・The Real Map from the sky: open the Real Map with the map button at the top right, then choose Aerial from the round button at the bottom right to see your walks over the city from above. With Plus, View in 3D raises the buildings; without Plus, watch an ad to use it there and then. Tap a line to lift that walk out, or press and hold to open it and fix it. ・A nudge when you head out: if you often forget to open PlainWalk, turn on Profile › When you start moving › Notify me. A few minutes after you set off, it asks once; tap Record right on the Lock Screen. At most twice a day, and it goes quiet at times you don't need it. If something keeps it from working, When you start moving shows Paused; tap it to see why and how to fix it. ・Walking stats, redrawn: open Walking stats from Profile or Records. Your numbers count up and the charts grow in, and you can feel each one land. Tap a bar or a day to see its distance, or a personal best to open that walk, and see how much you covered walking, running, cycling or by vehicle. ・A daily step goal: open Walking stats and tap Set a daily step goal, or go to Profile › Settings › Steps. Your last 7 days of steps show as bars, with your goal as a dotted line. Steps today get a small ring on your map, and when you reach your goal, your map celebrates. Still short in the evening? One gentle nudge. Tap Steps today on your map to see how close you are, along with your last 7 days. ・Replay a trip or a week: in Records, open Watch your map grow and tap All days at the top left. Under Period, tap the dates and pick the first and then the last day on the calendar, then tap Play these days to watch your map grow with just those walks. ・Name your walks: open a walk, tap … at the top right and choose Add a name. It becomes the walk's title in Records, instead of the place name. Export as GPX and Delete are in the same menu now. ・Share photos in a white frame: open a photo from Spots or a walk and tap the share button at the top. It goes out in a white frame with the camera, lens and settings, the date and a small PlainWalk logo. Put the details in the middle or on the left, and keep the shape or crop to 4:5, 1:1 or 3:4. Photos you take or add from now on keep these details, even when saved to the Photos app. ・Portrait in PlainWalk's camera: while walking, tap Spot, then ƒ at the top of the camera. After you shoot, choose how soft the background gets, from f/1.4 to f/16. Works on cameras that can sense depth, like a dual camera or LiDAR. ・Add photos from your other camera: open a walk in Records and tap Add photos. Photos from a camera without GPS, or with its clock off, can now be placed by tapping your route on the map; each one gets the time you passed that point. If the camera's clock is a few hours off, PlainWalk notices and fixes them all at once. ・Line things up on your page: move a photo or sticker and it clicks onto the middle of the page and the edges of what's already there; turn it near level and it straightens. With nothing selected, pinch the page or double-tap it to zoom in on the part you're working on. Drag the small handle on washi tape to change its width, stretch hand-drawn doodles from their edges, and fade anything with Opacity. ・Touch up your stickers: when choosing a sticker, tap the brush on the selected one to paint in what was missed or erase what got caught. Your stroke snaps to the shape underneath, and a magnifier shows what's under your finger. On iOS 27, Select anything picks exactly what you tap or circle, at full photo resolution. Photos taken with PlainWalk's camera on an iPhone with a dual camera or LiDAR use depth to drop the background behind the subject. ・Kilometers or miles: choose kilometers or miles in Profile › Settings › Units, whatever your region. Distances, areas and speeds all follow, including your widgets and Apple Watch.

・A page for every day: open Notes under Profile. The day's walk, Spots, stickers, area badges and thoughts are already pasted on. Move them around, write in handwriting or round letters, add washi tape and hand-drawn doodles, and share the page as an image or a short video. Pick from five page sizes, including 3:4 and 16:9, and make as many pages a day as you like. A share card can come along too, with Decorate in your note. It works on days you don't walk, too. ・Leave a thought as you walk: while recording, tap Thought on your map and write a few words. They stay where you were. Tap a trail on your map to see that walk's thoughts and photos; they also pop up as speech bubbles when the walk replays and in your notes. ・Now in Chinese, German, French, Spanish and Italian: PlainWalk follows your iPhone's language. Traditional and Simplified Chinese, German, French, Spanish and Italian join Japanese, Korean and English, in the app, the widgets and on Apple Watch. ・Plus as a one-time purchase: plus can now be bought once, with no subscription. On the Plus page, slide the plans to the left to find Lifetime. Already subscribed? Switch to Lifetime is at the bottom of Profile. After switching, cancel your subscription in App Store settings. ・Doodle on the roads: open the real map, tap Doodle and trace the streets with one finger to draw a picture. It is kept under Profile › Collection › Doodles. Pick one on a walking day and its dotted outline guides you on your map until you have walked it. ・Hold to the light: in Make a video, turn on Hold to the light. At the end of the clip the real streets rise through the paper. Post a walk and let people guess where it is. ・Plant several flags and choose the order (Plus): on the real map, tap Set a destination and keep planting: the map stays open until you tap Done. Tap a flag on your map to choose the order you visit them in. When you reach one, the guide moves on to the next number. ・Send a flag to a friend: tap a flag or a Someday place on your map and choose Share. Send the link with “Meet me here”: your friend gets the same flag, and you each find your own way to it. Without PlainWalk, the link opens a page with the place on a map. ・Share stickers with their finish (Plus): share a sticker and it goes out in its finish: hologram, foil, transparent or paper, on a transparent background you can paste into messages. ・Cleaner stickers, and draw a loop to pick anything: stickers are cut with finer edges. If the subject it finds is not the one you want, or several things end up as one, draw a loop around what you want on the photo and that alone becomes a sticker. ・Map outlines (Plus): turn on Show map outlines in Layers to lay faint city borders and the coastline under your trails. You can tell which area you are in and where the land ends, with no roads or names added. ・Badges for China mainland, Hong Kong and Macao: area badges now cover China mainland district by district, Hong Kong's 18 districts and Macao. Walks you have already taken there count too. ・Walks in faraway cities on a shared map: when someone on your shared map walks in a city far from where you are looking, a small triangle at the edge of the screen points the way with the distance. Tap it to go there, and tap again to come back. In Map settings, tap a person to jump to where they walk. The real map now opens on the part of the paper you are looking at.

・Stickers: cut the subjects out of your Spot photos as white-edged stickers. Tap a subject in the photo to pick it. Your stickers are collected under Profile › Collection, and you can peel one by pulling a corner. ・Sticker finishes (Plus): finish a sticker in hologram, foil, transparent or paper. Tilt your iPhone and the light moves across it. ・Swap or give stickers nearby: open Swap or give nearby in your sticker book with a friend. Pick one each and tap Swap, or touch the tops of your iPhones to give one. A sticker arrives with its finish. ・More widgets: Around you draws the roads near you in fine detail (Plus). Stickers puts one of your stickers on your Home Screen each day. Your region fills in the areas you have walked in your prefecture (Plus). Lock Screen widgets show today’s pioneered distance and steps, or start a walk, and on iOS 18 you can put Leave a trail in Control Center or on the Action button. ・Smoother lines: your trail on the map is drawn more smoothly. Zoom in and gentle curves no longer look like a chain of straight lines. Recorded points, distances and pioneered roads are unchanged.

・Short videos, one or two seconds: in the Spot camera, switch to Video and tap once to record one or two seconds, with or without sound. Films work on videos too. In Make a video, each clip plays as the line reaches the place you took it. ・Apple Health: your steps now include your Apple Watch, and a walk's details show its heart rate, active energy and how you felt afterwards. Turn it on in Profile › Settings › Apple Health. ・Workouts on your map (Plus): draw your outdoor walks, hikes and runs from Apple Health on your map, even the ones from before PlainWalk. Choose them yourself with each route shown on a map, or have new ones added automatically. ・Record from home and work (Plus): put your home and workplace on a map in Profile › Settings › Home and work, and turn it on. PlainWalk starts recording when you leave, even while it is closed, and stops when you arrive at either one. Turn it off any time; your places are kept. ・Tidier photo pins: when you zoom out, photos taken close together gather into one pin, drawn as a small stack. Pinch in and they spread apart again. Tap a stack to zoom in until it splits, or to see the photos from that one spot. ・Walking, running, cycling or riding: each walk now notes how you got around, from your iPhone’s motion data and your speed. Walks that were mostly running, cycling or in a vehicle get a small mark in Records. Correct it in the walk’s details, for the whole walk or part by part, and hide any of them from your map in Layers. Past walks are marked too.

・Dark mode: your map can become a dark sheet with light ink, and every colour has a dark side of its own. Turn it on in Profile › Settings › Appearance, or let it match your device. ・Area badges, in 3D: open an area badge and tap 3D. Your walks sit on a white tile you can spin with a finger. The list now shows which area you are in, and the nearest area you have not walked yet. ・Watch a town grow (Plus): from an area badge, replay how that town filled in, walk by walk, inside its outline. The places you saved there are listed too, ready to aim for. ・Badges for the US, Europe and Taiwan: area badges now cover the United States, the United Kingdom, the EU countries, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, and Taiwan, alongside Japan and Korea. Big cities such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Rome have a badge for each district. Walks you have already taken there count too. ・Straighten out a wobbly trail: in a walk's details, tap the scissors and pick a stretch. Fit to roads makes the line follow the streets on the map; if it takes the wrong street, drag a point onto the one you walked. Smooth this stretch irons out the jitter, and two points can be joined with a straight line. Dashed circles show where the GPS wandered. ・Your own photo on a share card: tap Share card on a walk and choose Photo to use any photo from your library as the background, with the map small in the corner if you like. Spots taken close together are gathered into one pin instead of piling up. ・Photos and walks, linked: when you add photos to a past walk, only the ones you took during that walk are shown, ready to pick. From a photo in Spot, See this walk opens the walk it came from. ・Photo pins, and one day at a time: in Make a video, choose Photo pins and your photos pop up as the line reaches the places you took them. In Watch your map grow, pick a day to replay just that day's walks, or tap Play this day in Records. ・A camera with film: Spot now opens its own camera, with a grid and a level to line up the shot. Pick a film before you shoot: Chrome, Negative, Pastel, Disposable or Mono, and change it again before you save if you like. Tap to focus, pinch or tap .5, 1 and 2 to zoom, and the volume buttons take the picture too. ・Your own LUTs (Plus): import .cube LUT files and use them as films in the Spot camera, with grain and a vignette if you like. Tap + LUT at the end of the film row, or go to Profile › Settings › Camera.

・Fixed a bug where your record could disappear after the battery died while recording and the phone restarted. Every save now keeps the previous one alongside it and is written all the way to storage, so a sudden shutdown loses at most the last hundred metres or so. ・Saving no longer stops when the record file can't be read. The unreadable file is kept, the walks that can still be read come back automatically, and a walk that was cut off is kept up to its last saved point. ・If a save fails, PlainWalk tells you right away. ・Fixed the cat in a walk's details not facing the direction of travel while playing back a long walk.

・Your photos, as cards: open a spot and it comes as a card that tilts under your finger. Swipe sideways for the next one, and tap a card to turn it over and see where on the walk you took it. ・Fix a trail the GPS got wrong: open a walk in Records and tap the scissors. On the real map, pick the stretch that went astray, add a point and drag it onto the corner you walked. You can also cut a line the GPS guessed, or drop a wobbly start or end. ・Eight more colours for your map (Plus): soft ones like Peach and Teal, and bold ones like Mustard and Denim. Pick one in Layers. ・Photo pins in colour (Plus): Flat, Marker and 3D pins colour your spots by category. ・Apple Watch, redrawn: start, pause and finish from your wrist, and see new roads add up as you walk. The walk you just finished stays on screen for a moment, and on watchOS 11 your walk shows up in the Smart Stack too. ・A current-location button on the real map, and a fix for area badges whose outline and name could disagree.

・Your profile, redrawn: your rank, total pioneered, your own map and everything you have collected (spots, badges, shared maps) on one sheet. Settings moved behind the gear at the top right. ・Records, month by month: this week at a glance, the days you walked as dots, and every walk named after where it started. ・A membership card for Plus: with Plus, your profile card turns black and gold, with your rank on it. ・A feel for every tap: buttons and tabs answer with a light tap, and holding to end a walk beats like a heart until it finishes. ・Pioneered distance, counted more precisely: new roads are measured along every step, so totals may shift slightly.

・PlainWalk notices when you head out: under Profile > When you start moving, get a notification after a few minutes of moving and tap it to record, even when the app is closed. With Plus, the walk records itself. ・Shared maps, rebuilt: invite people with a link that opens straight from LINE, Messages or mail, and put your name next to your walks. ・Bring in walks from Strava and others: import GPX or TCX files under Profile > Import. Each track becomes a walk, and roads you had not walked yet count as pioneered.

・Shared blank maps: make a map with family or friends. Everyone's roads land on one sheet, and the roads more of you walk grow thicker. Only the walks you choose to send leave your device, and you can take them back anytime ・Add photos after a walk: forgot to add a photo during the walk? Open the walk in Records and add it. It lands where you took it ・See how much of each area you have walked: badges are painted with the ground you have covered, and your first walk in a new area is celebrated when it ends ・What's new, inside the app: after an update, one sheet shows what changed. Find it again in the menu or under Profile › About

・Destination flags: choose a place on the real map, and your blank map shows only the direction and the distance left. No route — how you get there is yours to decide ・Pick a place from the map: tap a shop shown on the real map to make it your destination. When you have not decided where to go, you can look around the map instead of searching ・Search for a place: results are sorted by how close they are to what you are looking at, and appear as pins on the map too ・Place details: opening hours, phone and website, from Apple's own place card ・Someday places: keep the places you want to visit one day on your blank map. Spot one while walking and tap it to head there ・Flags last for one walk. They all come down when it ends, so the next walk starts from a clean sheet

・Pioneer ranks: your rank rises with the distance you pioneer. A marathon, the edge of space, around the world, and on to the Moon — every step is a real distance ・Walking stats: tap the card on your profile for a day-by-day grid, weekly and weekday charts, and your personal bests ・Map colours (PlainWalk Plus): Mint, Blossom, Lavender, Sky, Sepia and Forest. They are used for share cards and timelapse videos too ・Trail and photo pin styles are now yours to choose (PlainWalk Plus) ・The map zooms out much further. Trails stay as smooth lines all the way ・A new option dims other trails while you record, for drawing with your walk ・Each walk now records its own step count ・Trails on the real map are drawn as smoothly as on your blank map

・Area badges: every town and ward you have walked becomes a badge in its own shape (Japan and Korea). Tap one to see your roads inside its outline ・A stronger share card: pick a white, transparent or photo background. Transparent lets you lay it over your own photo, and you can send it straight to Instagram Stories. Saving the image is now possible too ・Refine trails (on by default): the more often you walk a road, the steadier its line becomes ・The Profile tab is now a single, quieter card ・Fixed a bug where a Spot photo could fail to save

・iCloud backup (off by default): keep a copy of your walks and photos in your own iCloud, so a new phone or a reinstall no longer loses them ・Morning reminder: a quiet nudge before you head out. Change the time or turn it off in Profile ・Fixed the Real Map drawing a straight line across pauses and GPS jumps. It now matches the shape of your blank map

・First-time guide: an animated tour of how your map grows ・Share cards: your dotted map with spot bubbles, in square or story size ・Export 'watch your map grow' as a vertical video, ready for stories ・Apple Watch support: start, pause and finish recording from your wrist ・Start recording with one tap from a Home Screen widget or Siri ・Weekly recap: your week of pioneering, delivered quietly on Sunday evenings (optional) ・Spot collection: browse everything you saved, filtered by category ・An occasional ad may appear after a walk (remove ads with a one-time purchase in Profile) ・Plus a heading arrow, smoother trails (optional), and many fixes

・Spots: snap a photo on your walk and pin it to your map with a category (Food / Scenery / Shop / Favorite) and a note ・Walk detail: view a single walk's route full-size, with a playback that redraws it from a blank map ・Watch your map grow: replay the whole history of your map as a timelapse ・Redesigned recording controls: start → pause → hold to finish, with a little celebration card at the end ・Individual walk logs can now be deleted ・Fixes and refinements

・Added English and Korean ・Distances now follow your region (kilometers or miles)