NEW • Plan ahead on a free walk: sketch where you're going next on the map and tap Guide me — the recording keeps running. Edit or drop the plan any time, and at the finish keep the part you didn't walk as a route. • Beam map to group: an event's organiser can send the trail map to phones nearby before the start, with no signal needed. • Reviews written in another language appear in yours, with Show original one tap away. • "How was the trail?" is asked once, on the hike page that Finish opens. • Sharing a longer version of your own trail asks whether to make the earlier one private. • The sign-in sheet marks the way you last signed in on this iPhone. • On iPhone Duo, unfolded, the map fills the screen and the panel floats beside it. CHANGED • Challenges count your recorded hikes inside the challenge dates; a distance typed in without a track no longer counts. Peak challenges count a summit when your track passes it. • An out-and-back route is no longer treated as a loop, so arrival and distance left are right on routes that return the way they came. • Your position no longer freezes after a GPS jump. • A recording that resumes far from where it paused no longer adds the jump to the route. • Following an Apple Watch hike on the iPhone no longer draws a line you didn't walk. • Photos stay on your iPhone until they have actually reached the community, and a sideways photo from the hike camera is saved in landscape. • Explore draws the same route the trail page shows. • A hike too large to upload now says so instead of failing quietly.

NEW • Finish saves the hike — no question first. Stopped early? The saved hike offers Continue hike and puts you straight back on the trail. • Start on Apple Watch is now the main button on a trail, and it says what it is waiting for while the watch starts and asks for permission. • Other routes from this trailhead are drawn over the route you are reading, so you can see whether it is the same walk or a different way up. • Your profile shows each hike with its photographs. A hike with no photograph draws the shape of the walk instead, from the phone — private hikes included. • The Live Activity leads with your next fork or turn and counts down to arrival every second; the lock screen adds battery and the climb still ahead. CHANGED • Deleting a hike with photographs shows them first and offers to save them to your library. • A watch already recording is offered "finish that hike and start this" instead of an error. The hike it ends is saved. • The trail sheet keeps its height when you swipe back, and dragging it no longer drags the page underneath. • Navigation's status line is translated; it had been English in every language. REMOVED • Navigation's layers button — it toggled route colouring for the whole app, which lives in Map style. • Max saver's screen no longer lists battery, ETA and pace; all three are one tap away on the map.

NEW • Max saver · eyes-free now shows one large direction arrow on true black. It is green on route, red off route, brightens when tapped, and dims after 10 seconds. • Trailheads Near You includes trails you created, and event setup can suggest a meeting point. • Activity recaps now include the photos from your walk. CHANGED • Finished walks save to your phone first and sync when possible. Accounts stay optional until you share, publish, or join the community. • Final distance filters stationary GPS drift while preserving the complete raw track.

• Swipe back naturally: trail, activity, profile, photo, event, and recap screens now follow your finger horizontally without blinking. • Trail details, Stamp Board, topo/3D previews, and activity sharing now have cleaner controls, spacing, and defaults.

• Your trails are on your Apple Watch without sending them there — anything you download or save syncs on its own, many trails at a time. The watch app now installs on Series 9, Ultra 2 and newer too. • The 3-D recap plays your photos where you took them: each one pinned on the route, opening as the replay reaches it. • Join a group hike and its trail downloads itself for offline while you still have signal — and the organizer hears that you're coming. • An invitation shows you the trail before it asks for anything, and "Sign in to join" now actually joins. • Signing in starts with your email and works out the rest — no more choosing between "sign in" and "create account". • A group hike's payment code now carries the amount, so nobody types the price into their banking app. • Links inside the app open the app: tap a trail or a hiker and you land on the real screen, in your language.

• Trail events, done properly: create one from a trail and you land on the event you just made — and events now sit directly under the trail's stats, date first, because they are the one thing on that page with a deadline • Your private hikes are back on your own profile, marked with a lock, and your lifetime totals match what the page shows • The drive home is no longer saved as part of the hike: when a recording ends with a stretch you clearly drove, the save screen offers to trim it, and nothing is cut without your answer • Spoken cues now speak your language, in a voice that speaks it — forks, turns, off-route, arrival, retrace and battery warnings, down to the compass directions inside them • Expedition mode: a dark theme whose deepest surfaces are pure black, so an OLED screen switches those pixels off when you are days from a charger • The route line is readable on any basemap, with a halo and a dark bed under the steepness colour, and where you are now draws over where you are going • Direction arrows along the whole route, live numbers that hold their place instead of jittering as they count, and a photo you can attach to a review from an iPhone • Less battery on a long day: the compass stops while the app is in the background, and navigation does less work on every GPS fix

• Walking a route in reverse now works from the moment you set off, not just once you are already on it: join a trail partway along and head back the way it was recorded, and the app locks on straight away instead of leaving the whole route showing as distance left • Loops started mid-way and walked the other way round are picked up within a few steps, and the whole walk counts toward finishing them • On trails that double back on themselves, walking the return leg no longer matches you to the leg beside it — so the climb ahead and the next waypoint are the ones you are actually walking to • The trip bar now leads with how far you have walked, beside distance left and moving pace • The sunset warning clears once the sun is down instead of staying up for the rest of the hike • New Map Style settings: set the route line's thickness, whether it shows direction arrows, and how other nearby trails are drawn — which are now much easier to pick out at a junction

• Fixed a crash that could quit the app when you finished a hike with the screen dimmed • Loops and trails walked in reverse now match properly: distance remaining counts down toward the end you are actually heading for, and arrival no longer announces itself at the trailhead • The dimmed part of the route follows your real position on the trail, in either direction • The elevation card draws your recording over the planned route, so you can see where the two differ • Hikes finished offline appear on your profile straight away, with your stats and badges updated • Peak Match: fixed labels that were showing placeholder text

• Fixed a crash that could quit the app when you finished a hike with the screen dimmed • Loops and trails walked in reverse now match properly: distance remaining counts down toward the end you are actually heading for, and arrival no longer announces itself at the trailhead • The dimmed part of the route follows your real position on the trail, in either direction • The elevation card draws your recording over the planned route, so you can see where the two differ • Hikes finished offline appear on your profile straight away, with your stats and badges updated • Peak Match: fixed labels that were showing placeholder text

• Added an icon-only floating tab bar for consistent navigation on iOS 18 and later • The Create tab keeps its familiar filled plus-circle icon • Improved tab transitions and layout compatibility across screen sizes

• Contour lines now appear across Explore, route planning, and trail maps, with clearer steepness colors and direction arrows • Elevation profiles and 3D recaps are cleaner and easier to read • Finish and Discard now reliably remove navigation Live Activities and turn alerts

• Peak Match draws the ridge in front as well as the peaks behind it — a near crest no longer hides what it cuts across • Peak names load reliably again, even in ranges with hundreds of summits • Turn the phone sideways and peak names stay upright • Explore's map controls are in two groups — finding a trail on the left, changing the view on the right

• Mark a spot using a photo you already took — the marking form now opens on the hike's own photos • The hike's photo folder is open while you walk, and shows your shots as a grid • Private trails now say so, and you can rename a trail you published • Recent walks show where they happened

• Redesigned hike photos with swipeable galleries, overlays, and richer photo details • Profiles now share the same stamp-board experience before and after sign-in • Signed-out hikers can open All Hikes and import workouts from Health

• Terrain stamps: finish a trail to earn a hand-carved seal shaped from its terrain, and collect them all on your sticker board • Recap flyover: replay a finished hike as a cinematic flyover of your route • Bug fixes and performance improvements

• Terrain stamps: finish a trail to earn a hand-carved seal shaped from its terrain, and collect them all on your sticker board • Recap flyover: replay a finished hike as a cinematic flyover of your route • Send your trail stamps in Messages — the new Trail Stamps iMessage app: tap a stamp to send it with a link to the hike, or peel one onto any bubble as a sticker • A floating camera on the navigation screen: take trail photos without losing sight of the map • Public hikes earn stamps — hide a hike and its stamp leaves your board; share it again and the same stamp comes back • Activity cards now lead with the route you walked, plus pace, climb, the weather, and the stamp that hike earned • More accurate elevation: your recorded climb is re-checked against topographic data, correcting barometer drift and GPS altitude spikes — and it works offline on downloaded trails • Bug fixes and performance improvements

• Trail photos: pinch to zoom and swipe to dismiss in the photo viewer, with smoother paging • Route planner: draw a route freehand and snap it to trails, jump to your location, and drafts autosave • Join and manage paid events • Apple Watch navigation improvements • Now available in Hebrew and Arabic • Bug fixes and performance improvements

• Sign in with Apple • Open onlytrails.app links straight in the app, and send trails from the web to your phone • Clearer offline banner and smarter location-permission prompts, with a re-grant shortcut in Settings • Explore and route planner refinements • Bug fixes and performance improvements

• Send any trail to Garmin, Suunto and other watches via GPX course handoff • Cleaner recorded hikes — smarter GPS smoothing filters out jitter • Redesigned trail detail with clearer, easier-to-scan sections • Apple Watch refinements • Bug fixes and performance improvements