¡Hola! LEADNAV GPS now speaks Spanish. Español (Beta). Settings > Language. Navigation speaks Spanish, the Waypoint Mic listens in Spanish, new waypoints get Spanish names, and the descriptions under every setting read in Spanish. English is unchanged unless you switch. Names in both languages. Switch languages and LEADNAV offers to convert the open package: marker and waypoint names in our dictionary change, your own words stay as typed, and Undo is one tap away. Mic Report (Pro). When the Waypoint Mic hears a word wrong and you fix the name, send the pair when you choose. Text only. Approved fixes reach every mic user through Mic Word List under Voice Prompts. Trigger Word (Beta, Pro). For when a passenger or an intercom shares the mic: the Waypoint Mic waits until it hears LEADNAV, then takes your note. Calibrate it once so it learns how you say the word, in English or Spanish. Waypoint Labels. Wrap long names onto two lines and put names left or right of the pin. Convert Markers by Name. A word now lives in one list only, and the match count shows what will actually convert. Team Comms. Voice messages turn into text faster and more reliably. Please give us a Review and Share!

This is a big one...biggest boost in capability since LEADNAV released in 2014...and just getting started. Consider this Phase 1 Team Codes and Comms - Build a team with one Team Code, a QR or an invite link. Teammates join in seconds and see each other on the map. - My Contacts is now My Team. Teams set up the older way are retired with this update; open My Team, tap Get a Team Code and share it. - Comms (Pro License): hold to talk from the pad on the map or from a wireless button. Every message is written out as text in the team thread, with an Unheard button for what you missed and a Radio Check. - Teams still start off when the app fully closes. If a team was on when the app last closed, the app tells you. PreRunning and buttons - Wireless buttons: two-button pads and single-button push-to-talk buttons. Drop waypoints, record tracks, zoom and talk without touching the screen. - Speed Highlighter (Pro License): your green, yellow and red dots paint the route in road order, however many runs it took to place them. - Ring alerts on every note you drop, on the route or off it, for every tier. - Off Route Alert (Pro License), off by default: a clear call when you leave the line, and which side the route is on. - Audible Markers now offers Off, Rings Only and All Markers. - Edit waypoints and notes from the map with a route loaded: Edit, Delete, Make Serpentine. - Undo: editor changes, Menu deletes, converts, joins and reverses can all be taken back. The editor X steps back one change, and Undo Last Change waits on the Trip Package page. - Route Editor guide on the info button beside Total Distance. Files and maps - Trip Package categories in the Menu, and Recently Deleted with thirty days to bring a package back. - Clearer import: see what a file holds, then start a new Trip Package or add it to one you have. - Join Multiple Routes and Convert Markers to Audio Waypoints (both Pro License) each get a live map view. - Export to GPS Unit: the whole Trip Package for a Lowrance or Garmin, long tracks delivered in parts. - Package Rules (Pro License): proximity rings and marker symbols by name, saved in the file and shared with it. - Recon, Aviation and Hunting marker sets are now free for everyone. - Tap a route, track or marker on the map for Run, Edit, Go To and Menu. - Background Map shows a sample of each map, with your current map marked. Also in this update: a rebuilt Menu and Settings, dark on every screen, a one-time What's New on the first launch after an update, and many fixes from weeks of field testing. Requires iOS 15 or later.

LEADNAV 6.47.1 MAP STORAGE CLEANUP NOW ASKS FIRST • 6.47 ran its map storage cleanup silently at launch. On heavily used devices that could lock the map for several minutes with no explanation, and it could repeat. Fixed. • The app now asks before cleaning: a card explains what it found and you tap Start Cleanup or Later. The offer only appears while you are parked, not navigating, and not recording. Progress and the amount reclaimed are shown on screen. • Deleting a saved map or clearing a map cache in Settings > Map now reclaims leftover data right then, behind a progress card, so the buildup cannot return. • Your saved offline maps are never touched. Map areas you viewed online but never saved reload the next time you visit them. • Saved-area names on the Download screen no longer disappear while another area downloads. Only the area currently downloading hides its label, so incomplete areas stay easy to spot. • Waypoint Mic (Beta) now listens in US English on every device. 6.47 used the iPad's language setting, so an iPad set up in Spanish listened in Spanish. Waypoint Mic understands English only for now; Spanish is planned. You can always type a name instead. • New in Settings > Voice Prompts: an Offline Speech Pack row. Offline speech in any app needs Apple's on-device English speech pack. On iOS 26 and later the row shows whether that pack is on this device and downloads it for you with progress. On older iOS the row opens the setup guide. • If Waypoint Mic is on and that file is missing, the app now tells you, once, when you turn the switch on or open the prerunner bar while parked, with a Download button right there (iOS 26 and later). The switch is never changed for you. • The Audio Input Troubleshooting guide is one tap away from Settings > Voice Prompts and the Mic Access alert. EVERYTHING FROM 6.47 IS INCLUDED FASTER MAPS: MAJOR STORAGE FIX • Fixed a long-standing storage issue: leftover offline map data built up over months of saving and deleting maps. Symptoms included minutes-long freezes when switching map types, slow map loading, and slow saved-area deletes. NEW: WIRELESS BUTTONS (Pro) • Pair wireless remote buttons in Settings > Buttons. One press drops a waypoint with the mic live, the next press saves it. A button can instead start and stop track recording. Part of our patent-pending prerunning system. NEW: POCKET PRERUNNER ON IPHONE (Pro) • The prerunner bar comes to iPhone as a slide-out. Run a route, pull the PRERUNNER tab: waypoint dropper plus a wipe-safe screen lock. NEW: WAYPOINT MIC (Pro, Beta) • Hands-free voice notes at speed, straight through your helmet comms. Drop a waypoint from the prerunner bar or a button and just talk. • Headset setup, do this once: Cardo users turn Intelligent Noise Block OFF (Cardo app, Advanced audio settings), it eats the first word of every note. Raise mic sensitivity one notch. Set phone-call volume high: the confirmation tones ride the call link. For offline use, enable iOS Dictation once in Settings > General > Keyboard. PRERUNNING SUITE (Pro) • Off Route Waypoints and Hotline Alerts: drops beyond the race line save at their true position and guide you off the line and back. • Edit at speed: tap any waypoint in run mode to edit or delete it. • Tap a track line on the map to select it, then convert it to a route or delete it. NAVIGATION AND FIXES • Direction-of-travel arrows on route lines. • Coming back to the course from a hotline now locks to where you rejoin, not miles behind. • External GPS antenna recovery if the antenna stream dies mid-run. • Landscape iPads no longer swing the map when you stop. • Waypoint save is instant and the confirm tone plays reliably over Bluetooth headsets. • Max zoom can no longer stick at 16 until relaunch.

LEADNAV 6.47 FASTER MAPS: MAJOR STORAGE FIX • Fixed a long-standing storage issue: leftover offline map data built up over months of saving and deleting maps, slowing everything down. Symptoms included minutes-long freezes when switching map types, slow map loading, and slow saved-area deletes. • The app now cleans this up automatically and keeps it clean. On heavily used devices the one-time cleanup runs in the background for a few minutes after updating, then maps are fast again. Your saved offline maps are not touched. NEW: WIRELESS BUTTONS (Pro) • Pair wireless remote buttons in Settings > Buttons. One press drops a waypoint with the mic live, the next press saves it. A button can instead start and stop track recording. Part of our patent-pending prerunning system. See the card in Settings > Buttons for hardware. NEW: POCKET PRERUNNER ON IPHONE (Pro) • The prerunner bar comes to iPhone as a slide-out. Run a route, pull the PRERUNNER tab: waypoint dropper plus a wipe-safe screen lock (pan and zoom locked, buttons stay live). NEW: WAYPOINT MIC (Pro) • Hands-free voice notes at speed, straight through your helmet comms. Drop a waypoint from the prerunner bar or a button and just talk. • Headset setup, do this once: Cardo users turn Intelligent Noise Block OFF (Cardo app, Advanced audio settings), it eats the first word of every note. Raise mic sensitivity one notch. Set phone-call volume high: the confirmation tones ride the call link. For offline use, enable iOS Dictation once in Settings > General > Keyboard. PRERUNNING SUITE (Pro) • Off Route Waypoints and Hotline Alerts: drops beyond the race line save at their true position and guide you off the line and back. • Edit at speed: tap any waypoint in run mode to edit or delete it. • Tap a track line on the map to select it, then convert it to a route or delete it. NAVIGATION AND FIXES • Direction-of-travel arrows on route lines. • Coming back to the course from a hotline now locks to where you rejoin, not miles behind where you left the line. • External GPS antenna recovery: the app recovers automatically if the antenna stream dies mid-run. • Landscape iPads no longer swing the map when you stop. • Waypoint save is instant and the confirm tone now plays reliably over Bluetooth headsets. • Max zoom can no longer stick at 16 until relaunch. • iPad next-waypoint text scrolls smoothly, live recordings always draw on top, and license codes activate on screen immediately.

GPS RELIABILITY - our biggest performance improvement to date: • External GPS (XGPS160) failover overhauled: if your receiver dies, disconnects, or loses signal, LeadNav switches to internal GPS in about a second - and switches back automatically when it returns. No more app restarts. • Fixed a rare frozen-position issue after locking/unlocking the screen. • Recording engine hardened for huge Trip Packages: file saves no longer interrupt the GPS stream, and unsaved edits are protected when the app is backgrounded or closed. • Fixed a rare route corruption that could throw a point across the globe - and affected files now repair themselves on load. • Track "Time" stat now shows true recording time. Max Speed is now immune to GPS glitches. GROUP TRACKING: • Saved team sessions are now far easier to review: teammate name tags at track endpoints, tap any track to identify the rider, and visible timestamps throughout. • Recording your own track while showing live teammate trails no longer competes for resources - proven with 12 live riders and a full race package on one device. • Fixed a launch crash when large saved team session overlays were left enabled. • Cleaner Group Tracking settings on iPhone and iPad. LICENSES - clearer names, more ways to pay: • Advanced Pack is now ENTRY LICENSE. Pro Pack is now PRO LICENSE. Same products, same features - clearer names. • New Licenses screen: live pricing, your plan status and renewal date, side-by-side tier comparison, and offer code redemption. • Monthly payment options are now available for both licenses. • Marker sets remain yours for life once unlocked. Plus battery improvements and UI fixes throughout.

Group Tracking gets a major upgrade for teams: • See who's active — every teammate now shows a live online/offline status and how often they're updating. • Live speed — view each teammate's current speed right on their map marker. • Breadcrumb trails — follow where teammates have traveled with a color-coded track for each member. • Saved team sessions — group-tracking sessions are recorded automatically so you can review, replay, or share them as GPS files. Also new: • "Collections" are now "Trip Packages" — same GPS file bundles, clearer name. • Offline map storage management to keep your downloads in check. • More update-interval options, with faster refresh rates for Pro. • Improved team color contrast, stability fixes, and UI polish.

Group Tracking — Big Updates • New Teams: organize the people you track into named teams, each with its own color and on/off switch — flip a team on or off to show or hide just those members on the map. • GoTo a teammate: tap anyone you're tracking and navigate straight to them — it follows their live position as they move. • Off-screen teammates now show as a color-coded marker at the edge of the map, pointing to them with live distance. • Faster updates with a selectable update interval and an instant first position when you start tracking. Performance & Navigation • Major speed improvements with large GPS files and long, detailed routes — smoother and cooler-running. • More accurate GoTo guidance — the "come left / come right" direction now points true to your destination. • Open-terrain GoTo guidance now works at walking pace, not just while driving. • Voice prompts play in the right order with better timing. Maps & Markers • Copy or share multiple markers at once. • Offline-map fixes and a new Performance setting. Fixes & Polish • More reliable group tracking. • Numerous stability and iPad fixes, including a reliably tappable settings button on iPad mini.

Big Update You may not notice anything new on the surface but we promise you the app has greatly improved on the backend. This will set the foundation for new features in the future. - Complete overhaul of our mapping and backend - Improvements to the GPS positioning and handling of the XGPS160 antenna - Graphic upgrades to Route and Track lines - Map “spin” became available with the new Mapping backend…more to come! We recommend a backup of your Collections (GPS files) and a delete of all your saved stored background map imagery cache, better yet a delete of the app and reinstall with this update is preferred. Again this is a full backend map update so your old saved background maps will not work. Not to be confused with your GPS files (Collections) as these will be fine and as .GPX files they will work anywhere. Just bring em back in after the update. For those paying attention to our Newsletters, You Tube channel and Social media we are also developing a HUGE capability in our new LN COMMAND / Juliet Ai which is being tested out and doubling in its capabilities daily….stay tuned!

- iOS 26.2 Bluetooth GPS fixes

Map Types - Bing has discontinued their Maps this month, so these no longer work. We removed those. - We added ESRI WORLD Imagery as an option to view for the Basic Core App users. This is the same top level Satellite map Imagery option that Advanced and Pro subscription users have had access to view and store for offline use

- Adjustments and improvements to external GPS Antenna handling - Updates to Subscription handling across multiple devices

- Rolled the external BlueTooth GPS antenna connection into one Blue Dot Satellite icon whenever connected. You will no longer see a DUAL logo but now your GPS signal indicator will go from Red (No GPS Lock), Green (internal GPS Lock available on the iPhone and cellular model iPads) and a Blue (external BlueTooth GPS being used) - Smaller decimal increments added for distances - Added the ability to Name your device in the app before sharing your Contact Info for Group Tracking - Fixed an issue where the Waypoint symbol was stretching across the "Next Waypoint" field in some cases. This has been hard to replicate but if anyone else still experiences this let us know...but we think we killed this bug! - Various bug fixes with iOS17 involving GPS positioning - Performance improvements - UI enhancements

Fixes for iOS17 Major - Fixed the Audio bug that stopped audio navigation after a short time Minor - Fixed some MENU label issues - Some other basic interface fixes

Some fixes reported by our operators in the field - Fixed issues with the UTM coordinate format and made it easier to enter in those coordinates - Minor bug fixes We appreciate your feedback so please take the time and give us a review!

Some tweaks and fixes - Added Done button to iPad settings screen to support iOS 12 and lower not allowing you to exit Settings - Fixed an issue where the settings page was changing sizes - Updated the purchasing process where it was having some random issues with verification - Updated the Restore button to work with our new server Thank you for all the support and letting us know how we are doing, Please give us a review!

Some slight upkeep and tweaks as we head into off-road season - Improvements to subscription handling and interface - Minor bug fixes - Fixed purchase screen graphics and text If you enjoy LEADNAV, please tag us on social media and leave a review!

Some slight upkeep and tweaks as we head into off-road season - Improvements to subscription handling and interface - Minor bug fixes If you enjoy LEADNAV, please tag us on social media and leave a review!

Continuing to update and overhaul our subscription handling through Apple - Minor fixes to the Restore purchase button for some instances where a current subscriber activates a new device Thank you for supporting with your feedback!

You definitely want this update! Major Bug Fixes - Last week we pushed a total overhaul to the subscription handling...unfortunately a few switches got flipped and things turned off. This made some Pro features not available to new users. Sorry...things happen but we appreciate those supporting us and letting us know! Features - They are all back We spent the past few months rebuilding subscription handling to include now offering our Satellite Group Tracking as an In-App monthly or yearly activation to use with Iridium GO! units and the separate Iridium unlimited services. Lots of capability added with that for offline, peer to peer group tracking. If you don't know what this is...don't buy it till you learn more from our website and have the hardware to run it.

Features - Added our Satellite Group Tracking subscriptions to be now purchased In-App!  - You also get per month pricing available as well as the traditional year pricing Not only does this free up our need to activate each and every device, but in turn it drops the cost across a number of Iridium devices sharing the same Group/Team iTunes account. **NOTE if you do not know what this is...you probably don't know how to use it nor have the satellite Iridium packages to actually run it. So, DO NOT PURCHASE IT until you learn more from our website. This is a service allowing you to see each other in the field in areas without traditional cellular or WiFi coverage. To do this, it requires satellite equipment and SERVICE. The only service we recommend is the Iridium GO! Unlimited plan, as anything else will burn out your data too quickly. Make sure you get that equipment and service lined up first. Terms apply as per website and we are not responsible for you not knowing how to use it after you purchase it. Most of our folks running this have been trained by us, in person, through our courses...or they happen to be computer geeks... In our experience, most desert racers AREN'T "computer geeks" (no offense)...so grab your kid or an IT person before purchasing. ***Also these are large auto renewing subscriptions...so remember to cancel prior to your next billing cycle if you do not wish to continue. Bug Fixes - Killed one that appeared recently where in certain instances GPX files were not able to import - Also, we hopefully killed a bug that showed new users that they had a Pro Pack subscription when they actually had not purchased one...bear with us as we just did a major overhaul to subscription handling As always, THANK YOU....and let us know if you like the app by giving us a review!

Cleanup and updates to In-App Subscriptions and handling - Advanced and Pro upgraded to auto-renewing! - Able to utilize Apple's better handling of subscriptions and promotions - Better over view of our subscriptions Remember to visit our new website and training page! Join our newsletter and You Tube channel.

Minor cleanup and updates - Eliminated the email entry in the core app for our non Enterprise customers. All subscription handling is done by Apple In-App - Relinked the Privacy Policy and Tutorials In-App to the new updated website Maps - Phasing out MapBox for ESRI you can download ESRI World Imagery for offline use instead of MapBox satellite Remember to visit our new website and training page! Join our newsletter and You Tube channel.

Minor Bug fixes - Stopped app from crashing when running cellular "on grid" tracking when in areas with weak to no cell service - Minor description and text updates - Made the Merging Route stacking bars brighter in the MENU list This is a minor update as some of our users get ready for the Baja 1000 desert race. MapBox Satellite will be getting phased out so we recommend switching over to using ESRI World Imagery instead or a custom map URL of your choosing Thank you and please give us a review!

Bug fix - As we made MBTile Overlays available to both Pro and Advanced subscriptions...something broke (Oops)...we fixed it! - Some small verbiage changes Please Review and use our You Tube channel and Community Forum to learn and share. Thank you!

LEADNAV 6.5 is here as we continue to work with our map providers (new and old) to offer you the best background map imagery we can provide. We are also rolling some highly requested Pro features down to our Advanced subscribers. Features - ESRI map imagery is here with Satellite, Terrain and Street available for offline prep for your next trip “off the grid” - Overlay / MBTile use has been bumped down from Pro and made available to our Advanced subscribers Fixes - Multiple bugs taken care of to include the new iPhone HUD display issues on certain smaller devices - Performance updates Note - Offline map imagery is offered through our outside providers and subject to changes they make to the terms of use and pricing. As we continue to work with these companies to provide the very best background mapping we can for our users, understand that this map imagery is intended to be saved and prepped per trip, used and deleted before going on your next trip, borrowing this imagery, versus storing indefinitely. However, there are even more advanced ways to prep and plan for your trips, subscribe to our You Tube channel and join our Community Forum to learn more! Remember to give us a review!