Send to Garmin: send a trail, or a hike you recorded, to a Garmin watch, bike computer, inReach or handheld. On a trail page, tap Send route. Import your GPS files: bring in GPX, TCX and FIT files from a watch or another app, one at a time or many at once, zip files included. Follow my hike: share one live link and your family can see your planned route, your check-ins and when you plan to be back, with no app or account. Find it under More → Follow my hike. On a satellite connection, your saved maps keep working and the app waits for bars or Wi-Fi before downloading. If our map provider is ever unavailable, a backup map takes over so the map never goes blank.

Every trail, park, campground and thru-hike page now says plainly that The Outdoors App is independent and does not represent any government agency, and links the official sources behind our information. See them all under More → Data sources.

Thru-hikes now lead the Maps tab. Each one shows its route, distance, typical days on trail, states, where it starts and ends, and whether you need a permit. Filter by length or time on trail, sort, or search by a trail's initials, like PCT. Hold two fingers still on any map to measure the distance between them. Quick Measure takes up less of the map. Text and colors are easier to read in dark mode and bright sun, and screens hold up at large text sizes.

Trail maps now download ahead of time. Start recording on a trail or bookmark one, and its map — out to the distance you choose — is saved to your phone, on Wi-Fi only if you prefer. Manage it all in Profile → Offline maps. Every thru-hike now has an interactive elevation profile that shows where you are on it. Measure distances on any map with Quick Measure. Saved photos open full screen with no signal, and offline notices can be dismissed.

Save whole maps for use without signal. Download any map — your own, one shared with you, or a thru-hike like the Pacific Crest Trail — and it comes with you: the map itself, every waypoint and place, their details and photos. It opens, searches and exports with no signal at all. Long trails are sized for your phone. The whole route is saved at trail detail, and you choose the sections you want at full detail — the next hundred miles, or from one mile marker to another. You can see exactly what is saved: the saved area is shaded on the map, and the app tells you if you walk outside it. Downloads pause and pick up where they left off, and the app checks your phone has room before it starts. One Maps tab for everyone: your maps, maps shared with you, every thru-hike and the starter templates.

Dark mode. The app now follows your iPhone’s light or dark setting. Thru-hikes. The long trails on the Maps tab show where they start and end, when people usually walk them, and what permits they need. Every water source, resupply town, ranger station and bailout is listed and searchable from the trail page. Maps. Search a map’s places and waypoints from one field. Tap a place or a waypoint to see its photos and reviews, and add your own. The List/Map and Details/Map switch now sits in the top-right corner on every screen, in both views, so it is always where you left it. Sources & accuracy sits right under each trail’s description, with a link to report anything out of date. Tap “Verify before you go” to see how we keep information current and why conditions on the ground come first. Choose which emails we send you, under Profile → Notifications. Explore opens on where you are, and pages fit more on the first screen.

Campgrounds that showed "This campground did not load" now open. Trail, campground and campsite pages put what you came to do at the top: directions, reserve, bookmark, download for offline and share, all on the first screen. Download a trail or campground before you lose signal, and the page tells you exactly what is on your phone. An update that does not finish no longer touches the copy you already saved. Take any trail with you as a GPX, KML, GeoJSON or TCX file, for a GPS unit, a Garmin watch or another mapping app. Bookmark individual campsites, and open them again from Saved. Signing in brings you back to the page you were on. Only a map's owner can edit it.

The photograph on each map result now reaches the edge of its card, both in the strip along the bottom of the map and on the card that opens when you tap a pin. It is bigger, and it is the part that tells you which place you are looking at. Shared maps now have tighter permission checks.

**A FIX FOR 1.1.0** The last update could not reach the internet at all. Search came back empty, trails and campgrounds would not load, and every screen said you were offline whether or not you had signal. That is fixed — everything that needs a connection works again. If you updated to 1.1.0 and the app looked broken, it was, and this is the repair. Nothing you saved to your phone was lost.

RECORD YOUR HIKE Start a recording from any trail and your track is drawn as you walk. It keeps running with the phone in your pocket, and if the app is closed it picks up where it left off. Export a finished walk as GPX, GeoJSON or KML. FOLLOW THE TRAIL YOU CAME FOR Record from a trail page and it tells you how far along you are, how much distance and climb are left, and what the next waypoint is — and says so if you have left the route. SAVE A WHOLE TRAIL, NOT JUST A MAP The map, the photos, the description and the GPX all come with you. The map is cut to follow the trail's shape rather than a box around it, so the detail is where you are actually walking. SAVE A CAMPGROUND Every individual site, fee, amenity and photo, on the phone before you drive out of signal. ONE PLACE FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED Downloads shows your saved trails, campgrounds and map areas together, with what each one is costing you in storage — measured on the phone, not estimated. AND IT TELLS YOU THE TRUTH A download that did not finish says so, and says which part is missing, instead of showing you a map with holes in it at the trailhead. Saved copies show when they were saved, so you know whether the fees and closures you are reading are still current.