- New option in the settings to configure the "activity" mode for the location services of the iOS. * The "Standard" option is usually best for general use cases if there's no other more specific option available (the iOS should not pause location updates even when the user doesn't move for a while as long as this action is active). * The "Automotive" option is best if you drive vehicles on roads (the iOS might pause location updates when the vehicle doesn’t move for an extended period of time). * The "Fitness" option is good for workout activity (the iOS might pause location updates if the user doesn’t move a significant distance over a period of time) * The "Airborne" option is good for all activities related to flying (airplane, helicopter, paragliding, skydiving etc) * The "Not tied to roads" option is good for activities that are not bound to roads or trails, Indoor and Outdoor (the iOS might pause location updates if the user doesn’t move a significant distance over a period of time). - There are some new options available to make the trigger for actions more specific. * The "Heading" options allows you to define in which direction you need to move in order to trigger the action. So you could make sure the action only ztriggers when you leave the region to the north, but not to the south, for example. * The "Type of locomotion" allows you to define whether the action should only be triggered when driving a vehicle or walking. In both cases the check for these options is done when the main trigger is activated (for example leaving a region) by the iOS. The "Locomotion" option checks if there were steps counted in the last 30 seconds to determine whether you are walking or driving. - A new Homescreen Widget can show the speed and altitude graph of the latest track recording. Tap the graph to toggle between speed and altitude, in case only one of the graphs is visible (only the large widget will show both graohs at the same time) - There are many additionals icons available to annotate saved regions or visited regions - It's now also possible to only show the visited regions (from the Diary feature) without their connections to each other on the map. - Bugfix: On the iPad changing the size of the sidebar did no longer work. - Bugfix: The option "Auto-Stop at same location" was removed for the "significant location change" trigger of the actions because this option only makes sense for concrete locations, not random/undefined ones.

- Fixes a visual glitch under iOS 26 if a semi-transparent background for the main window was used. In this case the iOS does not always respect the background color set for certain UI elements and therefore the indicator for the selected theme color in the settings was not visible. - Reduces the memory usage while importing GPX and KML files which include an unusual huge number of Tracks. - Fixes an issue when the device was rebooted while a track recording was still active. The recording should continue automatically when the iOS is running again, but it could have failed.

- It is now also possible to import "KMZ" files (KMZ is a varation of Googles KML format) - New option available in the user interface setting to change the semi-transparent background - New actions added for the Shortcuts App (to retreice the current latitude, longitude, altitude, speed and heading) - Workaround added for a bug od iPadOS 26 which indicates that the step counter is available even though this hardware does not exist - Fixes an issue with certain colors in dark mode under iOS 26 for the "label" buttons within the tracks information

- There are new actions available for the Shortcuts App to start/stop the step counter and to start/stop the track recording - Fixes a few "liquid glass" glitches under iOS 26 - Fixes a few visual glitches under iOS 18 and older which are caused by the new bigger liquid glass controls.

Fixes an issue when auto-resuming interrupted track recordings (for example if the device was rebooted, a system update is installed, memory pressure or other reasons the App could be terminated while a recording is active).

- Support for iOS 26 (Liquid Glass), the menu bar on the iPad provides direct access to the key features. - New home screen widget available which can show the last visits - Tapping on notifications about entering/leaving locations, visits and tracks will now open these locations, visits or tracks. - Bugfix: The "Steps" widget did not always update itself - Bugfix: The option to name a newly recorded track based on the place of the longest break could fail, if there is no saved region near that place. Now the App uses the address of this place. - Bugfix: If HealthKit is not available, the features which require the HealthKit will be now hidden. - Bugfix: The slider to configure the track filter (smoothness of the track) was not always shown - Bugfix: When sorting visits by months, visits which span multiple days could be listed multiple times - Long pressing the play/stop button to play the track animation allows to change the speed for the animation. - It's possible to configure an individual icon for all saved reagions/places and visits. This makes it easy to categorize regions by icon (use a "bed" icon for a hotel, a "tree" for a park etc).

- New diary function. If you have activated the diary in the settings, all places visited are automatically saved in the diary (with arrival and departure times, length of stay, address, coordinates, number of visits). Various values about the places visited can be compared in a bar chart and exported as CSV. The length of stay from which a location is to be included in the diary can be defined in the settings. The diary is a very simple way of obtaining an overview of all the places visited, fully automatically without any configuration effort - Several tracks can now be displayed on the map at the same time (max. 25 at the same time). To do this, go to “Edit” mode in the tracks list and then select the relevant tracks. You can then use the "Map" icon at the bottom to display the selected tracks on the map. - There are new sorting options for the list of all locations. The locations can now also be sorted geographically (north to south, west to east, etc.) or by distance from the current location. - There are the same new sorting options for the actions if they are grouped by location. - It is now also possible to display a track from the tracks list on the map by long-pressing the entry without immediately opening the track details. This allows you to switch quickly between different tracks on the map

- Added several new icons for activities. - Bugfix: The speed the dashboard of the Watch App shows were too high - Bugfix: The App should no longer block for a short while when saving extremly long recorded tracks - The alternative list views for the recording screens in the Watch App makes more use of the available space.

- Bugfix: The Watch App did not calculate the duration of a track recoding correctly - For actions of the type 'track recording' or 'long-term recording' the auto-stop option will be now set to 24h or 14 days by default instead of being open-ended. This should avoid that the recording will never end in case the trigger to end the recording is never hit. This can be always changed to other values, if needed. Also the values can now be defined by hours or das instead of minutes. - Bugfix: Under iOS 18 it could happen that the sound volume was not always restored properly after multiple messages were spoken via Speech output.

- Bugfix: Location-based actions which were supposed to launch an App did not work - Tapping on the map should now always create a storable pin, even when tapping a place without a name or address in the middle of nowhere. - When creating new actions from within a folder (e.g the actions are grouped by region, trigger, action, label etc), the group parameter of that folder is now automatically filled in and doesn't need to be set manually anymore. - During an active recording and when the recorded track is shown on the map, it is possible to inspect details of the already existing part of the recorded track (speed, heading etc). It is no longer necessary to wait until the recording has finished to get the details. - Bugfix: The chart of the time tracking statistics with a open date range did not show the data of the current day.

Because of a bug in iOS 17.5/watchOS 10.5 the communication between iPhone and Apple Watch is no longer working correctly when transferring files from the watch to the iPhone. The watchOS does no longer get the information wether the file was transferred correctly or not. So if the Pado Watch App sends a track to the iPhone and the track was successfully transferred the WatchOS is supposed to tell Pado that the file was transferred correctly. But because this doesn't happen anymore, Pado on the Watch still assumes that the file was not yet transferred and therefore tries to resent the track later again (and again). In general this isn't a big issue and would not be noticed, unless you delete the track on the iPhone, in which case it would reappear again when the Pado Watch and Phone Apps are communicating again.   The new release of Pado implements a workaround to prevent that the track is resent again. However because it never gets any information about the success of these transfers, it still marks all the tracks as "not yet sent to the iPhone". As soon as Apple fixes this bug of iOS/watchOS evertyhing should go back to normal

- The WebHook parameters can be customized, so that you can now also send WebHook requests to devices which only accept very specific parameter names and values. You can change the parameter names of all the default parameters, but also add completely new parameters and their values (in the settings under "WebHook"). - A new option in the settings allows to change the x axis of track chart to either show the absolute time or the duration (relative from the track start) - The "needle" icon on the Map now also includes the option to zoom to the start and end of a track, if a track is shown on the map. - The Track-specific settings now provide an option to add a general description for the track, which unlike a "note" is not bound to a specific coordinate - Bugfix: The "Filter" options for the tracks list offers to search for tracks which go through a certain location. It should have been possible to search for a location that is currently not saved a region already, but this did not work. This is fixed now - Bugfix: In very rare cases when iCloud sync for tracks was enabled, a track recording was successfully synced to the iCloud, but because of a strange response of the iCloud the track data was deleted on the device. This should not happen anymore and the new release should also load the missing track data from the iCloud again

- There's a new option in the "Track Recording" settings where you can define the accuracy for the recorded data. Previous versions of the App always used the best accuracy. When reducing the accuracy the recorded tracks need less space and the battery usage can be lower as well. The accuracy setting only affects the standard track recording. - Battery consumption optimization for the "Track recording" Live Activity. This widget should need less energy now. - Battery consumption optimization for the Watch App - Bugfix: The "Autostop" option when entering a region for geo-based actions which were triggered by leaving a region did not always work - The Notes feature will now show some basic information about the location below the note

Fixes a very rare crash when setting/editing tags.

- There's a new widget for the Homescreen available which shows the steps of the currently active step counter as bar chart - Fixes an issue where the recording view on the iPhone did not update itself when the recording was started/stopped remotely on the Apple Watch. - Fixes the duration that was shown on the Apple Watch in the alternative recording view. - Fixes an issue where the main menu on the iPad did not show up when it was hidden - Fixes an issue where displaying the speed/altitude charts for long long-term tracks was too slow.

- When defining a geo-based action to start a recording it is now possible to directly define the track color for the tracks which are created by this action. - The Tracks view has now an option to animate the travel route of the track on the Map and the chart. The "play/stop" button can be found in the charts view for the track and when tapped will show an animation of the whole travel route on the Map (a Pin which moves on the track based on the recorded speed) and the information window on the chart will show the details as well. Long-pressing the play/stop button lets you play the animation in different speeds. - When importing GPX or KML files the new release will now show a list of all tracks, routes and places that are found in these files (if there're more than one), so you can select only those items you actually want to import. - The Watch App has now alternative Dashboards for the recording view as well (simply tap into the dashboard to toggle between the two options) - The App provides a larger collection of unique colors for the charts to avoid reusing existing colors when a larger number of data values have to be displayed. - Bugfix: When using the "remote control" feature on the watch for the step counter running on the iPhone, stopping the step counter did actually work, but did not show the new status on the watch. - Bugfix: Importing GPX tracks from other Apps via ShareSheet did not work if the App was terminated before from within the task switcher - Bugfix: The charts for the Timetracking feature could crash in case the time/duration unit settings were configured to the extra long time option. - Bugfix: Pasting a UUID value into the text field when defining a Bluetooth beacon did not work

Bugfix: When defining time/date restrictions for location-based action the configuring the allowed start and end time did not work.

- The filter function for saved tracks has been optimized and no longer blocks when filtering locations (when there are thousands of tracks). Filtering by location can still take longer if there are thousands of tracks, but now runs in the background - The filter function can now also filter by date and time - When restoring data, the backup function now only offers data that can actually be found in the backup. - There is a new setting to display the status of the step counter and track recording in the navigation bar of the main menu (so the status remains visible even when the menu is minimized). - You can now also assign tags to saved tracks, which can then be used to group the tracks list. - It is now easier to specify the tags (tracks & actions) via a selection list - The input dialog for numerical values now has a "Undo" button with which you can undo changes again - There is a new option in the navigation bar: the button at the top right can not only switch between two sizes when tapped, but can now also be long-pressed and then opens a menu that can be used to switch between several sizes. On the iPad, the entire view on the left-hand side can also be completely hidden in order to see the map in full screen. - The Watch App now also has an alternative dashboard layout; you can switch between the two layouts with a single tap. - On the Apple Watch, entries in the steps and tracks list that have not yet been synchronized to the iPhone are now marked with a dot. - Bugfix: Under certain circumstances, the calculation of the duration of breaks did not work - Bugfix: On the Apple Watch, the view was not updated immediately when manually transferring the data to the iPhone. - Bugfix: Loading saved locations could fail if the locations date back to iOS 5/6 and have never been changed and no locations have been added or deleted since then

- Fixes a few issues which potentially could result in a crash under very special circumstances - It turns out that HealthKit has issues with tracks (exported to HealthKit) if these have "gaps" of more than 5 seconds (for example in areas with bad or no GPS reception, like in tunnels, buildings etc). In this case HealthKit simply doesn't save the track or at least the Fitness App doesn't show them. The new Pado release will now fill these gaps with "dummy" data to work around this issue. - New WebHook feature: Time Tracking (check-in/check-out) and Track Recording (start/stop) can be now also reported to the WebHook server. For time tracking this can be enabled individually for each time tracking entry. For track recordings you can enable this is the settings. If enabled Pado will send information about the current region or location to the webhook server whenever the status changes. There will be a new "source" parameter sent to the webhook server which can be used to find out from which source the information is coming, possible values are "action", "recording", "longtermrecording" and "timetracking". For time tracking the enter/exit parameters will be used to tell the server whether Pado has entered or exited the region. For recordings the parameters "start" and "stop" are used to indicate wether the recording was started or stopped.

There were a few issues in the new App version which are addressed with this update: - Bugfix: Importing GPX files could fail - When importing GPX files without speed information, Pado will now calculate the speed information itself - Bugfix: Opening the Stepcounter could freeze the App in case the Stepcounter is still running and was running for an extremely long time (years). The new release will show the progress in a chart and putting years of data in one chart is actually far more than the iOS charts framework can handle. So the step counter will now limit the data that is shown in the chart. - Bugfix: When using the WebHook feature to be notified about significant location changes, not all of the data that was sent before was sent with the new version. - There's a new switch for the WebHook feature where you can decide wether the message information is only sent to the webhook server or also posted as local notification to be notified on the phone about these webhook actions. - When sharing coordinates (tap or long-press on coordinates) will now also provide options to explicitly share these to Apple, Google and Bing Maps.

GENERAL INFO Pado will soon be 10 years old and therefore has a long history. So it was time to put Pado on a new, modern technical footing. Version 3 of Pado has therefore been reprogrammed and redesigned from scratch. All the old familiar features have of course been retained, but are now technically up to date and modernized. I hope you like the result. I look forward to any feedback, comments, suggestions for improvement and also bug reports are welcome. NEW FEATURES - The new user interface can be customized in the settings - The map view now also supports the "look around" feature - In the new version, the map is now always visible in the background, the menu can be freely positioned above the map on the iPhone. At any time you can now decide how large the proportion of the map and the other app functions should be. - NFC tags (including Apple's AirTags) can now also be used as triggers for location-based actions. - Access to the app's stored data can now be secured via FaceID/TouchID. - Tracks can now also be exported to the Health app - New interactive widgets (for iOS 17) allow you to control the app (track recording, pedometer, time tracking) from the home screen or lock screen without having to start the app - Extended support for Live Activities/Dynamic Island shows data from an active pedometer, an active track recording and time tracking via the Lock Screen or Dynamic Island. - Many other major and minor enhancements in most areas of the app - The built-in help should describe all the features. PAYMENT MODEL With Pado 3, the payment model has changed. The previously paid app is now offered free of charge and can therefore be fully tested without any payments. There are now three app levels: - Free: A maximum of 3 locations, 3 actions and 3 entries for time tracking can be created - Standard (one-time purchase): A maximum of 25 locations, 25 actions and 25 entries for time tracking can be created. - Pro (one-time purchase): Any number of locations, actions and entries for time tracking can be created. Everything else is available in all three levels without restrictions Users who have already purchased earlier versions of the app will automatically receive the Standard level free of charge. If restrictions have already been reached, existing actions/locations are not restricted, i.e. the app remains fully usable. By purchasing the update, however, you can upgrade to the Pro version at a reasonable price. New users can now react more flexibly to their own needs and use one of the three options as required. An inexpensive update from the Standard to the Pro version is also available at any time, in case you need more than you initially thought. There is still no subscription and no ongoing payments. But there is now also a tipping option for all those who value the app more than the small one-time payments and want to do something good for the developer.

- There's a new trigger for geo-based actions available which can trigger the action whenever the device has significantly changed its location. This trigger is not based on a certain region, it always triggers when the device has moved significantly. The iOS itself defines what is considered as a "significant location change" (which is approx 500 m, max every 5 min) and can do this with almost no impact to the battery life. This trigger is most useful if you want to track your movement permanently and use the Web-Hook feature to store all the data. - There're new geo-based actions which can be used to start or stop long-term recordings. - For all actions which are defined to start a track recording, there's an option to automatically stop the recording again after a certain time or when the region where the recording has started was reached again. Using this option you often don't need to explicitly define another action to stop the recording again. Even though a second action to stop the recording can be much more flexible, because a dedicated action for stopping the recording can also stop manually started recordings or recordings started by other actions. - There're now new export options. It is possible to export tracks with a reduced data set as "Routes". These "route" export options don't keep all coordinates of a track (approx. 1 coordinate per second), instead only the minimum amount of coordinates are kept, which are necessary to reproduce the path (for example when traveling a straight section of a street, only 1 coordinate at the beginning and one at the and of this section will be kept, within curves some more coordinates are kept). The export of Routes can be done as CSV and as GPX file. - There's a new option for Web-Hook which can repeat sending data to the Web-Hook server whenever this has failed. Please note, the App only tries for about 5 days to send the data and only for temporary errors (for example if there's no internet connection, or the server is down/unreachable). - There are some new commands available for controlling the App via „pado“ URL (pado://cmd). The following commands (cmd) are available: startRecording, stopRecording, startLongTermRecording, stopLongTermRecording, startStepCounter, stopStepCounter, stepCounter, Tracks, Actions, timeTracking, monitoredRegions, allRegions - There's a new red color scheme available (in light and dark). - Bugfix: On the iPad the option "Vibrate" for the actions is no longer available (because the iPad can't vibrate) - Bugfix: The calendar view is now evaluating the first day of the week option from the system settings and sorts the weekdays accordingly. - Bugfix: When selecting music within the "actions" the OK/Cancel buttons where not always visible. - Bugfix: When selecting a region within the actions, the currently selected region will be now automatically shown on the map and the list of regions.

- Fixes an issue when transmitting recorded tracks from the Apple Watch to the iPhone again (they were transmitted already before) could override changes made on the iPhone for these tracks. - When running on a Mac the App could crash because the Apple-provided way to check for the availability of "live activities" doesn't work on a Mac. This version includes a check for a Mac (Apple silicon), so when running on a Mac it doesn't check if Live Activities are available anymore. - Solves a few minor issues

In iOS 16.1 the App supports "Live Activities" on the iPhone. When a track recording is started within the App and you leave the App, you can now find information about the ongoing recording (current speed, distance, compass, etc) in the dynamic island (iPhone 14 Pro) and on the lockscreen (all iPhones).

iOS 16 has an issue when displaying custom maps (raster tiles). These maps are drawn above the track overlay layer instead of below this layer (as this was the case in previous iOS releases), therefore the tracks were no longer visible when using the OpenTopoMap or other custom maps (added via Tile server). This update solves the issue.