slopes on Watch already felt great on watchOS 10, but now it's even better. Your focus stat while recording now highlights with a custom background, and the nearby friends screen adopts the design language of the new OS. - When you start recording on Watch, a Live Activity will now automatically start on your phone! (requires iOS 17 + watchOS 10) - Support for Stand By Mode on iPhone, and Smart Stack on Watch. - Auto-resume on Watch got some tweaks. The menu no longer pops up when you hit pause (slightly confusing); it's now an option next to the resume button. Slight tweaks to the iPhone remote control resume options to match. - Use your Memoji in Slopes! You can now pick your contact card picture as your avatar. - Slopes on Watch will now detect when you start workout in a second app after starting Slopes. This hijacks some permissions Slopes normally has, so functionality becomes limited. But this is why some people would have auto-resume never kick in. - Slopes on iPhone will also limit itself if it detects this workout hijack, so you don't hit the resume button and have nothing happen. - You can now send your "add me as a friend on Slopes" link to people via the Watch app.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- OpenSnow integration (!!). Resort snowfall forecasts in Slopes are now powered by OpenSnow, and include temperature estimates too. - If you want more details beyond the 5-day snowfall estimate, you can tap to get directly into OpenSnow (either on the web or the app if you have it installed). Can I just nerd out for a second? OpenSnow is my go-to for forecasts, I'm super excited to bring their data to all of you. Make sure you head over to them and sign up to check out their full data (this is not a sponsored post lol).
- Improved the contrast of your day's path on the recording screen with the newer premium maps. - Some localization updates from the community (thanks!) - Tweaked manual speed calculations when importing GPX files that don't contain speed info. Still not 100% happy, but should get ~50% less "spikes" of weird speeds. - Fixed incorrect labels for most daily vertical / distance on the season share card for "bests". - Fixed a case where your phone might say you're in the backcountry, but you're recording on your Watch at a resort. - Fixed an issue with the anonymous feedback privacy option switch. If you turned that on in the last month, please turn it on again. Very sorry about that. - Fixed a crash on the modular complication for watchOS.
Starting off the new year with a big feature: - Slopes's interactive trail maps are now available even when you aren't recording, via the resort details screen for each resort. - Interactive trail maps have increased contrast of trail information (except in the logbook where your recording is front-and-center) to help with outdoor reading. I have some big plans for maps on the resort tab, so this is just step 1!
- Fixed a case where backcountry days might record as one long run. - Fixed a case where an unfinished recording on Watch would prevent you from starting a new recording. You'll now resume the old one, letting you end it.
- 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.
- Maps! Maps! Maps! We've been hard at work over the summer building our enhanced digital trail maps for international resorts and today we're launching them for the top resorts in the European Alps and Japan. We've also added another 70 resorts in North America, bringing our world-wide total to over 200.
- Fixed a case where the "weak GPS" warning would appear incorrectly on your phone while recording with your Watch. - Fixed a case where Watch imports wouldn't process.
- Apple Watch Ultra Action button support for starting your workout. Slopes will automatically figure out what resort you're at when starting (or if you're in the backcountry). - Auto water lock on Watch. Enable this setting to have your Watch enable water-lock automatically after you start recording. Handy for pesky gear that likes to mess with your Watch during the day. - Improvements to the Siri workout start on Watch. - Fixed another crash related to leaving Slopes recording while taking a long break.
- Fixed crash that could occur while leaving Slopes recording when you take a break. - Fixed a crash when trying to view Smart Reminders settings from the notifications screen.
- Garmin Watch auto-imports. If you're a Garmin Watch wearer, you can now connect Slopes to Garmin Connect and we'll automatically import your ski and snowboard activities as soon as they upload. - This gets you the best of both worlds: you can keep using your Garmin device to record, and at the end of the day you get the awesome interactive replays, 3D maps, friend leaderboards, and more! - When you make the connection between Garmin and Slopes, we'll automatically import the last 5 years of ski data (ignoring any duplicates of data already in Slopes). - Activities imported via Garmin Connect will include heart rate data, too. - Head to Account -> Online Integrations to get started.
- Restored support for watchOS 7.1. - Localized the Slopes Swag screen. - Fixed some other typos / localization issues. - Fixed a bug where number of runs always showed as "-" in Live Activity. - Fixed a case where if Slopes crashed and you re-opened it, it wouldn't automatically resume recording like it should. - Fixed a case where with Find-Me enabled Slopes may ask every time you start recording if you want to enable notifications.
- Live Activity support: see how your day is going without unlocking your phone! From your Lock Screen you can see two (customizable) stats about your day, who else is riding at the resort, and the timeline of your day. - Dynamic Island support. On iPhone 14 Pro models Slopes will live up in the Dynamic Island, making it easy to check stats / nearby friends at a glance and pause / resume. - Fixed a case where forgetting to pause for a lunch break could cause incorrect lift/run detection after your break. Note: this release temporarily removes watchOS 7 support, requiring watchOS 8. watchOS 7 support will be restored as soon as a bug is fixed.
- 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.
- New widgets for your Lock Screen *and* Complications for your Watch: keep tabs on local resort conditions and snow forecasts. - New widget for your Home Screen: Winter Memories. Photos you took while skiing will rotate daily on your Home Screen. See snow year-round! - Tweaked the heart rate zone calculation to closer match Apple's new zone metrics (they use Heart Rate Recovery, vs relying on just max HR). - Slopes can better detect if you might have driven away while leaving Slopes recording, and will direct you to the timeline editor if it thinks you did. - Made the close button more obvious on the run comparison screen. - The "New Merch Unlocked" message will no longer be triggered because of activities being downloaded from another device. - Fixed the 2D/3D map preview not updating after you made an edit via the timeline editor. - Fixed the How'd You Stack Up / Leaderboards not updating automatically after making an edit via the timeline editor. - Fixed a case where the How'd You Stack Up section would always show a "syncing to server" message if you had multiple recordings in the same day. - Fixed an issue with changing your password via the app. - You can now manually set the default equipment (ski vs snowboard) on iPhone just like you could Watch. This'll sync over to Watch, and keep itself up to date if you change equipment on an activity after completing your day. This should fix some of the edge cases with the iPhone defaulting to the wrong equipment when you start recording. - Slopes should now be a lot faster to recover from a crash on Watch, which should help an occasional crash-on-launch if it was trying to recover.
- 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.