A much clearer Booked Time Off page, a tidier Settings screen, and smoother typing. Booked Time Off has been redesigned. Weekday totals now add up, sick time and union time sit side by side, and your bookings are grouped by month. The keyboard no longer gets in the way. Every text box lets you put it away, and nothing hides behind it. Watch list items can now be edited in place instead of deleted and added again. Settings is simpler. Region shows just its name and the Data section is down to a few clear groups. Support and legal links now live in one About card. The app opens straight to your units and the Field Guide. Maintenance tracking, Recurring Events, most PDF reports and the robot are tucked away for now. Big PDFs in the Docs tab hold up better. If your phone runs short of memory while you zoom in, the document reloads on its own instead of going blank.

Your backups now carry everything. The PDFs attached to each unit go into Export My Data and iCloud Backup, so moving to a new phone leaves nothing behind. Before a restore, the app shows the file's date and what is in it, and warns you if the file came from the other app. Backup files now open straight into the app from Files or Mail. The Field Guide is steadier. Jumping to a section by its number lands on the heading and stays there (a trailing period, as in "Section 8.6.8.15.", works too). Back no longer fights a jump, Contents and bookmark jumps wait for the page to load, bookmarks have their own section, and downloads show their progress. Settings is one tap away from the Elevators tab. The opening animation plays only on first launch and a tap skips it. The tour can't skip the region step, and "Got it" tips stay dismissed once you dismiss them. Also in this version: Photo Cleanup's age buttons only touch service and ticket photos, sample units keep any notes you add to them, Hours and the Dashboard roll over to the new day at midnight, and Help & Support and the privacy policy open the app's own pages.

Settings is easier to find your way around. Open a section and you get a short, clear list, and the bigger tools (exporting your data, backups, iCloud Backup and photo cleanup) each have their own screen now. The Field Guide's microphone is back at the bottom of the screen where your thumb can reach it, and it now sits just above the keyboard, so typing never hides it.

Moving to a new phone is easier. When the app is empty, you can now import your backup file straight from the first screen. If you pick the wrong file from an unzipped backup, the app now tells you your photos and documents aren't in it and points you to the right one. And if anything doesn't come back during an import, it says so plainly. The Helper field now always starts with the last helper you used. Mechanic Quick-Switch has been removed to keep the dashboard simple. Picking a mechanic from the hard hat at the top works as before.

New: iCloud Backup. Turn it on in Settings, under Backups & Restore, and once a day a complete copy of your records, photos and documents goes to your own iCloud Drive. Only you can see it. It stays off unless you switch it on, and a new iPhone can restore straight from it. Ask the Field Guide longer questions, typed or spoken. The search box now grows as you talk, so you can read the whole question back before you send it. Searching your units is more dependable, including units with a field left blank. The Region setting now spells out exactly what your chosen region changes.

When you first open the app you now choose between exploring with sample data or starting fresh with your own route, and sample data opens with a mechanic already in focus. The Field Guide's voice button sits at the top of the screen where the keyboard can't hide it. Hold it for as long as you like: it keeps listening until you let go, and gives a firmer buzz when it starts. Moving between search, answers and Contents behaves the way you'd expect, answers name the region and code edition they're written for, and when something goes wrong it tells you whether it's a lost signal or something else. Time tickets and service records keep your work if a phone call or app switch interrupts you. Backups are sturdier, numbers typed with a comma (12,5) are read correctly, Day Summary lists hours in the same order as the work performed, and Lost Unit stands out in red. Large text sizes and VoiceOver got a lot of work: cards stay compact at larger text, words no longer break mid-line, and every button and text box is reachable and labelled. iPad layouts are sized better too.

Tapping anywhere on a Monitoring card now opens it, not just the title.

Every PDF report has a new look. Reports open with the key numbers up front, group units by building, and mark each unit's status at a glance. Reports that run past one page now keep proper margins throughout, and a building's name stays with its units. Action Items on the Monitoring tab are now a checklist. Log each problem on its own line and tick it off when it's fixed. Your existing notes carry over. Delete the last item and the card clears itself off the list. Filling in a time ticket is easier: the field you're typing in now sits fully above the keyboard. Buttons now rearrange themselves to fit larger text sizes, so words are never split across two lines. The keyboard no longer covers the Monitoring tab's report options.

The Field Guide search box now has a button to tap, not just the keyboard's Enter key. Also fixed an issue where using your phone's own dictation to ask a question could cut off partway through.

Small improvements under the hood for a smoother experience.

Now on iPad. Elevator Field Command runs as a proper iPad app, with your route, records and the Field Guide laid out for the bigger screen. A cleaner top of every screen. The header is the same on every page, with the same Back button in the same place and buttons lined up the way they should be. Field Guide: opens straight from your saved copy and fetches the latest behind it, so a weak signal in a machine room never leaves you waiting. Clearer buttons at the top, "Back to app" and "Search". The phone's back gesture now steps back through your search instead of leaving the guide. One export file for everything. Your export is now a single zip with your records, photos and manuals inside, however many you have, and older export files still open. Photo Cleanup, in Settings under Data. See how much space your photos take, remove the ones no longer attached to any record, or clear out photos older than a year, 18 months or two years. Mark a photo Keep Forever in the Documents Vault and no cleanup will ever touch it. Also: searches stay put when you open a unit and come back; a second key added to one unit goes onto every unit in the building; the missing-documents notice on Docs can be cleared; sample data shows a realistic eight-hour day; and a "Read the latest newsletter" button in Settings opens the newest Counterweight issue.

Elevator Field Command is now free. Every feature is unlocked for everyone, with no subscription. The Elevator Field Guide is here. A plain-language companion to A17.1 / B44 that answers questions typed or spoken, for the code edition your province or state has adopted. Press and hold the microphone on the search screen to ask with your voice. Pick your region from the full list of provinces and states. Units now carry number of ropes, rope size, and number of openings. Photos and receipts have their own places on tickets and service records, and the Documents Vault can move a photo to the right record. The app is still under development and asks for a password on first open.

New dashboard with personalized greeting, animated stats, and weekly hours chart with overtime tracking. Urgent ropes section shows color-coded unit info at a glance. Shutdown units now display date and duration. Smooth animations throughout all charts and metrics.

-it’s now easier to track monthly maintenance. Indicator on each card and a filter option. -updated sample data