2023.9
2023-08-10
- Improved retry logic for resolving what resort you're at when the initial lookup fails because you're offline.
- Fixed resort logos sometimes not showing on the resort listing screen.
- Fixed the "enable smart reminders?" prompt showing too much.
- Fixed a crash on the Mac version.
2023.8
2023-06-02
- Fix for multiple Live Activities showing at once.
- Fix for an iOS 15 crash.
What's new in 2023.7:
New Watch App (!!)
- New (but familiar) UI focusing on bigger text and glanceability, making it easy to read the main stats (vertical, distance, speed, heart rate, time).
- Spin the Digital Crown to focus in on any one of those stats. For example see your current elevation + tallest run when checking vertical, your heart rate zone + max HR when checking heart rate, or a full mini-timeline breakdown of lifts vs runs when checking time.
- The nearby friends screen now shows the direction / distance to all friends in a single list, so you can just scroll vs having to tap on a friend to get those details.
- Much stronger haptics, more like the Timer app, when auto-resume kicks in.
- Improved reliability of starting a workout with the Action button.
New, faster, start recording screen for both iPhone and Watch.
- Don't worry about picking what resort you're at anymore. Slopes will figure all that in the background for you now (assuming you have cell reception).
- Instead, just pick your activity type. You can pick from ski, snowboard, monoski, splitboard, sitski, telemark, and more.
- It's also now more obvious how to set it as a backcountry activity where you want credit for the uphill touring / skinning.
- As part of the new auto-resort tagging, multi-resort support is here (!!). This is big for European users; for example hopping from Méribel to Courchevel will tag the activity as "Les 3 Vallées" instead of just Méribel.
Unified recording experience; Slopes on iPhone can now control the Watch app.
- If you try to start recording via phone while you have the Watch app installed it'll just automatically start it there for you.
- You can pause / resume / finish recordings on your Watch via iPhone now, too.
- While recording on Watch, you can have a Live Activity running on your iPhone. This will show automatically if you start Slopes via your phone, but if you start via Watch directly you'll need to open the iOS app once to get it going (apps must be in the foreground to start a live activity).
- Improvements to Smart Reminders when you have both an iPhone and Apple Watch. It isn't as perfect as I'd like it yet, but it should cut down on a lot of the useless "you're near a lift" reminders when you're already recording. I hope.
Other improvements:
- Skinning / touring in the backcountry will now add the uphill segments to Apple Health including speed and elevation gain.
- Interactive maps for resorts will no longer get stuck on satellite map mode.
- I got inspired by Apollo's new retro iOS app alt icon; I just had to envision Slopes for iPhoneOS 2.0 with a new alt icon.
With this update, Slopes now requires iOS 15 / watchOS 8. This doesn't drop support for any devices as iOS 15 supports all the same hardware iOS 14 did.
2023.7
2023-05-31
New Watch App (!!)
- New (but familiar) UI focusing on bigger text and glanceability, making it easy to read the main stats (vertical, distance, speed, heart rate, time).
- Spin the Digital Crown to focus in on any one of those stats. For example see your current elevation + tallest run when checking vertical, your heart rate zone + max HR when checking heart rate, or a full mini-timeline breakdown of lifts vs runs when checking time.
- The nearby friends screen now shows the direction / distance to all friends in a single list, so you can just scroll vs having to tap on a friend to get those details.
- Much stronger haptics, more like the Timer app, when auto-resume kicks in.
- Improved reliability of starting a workout with the Action button.
New, faster, start recording screen for both iPhone and Watch.
- Don't worry about picking what resort you're at anymore. Slopes will figure all that in the background for you now (assuming you have cell reception).
- Instead, just pick your activity type. You can pick from ski, snowboard, monoski, splitboard, sitski, telemark, and more.
- It's also now more obvious how to set it as a backcountry activity where you want credit for the uphill touring / skinning.
- As part of the new auto-resort tagging, multi-resort support is here (!!). This is big for European users; for example hopping from Méribel to Courchevel will tag the activity as "Les 3 Vallées" instead of just Méribel.
Unified recording experience; Slopes on iPhone can now control the Watch app.
- If you try to start recording via phone while you have the Watch app installed it'll just automatically start it there for you.
- You can pause / resume / finish recordings on your Watch via iPhone now, too.
- While recording on Watch, you can have a Live Activity running on your iPhone. This will show automatically if you start Slopes via your phone, but if you start via Watch directly you'll need to open the iOS app once to get it going (apps must be in the foreground to start a live activity).
- Improvements to Smart Reminders when you have both an iPhone and Apple Watch. It isn't as perfect as I'd like it yet, but it should cut down on a lot of the useless "you're near a lift" reminders when you're already recording. I hope.
Other improvements:
- Skinning / touring in the backcountry will now add the uphill segments to Apple Health including speed and elevation gain.
- Interactive maps for resorts will no longer get stuck on satellite map mode.
- I got inspired by Apollo's new retro iOS app alt icon; I just had to envision Slopes for iPhoneOS 2.0 with a new alt icon.
With this update, Slopes now requires iOS 15 / watchOS 8. This doesn't drop support for any devices as iOS 15 supports all the same hardware iOS 14 did.
2023.6
2023-03-04
- You can now remove your profile picture and revert back to just your initials.
- Fixed "Mordor maps" - times when the 3d map would look all jagged and wrong.
- Fixed the "More" button in the share card generator not working sometimes.
2023.5
2023-02-07
- Fix the Watch complication not always updating when you get 1k more vertical while recording.
- Possible fix for a crash on Watch because Slopes was using too much CPU.
2023.4
2023-02-05
- Fixed a case where a snow forecast bar might be transparent when it actually has a value.
- Fixed "Nearby Friends" list on iPhone sometimes being empty when recording via Watch.
- Fixed the "Find Me" URL not working from iPhone when recording via Watch.
- Fix for iPad crash when sending Slopes to the background.
2023.3
2023-02-01
- OpenSnow integration (!!). Resort snowfall forecasts in Slopes are now powered by OpenSnow, and include temperature estimates too.
- If you want more details beyond the 5-day snowfall estimate, you can tap to get directly into OpenSnow (either on the web or the app if you have it installed).
Can I just nerd out for a second? OpenSnow is my go-to for forecasts, I'm super excited to bring their data to all of you. Make sure you head over to them and sign up to check out their full data (this is not a sponsored post lol).
2023.2
2023-01-26
- Improved the contrast of your day's path on the recording screen with the newer premium maps.
- Some localization updates from the community (thanks!)
- Tweaked manual speed calculations when importing GPX files that don't contain speed info. Still not 100% happy, but should get ~50% less "spikes" of weird speeds.
- Fixed incorrect labels for most daily vertical / distance on the season share card for "bests".
- Fixed a case where your phone might say you're in the backcountry, but you're recording on your Watch at a resort.
- Fixed an issue with the anonymous feedback privacy option switch. If you turned that on in the last month, please turn it on again. Very sorry about that.
- Fixed a crash on the modular complication for watchOS.
2023.1
2023-01-07
Starting off the new year with a big feature:
- Slopes's interactive trail maps are now available even when you aren't recording, via the resort details screen for each resort.
- Interactive trail maps have increased contrast of trail information (except in the logbook where your recording is front-and-center) to help with outdoor reading.
I have some big plans for maps on the resort tab, so this is just step 1!
2022.21
2022-12-27
- Fixed a case where backcountry days might record as one long run.
- Fixed a case where an unfinished recording on Watch would prevent you from starting a new recording. You'll now resume the old one, letting you end it.
2022.20
2022-12-20
- New app icon for Premium users from Basic Apple Guy.
- Fixed a case where your avatar might show up in two places on the map while recording.
- Fixed exporting GPX files as "Single Track".
- Fixed trail maps + ski patrol info not showing on your phone while recording via your watch.
- Fixed a crash on Apple Watch related to the heart rate graph.
2022.19
2022-12-08
- Maps! Maps! Maps! We've been hard at work over the summer building our enhanced digital trail maps for international resorts and today we're launching them for the top resorts in the European Alps and Japan. We've also added another 70 resorts in North America, bringing our world-wide total to over 200.
2022.18
2022-12-01
- Fixed a case where the "weak GPS" warning would appear incorrectly on your phone while recording with your Watch.
- Fixed a case where Watch imports wouldn't process.
2022.17
2022-11-26
- Apple Watch Ultra Action button support for starting your workout. Slopes will automatically figure out what resort you're at when starting (or if you're in the backcountry).
- Auto water lock on Watch. Enable this setting to have your Watch enable water-lock automatically after you start recording. Handy for pesky gear that likes to mess with your Watch during the day.
- Improvements to the Siri workout start on Watch.
- Fixed another crash related to leaving Slopes recording while taking a long break.
2022.16
2022-11-23
- Fixed crash that could occur while leaving Slopes recording when you take a break.
- Fixed a crash when trying to view Smart Reminders settings from the notifications screen.
2022.15
2022-11-10
- Garmin Watch auto-imports. If you're a Garmin Watch wearer, you can now connect Slopes to Garmin Connect and we'll automatically import your ski and snowboard activities as soon as they upload.
- This gets you the best of both worlds: you can keep using your Garmin device to record, and at the end of the day you get the awesome interactive replays, 3D maps, friend leaderboards, and more!
- When you make the connection between Garmin and Slopes, we'll automatically import the last 5 years of ski data (ignoring any duplicates of data already in Slopes).
- Activities imported via Garmin Connect will include heart rate data, too.
- Head to Account -> Online Integrations to get started.
2022.14
2022-11-04
- Restored support for watchOS 7.1.
- Localized the Slopes Swag screen.
- Fixed some other typos / localization issues.
- Fixed a bug where number of runs always showed as "-" in Live Activity.
- Fixed a case where if Slopes crashed and you re-opened it, it wouldn't automatically resume recording like it should.
- Fixed a case where with Find-Me enabled Slopes may ask every time you start recording if you want to enable notifications.
2022.13
2022-10-24
- Live Activity support: see how your day is going without unlocking your phone! From your Lock Screen you can see two (customizable) stats about your day, who else is riding at the resort, and the timeline of your day.
- Dynamic Island support. On iPhone 14 Pro models Slopes will live up in the Dynamic Island, making it easy to check stats / nearby friends at a glance and pause / resume.
- Fixed a case where forgetting to pause for a lunch break could cause incorrect lift/run detection after your break.
Note: this release temporarily removes watchOS 7 support, requiring watchOS 8. watchOS 7 support will be restored as soon as a bug is fixed.
2022.12
2022-09-24
- Noted in the UI that the new watchOS complications require watchOS 9 or newer.
- Fixed an issue transferring debug logs from Watch to iPhone.
- Fixed a crash during recording.
- Fixed a version migration blocking the UI for longer than expected.
2022.11
2022-09-12
- New widgets for your Lock Screen *and* Complications for your Watch: keep tabs on local resort conditions and snow forecasts.
- New widget for your Home Screen: Winter Memories. Photos you took while skiing will rotate daily on your Home Screen. See snow year-round!
- Tweaked the heart rate zone calculation to closer match Apple's new zone metrics (they use Heart Rate Recovery, vs relying on just max HR).
- Slopes can better detect if you might have driven away while leaving Slopes recording, and will direct you to the timeline editor if it thinks you did.
- Made the close button more obvious on the run comparison screen.
- The "New Merch Unlocked" message will no longer be triggered because of activities being downloaded from another device.
- Fixed the 2D/3D map preview not updating after you made an edit via the timeline editor.
- Fixed the How'd You Stack Up / Leaderboards not updating automatically after making an edit via the timeline editor.
- Fixed a case where the How'd You Stack Up section would always show a "syncing to server" message if you had multiple recordings in the same day.
- Fixed an issue with changing your password via the app.
- You can now manually set the default equipment (ski vs snowboard) on iPhone just like you could Watch. This'll sync over to Watch, and keep itself up to date if you change equipment on an activity after completing your day. This should fix some of the edge cases with the iPhone defaulting to the wrong equipment when you start recording.
- Slopes should now be a lot faster to recover from a crash on Watch, which should help an occasional crash-on-launch if it was trying to recover.
2022.10
2022-05-28
- Winter is here in the Southern Hemisphere, and we've been busy prepping. We've added digital trail maps for all resorts in Australia and New Zealand including Perisher, Craigieburn Valley, and more.
- Fixed an issue with Smart Reminders where it might not prioritize the right lifts as ones worth reminding to record at (since we are limited to ~10 lifts by the system, we have to pick the most popular lifts people start at).
- There's been a troublesome Watch bug causing a crash when you pause sometimes that I've been trying to track down all season. This update might fix it.
- Some subtle UI animation tweaks to things that kept me up at night.
2022.9
2022-04-16
- Fixed leaderboard layout when you have only a few friends and you're using dynamic type.
- Fixed a case where Slopes might try to access your location in the background incorrectly when doing a background fetch for updated resort data.
2022.8
2022-03-12
No more "text me when you get here!"
- When you're recording with Find Me turned on, can now get a notification when a friend also starts recording with Find Me on at the same resort.
- Similarly, if you enable that, you'll also get a notification when you start recording if friends are already recording there.
- Your device will now more quickly update to show new friends that are recording with Find Me enabled.
- When you're recording via Watch, but checking things out on your phone, if the phone can't get updated data from online (poor cell reception) it'll now pull friend location data from the Watch in the mean time as that has a good chance of being pretty up-to-date.
- Fixed a case where starting recording via Smart Reminders could cause Slopes to ignore your preferred ski vs snowboard preference.
- Fixed a case where if Slopes crashed and you tried to start or resume via a Smart Reminder that the UI might get stuck in a weird state.
2022.7
2022-02-17
- Slopes on iOS should now more reliably keep recording in the background if you do something like take a video or go live on IG.
- Fixed a case where editing lifts / runs would cause the timeline screen to highlight the wrong run on the map as you scrolled.
- Fixed a case where you'd mark a recording as in the backcountry / off-piste but it would get swapped to "Unlisted resort."
- Fixed the issue where the Watch app would show "KP/H" while iOS would correctly show "KM/H."
- Also fixed the share cards incorrectly showing "KP/H" when in metric.
We've also added enhanced trail maps for another 7 resorts. Including: Arapahoe Basin, Solitude, Heavenly, Seven Springs. We should be up to 50 total resorts sometime next week!
2022.6
2022-02-03
- Stopped the logbook screen from trying to refresh when you're recording. In rare cases this could cause Slopes to get killed in the background for trying to do too much.
- Fixed a case where your unit type (imperial / metric) wasn't syncing to Apple Watch after changing it on iPhone. You can also toggle the units type on the Watch settings screen now.
- Fixed a crash on Watch that could happen when you hit the pause button. Rare race condition in trying to update the heart rate graph twice at the same time.
- Fixed a case where new users weren't being prompted on their iPhone to pick if they skied or snowboarded after recording, and it was just defaulting to skiing. (BTW you can hit the edit button to change your activity type).
- Fixed the season summary showing your number of recordings, not the number of days, at your most-visited resort.
- I've also been making changes in the last 3 updates to fix a crash on Watch that could happen if you stop for lunch (for 40min+) without pausing. Don't want to promise anything, but I think I got this one. Please let us know if it seems fixed for you after installing this update (make sure Slopes on Apple Watch is up to date).