Your 2026 in Places: open your year from your profile. The photo that opened it, the places you stood, a postcard to send, the trips worth keeping. Read from your photos on your phone; nothing uploads unless you share a page.

Search for a city and the map now lands on it, under its own name. If Photerra hasn't mapped it yet, it says so and shows the nearest places that are, measured from there. Photos from Photerra's open archive now say who took them and under what licence on the welcome map's previews, saved trips and profiles too. "Go to my places" takes you to your places, and walking and cycling times appear only where you could walk or ride.

Photerra is in the share sheet: share a plan, a list or a Google Maps link to bring it in as a trip, or share photographs to add them as spots. You can also paste a plan from the app icon's menu and say which city it is for. Photerra places what it can and tells you what it left out. A trip's map now draws its route from day to day, and Directions open the trip's stops and places in Google Maps day by day. A spot's page shows one clear record of when and where the photo was taken, the places from your own photos show on the Mine layer, and AI-written descriptions say so.

A spot's page now shows what the camera recorded: when it was taken, the light, which way it faced, where the person who took it stood, the camera and settings, and how long they stayed. The ways to start a trip follow the dates of your photographs, and the Trips sheet leads with what you have. Saving a spot from its page keeps the photograph's date. Adding a recap's places to a trip tells you how many made it. A trip without chosen dates no longer matches today's photographs by accident. Signing out right after an update stays signed out.

The + button can start a trip, and a trip can be built from the spots you saved as well as your own. The spot card on the first screen opens the spot. Sharing a trip sends a card with the route on a map, your photos at their stops, the dates and the counts. A trip's travel times no longer guess a walk across water: a stop the road does not reach says so. "Tell me when photos appear here" now asks to send notifications. The gold rings on the map stack like the photo pins, and the map's search survives a switch to another app.

New since 3.3.61: after an upload the map shows your new spots right away, including the ones still being checked; the upload summary's map draws one dot per place with the number of photos there, so the dots add up to the count above; uploads of several photos run faster, because the next batch sends while the previous one is being processed.

New since 302: the map's photo stacks hold still while you pan — the same pins always group the same way, and a stack keeps its photo and count; the upload card's bar now agrees with the count beside it; words on photographs sit on a solid band and stay readable over bright photos.

Photerra 3.3.60 (302). New since 301: the analytics library is updated (it fixes a launch crash some phones hit), and a spot is never named after a bare road number when nothing better is known. Please try: open the app cold a few times, browse the map and open a photo; send feedback from TestFlight if anything looks off.

A new bar along the bottom: Map, Saved, Add, Trips and Profile. Saved keeps every spot and trip you've saved in one place. Add opens with the places in your photos that aren't on the map yet. The map's Photos view shows the pictures around you, and Golden hour finds photos taken in the last light of the day. Text now grows up to twice its size with your iPhone's text size, Reduce Motion stops the map's flights, and a trip's stops can be moved from the VoiceOver actions. Screen titles are headings for VoiceOver, and the tab names are easier to read. On iPhone Duo, a saved trip sits beside its map, Search this area stays at the foot of the map when you open the phone, and screens fit again when you close it. Your traveler type follows the same rules as your first scan, and a type you choose stays yours. A place on photerra.com opens the app at that place. Booking links that had stopped working open their pages again, and a trip's dates reach partners on the right day. The notification dot clears when you open your notifications. Erasing your travel map now also clears the private places this phone kept.

On iPhone Duo, the map, the photographs, the lists and the sheets now reach the very edge of the inner display, and a spot's photograph fills its side with no white column. A sign-in made while the app is still signing the last session out is kept. A deleted spot disappears from every screen at once. Adding a place to a trip never adds it twice, even on a weak connection. The map's hints take you to where the photos are, and a trip's place search says what it couldn't reach instead of "no photos". Notifications say what was liked: your spot or your trip. VoiceOver names every row of the "Add to this trip" sheet.

Built for iPhone Duo. Open the phone and the screen you're on fills the inner display, with your search or spot still open. Close it and you're back on the outer display, right where you were. Text and buttons stay the same size. The time of day under a photo is now read from the sun where it was taken, so it says "golden hour" only when the sun was low. The map shows each place once, with a count when photos share it, and an empty map takes you to the nearest place with photos. Your saved photos show on the map, under Saved. A trip's search finds places nobody has photographed yet, and a stay or a place on a trip is pinned by finding it by name. The upload summary's map says what the upload did, and the loader comes up the moment you choose your photos. When a session has ended, you land on Sign in once, and the app signs out fully. On slow Wi-Fi the app no longer waits up to ten seconds to open. The trip editor's map, and your profile's map beside the list on iPhone Duo, pan and zoom again.

Start with the photos. The first screen leads with mapping the photos already on your phone, and your recap offers the trips they add up to, saved whole and drawn as places. Bring in a plan from anywhere: paste a booking, a message or a link and its stops land on the map, opening on a day-by-day Plan. Share a trip with anyone by link. A map inside a page stays put while the page scrolls. Nearby follows you, and a map you moved stays where you put it. Sign in with Apple is steadier, a session that has ended lands on Sign in with the reason said once, and every control says what it is to VoiceOver. Text keeps its design size on every phone, and the first screen's headline stays whole. On iPhone Duo, each photo sits beside the place it was taken: the map, a spot, a trip and your profile open in two panes.

Bigger text fits: sign-in and every form now scale with your text size. The welcome screen offers both ways in — map your photos, or explore first. An empty map always has a way back: "Show me the closest" flies you to the nearest photographed place. A spot's note saves reliably, and an upload leads straight to its note. Trips: a one-stop trip shows no drive, a dated trip keeps its days, and the tab scrolls past its footer. A sheet's text field stays above the keyboard. Plus a dozen smaller fixes across sign-in, the camera and the review screen.

Better screen-reader support: buttons, switches and form fields across the app now say what they are and what state they are in, so VoiceOver reads them properly. Also fixed: • A city search in list view showed spots hundreds of miles away. • A shared trip showed two different stop counts. • A saved trip bounced you back to the list when opened offline. • A panorama left the photo beside it a sliver. • The suggestion list reopening over the map after you picked a city.

Spots now say plainly where a photo was taken: "taken right here" for a traveler's own shot, and clearly marked when a location was placed by hand. Offline trips open even with no signal. Faster first load, a simpler sign-up, and steadier photo scanning.

Every pin now shows the other photographs taken at that place, each with its own photographer and licence. Also in this release: • The map stops saying "Searching this area…" after it has finished. • Settings describes what is actually public, and the privacy card matches the toggles you set. • Sharing says what went wrong when it fails, instead of failing quietly. • Trips get stop roles, a real timeline and an on-device copy, and My Trips tells you when it could not reach the network. • Signing out leaves nothing of the previous account behind.

Fixes a crash when opening some spots. Archive photos now show their credit everywhere. Steadier search and trip-stop suggestions.

Fixes a crash when opening some spots. Archive photos now show their credit everywhere. Steadier search and trip-stop suggestions.

Your first spot now publishes as a quiet contributor by default — your name appears only if you choose it. Change anytime in Settings.

Your badge celebrations now always appear — including when you add several spots in a row — and badge wording is more precise. Plus the latest round of upload, search, and map improvements.

Creating your first spot is smoother: the photo picker now says what happens next, and backing out never discards your photos. Maps and search show accurate spot counts and clearer messages when an area is quiet. Distances now match your local units. Plus many stability and accessibility improvements.

Clearer sign-in help: if Apple sign-in isn't available on your device, Photerra now explains why and offers email sign-up instead of a generic error. Refreshed welcome screen. Small fixes and better diagnostics throughout.

Trip refinement controls now step back when a destination doesn't have enough mapped spots to rework, rather than offering choices that can't help. If the feed stops partway, a tap retries it. The trip-map reveal no longer closes itself, and the Saved screen refreshes properly.

Fixes for the first run. The camera-roll scan no longer runs out of memory on a large library, and your reveal is built from the whole roll rather than its oldest part. Places you have already mapped no longer crowd out the ones you have not.

Bug fixes and improvements.