• Improved links to Challenge Progress, Chat, and the activity recorder. • Community links can open Chat directly. • Challenge cover images stay consistent when members add photos.

• Listen to creator-recorded audio in Community articles, with improved playback and follow-along transcripts when provided. • Join eligible Communities with a one-time payment and see pricing before joining. • Improved paid-Community access checks prevent unpaid join requests from granting access. • Vouch that another member is a real person and see community-vouched counts on profiles. • Completed Challenges stay in history instead of appearing as active. • Includes improved Community browsing, Challenge progress, chat mentions, activity recording, localization, maps, and reliability.

• Reorder Challenges and Communities in My Spark and Studio. • Browse Community content in new image-first grid and list layouts. • See clearer, faster progress for long Challenges. • Edit Challenge chat messages more cleanly and use a larger send button. • Receive targeted Challenge mention notifications that open the right chat. • Includes reliability, localization, map, article-link, check-in, and activity recording improvements.

• Fixes check-in errors after recording a run, walk, or hike. • Keeps saved activity sessions tied to the correct account and prevents abandoned recordings from accumulating. • Streamlines activity recording from challenges. • Adds Spark Rewards, where eligible members can choose a challenge or community participation path. • Includes reliability improvements for GPS, saved activities, and check-in recovery.

Fixes a crash when starting or resuming a run, walk, or hike. Improves recovery of saved activities and handling of location permissions.

Challenge progress is easier to follow. • Record a run, walk, or hike and review your route, distance, time, and pace before saving a check-in. • See the top three participants right below the Challenge map, with the option to expand the full leaderboard. • Keep long checklists manageable with a short preview, expandable remaining items, and a separate Completed section. • Includes the latest Challenge check-in, map, and Community article-link improvements.

Explore Spark more easily: • Challenge maps now group check-ins at the same place, so you can open each visible member's entry and photos. • Discover includes compact guides to building a personal brand and exploring paid communities, with an illustrative earnings calculator. • Related articles across communities open in the iOS reader when available. • Challenge check-ins have clearer retry and edit options when an upload needs attention. • The new Discover guides are available in English, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

More ways to discover, participate, and share: • Explore improved interactive challenge maps with better place search, planned destinations, long-press check-ins, member markers, and check-in photos. • Update your profile photo on iOS and view communities and challenges a person joined, plus their published articles. • Leave ratings and written reviews for communities and challenges after participating. • Enable community voting for challenges with or without prizes. • Select up to four photos for a challenge check-in with a smoother photo picker. • Reorder upcoming challenge items to fit your own schedule. • Challenge calendars now reflect only your own check-ins. • Faster background saves, clearer upload progress, improved playback, and text overlays for videos. • General reliability improvements.

More ways to discover, participate, and share: • Explore interactive challenge maps, search for places, and view member check-ins and photos. • Leave ratings and written reviews for communities and challenges after participating. • Enable community voting for challenges with or without prizes. • Select up to four photos for a challenge check-in with a smoother photo picker. • Reorder upcoming challenge items to fit your own schedule. • Challenge calendars now reflect only your own check-ins. • Faster background saves, clearer upload progress, improved playback, and text overlays for videos. • General reliability improvements.

Community and Challenge improvements: • Open community links directly in Spark. • Create articles with AI assistance and add, upload, or record image and video media. • Improved playback for newly uploaded community videos. • Fixed Challenge cover uploads and replacements. • Fixed scheduled daily check-ins so completed and future days display correctly. • General reliability improvements.

Create and share with more control in Spark. • Record videos with a countdown, pause/resume, retake-last-clip, drafts, compression, custom covers, and improved playback controls. • Run richer Challenges with reliable media updates, approval requests, related Communities, giveaways, and community voting. • Read Community articles with working links, bold and italic text, inline video, swipe navigation, and clear next steps. • Improved profiles, Community sharing, landscape-image viewing, replies, reactions, notifications, and account deletion. • Fixed launch stability, future-date progress rules, membership status, and media-saving issues.

Challenge participation is now more reliable. Giveaway challenges show clear prize badges, start dates are enforced, approval-required requests stay pending until accepted, and checklist, schedule, access, and related Community edits save correctly. Favorites sync more reliably across devices, related Communities appear on Challenge pages, and signed-out launch stability is improved.

This update improves challenge participation, progress tracking, content sharing, and media presentation. It also includes refined community and challenge covers, richer chat interactions, and general reliability improvements.

Spark 1.0.1 makes Challenges more flexible and easier to follow: • Create challenges with AI-assisted setup, daily habits, checklists, numeric goals, or open submissions. • Track progress visually and complete checklist items in any order. • Add photo proof, notes, and dates to challenge progress. • Record and replay chat videos up to 25 minutes. • Improved Challenge terminology and translations across supported languages. • Additional reliability and interface improvements