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PLATES AND FACES: PRIVACY THAT HOLDS • Plates and faces you cover stay covered everywhere: grid, viewer, sharing, single and batch export, saved versions • On a RAW+JPG pair you only cover once: it applies to both files • The box tightens onto the plate instead of spreading around it, so the rest of the photo stays sharp • Non-Italian plates are now recognised too: United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine CROPPING AND STRAIGHTENING • The crop appears straight away, without having to switch photo • A saved crop can be removed at any time • The Straighten slider rotates the image as you move it, and Auto Level no longer cancels the correction you had already made • Switching photo with Crop open no longer applies your changes to the wrong shot TRUER COLOUR AND RENDERING • Curves keep the shape you draw: a straight line stays straight • The histogram and the white balance eyedropper read the right values • Highlights no longer go flat when you raise exposure or apply a film simulation • Sharpening, noise reduction and grain now show on screen what you will find in the exported file EXPORT • Exported photos always include every applied adjustment • Saving to external drives and iCloud Drive is more reliable • JPEGs are no longer compressed twice: cleaner files at the same quality setting • IPTC data stays complete even in high-resolution exports • Batch export produces exactly the same file as single export METADATA AND CATALOGUE • Setting a star no longer touches the capture date • On a RAW+JPG pair stars go up and down on both files • IPTC fields stay identical on every save, even after many edits THUMBNAILS SHOW YOUR WORK • Scroll the filmstrip and instantly tell which photos you've already developed and which are still to do, without opening them one by one • If you've cropped, picked a film or fixed the light, you see it right in the thumbnail: comparing similar shots becomes immediate • Use the arrow keys to move between sliders and adjust them without lifting your hands • Every control now responds to touch, not just the Apple Pencil STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE • Changing the sort order while photos are still loading no longer loses any of them • When the device gets warm the app slows loading down and tells you, instead of stopping silently • If the external storage disconnects, reconnecting it lets the app pick up where you left off, without losing your selection • The app stays light even after browsing hundreds of photos and uses less memory in long sessions