FLANEUR – Street Photography

This one is mostly about light and trips. The sun compass can do a lot more now. Pick a day and a time, and fine lines across the map show which direction the sun is shining from. You can see in advance when the light falls into an alley, grazes a facade or runs along a canal. A time strip colours the day by its light, from night through blue hour and golden hour to full day, and the slider takes you through the hours. Two rays show where the sun rises and sets on that day. In compass mode the map turns with the direction you are facing, so on the spot you can see where the light will come from. Times are given in the local time of the place on the map, and everything is calculated on your iPhone. If you already bought the sun compass, all of this is yours without buying anything again. Sunrise and sunset on the map stay free for everyone. Golden hour in the widget and the reminder now follows the height of the sun instead of a fixed hour. Depending on place and season, the times shift because of that. Trips can be shared now. The share icon on the trip page turns your plan into a file, with spots and notes, places and areas, shot list, gear, checklist and dates. Whoever gets it opens it via AirDrop, from the Files app or with the plus in the Trips list, and then has the trip as a planned trip of their own. Sharing and importing cost nothing. Places and areas are added in one sheet. Search at the top or simply type a name. Areas now sit in the shot list and can be ticked off like spots. Sunrise and sunset on the trip page are shown in the trip's local time. Imported spots only count towards goals and badges once you have ticked them off. Whatever you have reached stays in Goals, even if a number goes down again later. Sessions now have an end. When you add a walk, the end comes from the walk just like the start, and you can adjust it. Cameras, lenses and films get a brand, and your gear is sorted by it. For gear you already have, FLANEUR suggests the brand from the name and only saves it once you agree. If you assign lenses to a camera, logging a session offers just the ones that fit. All the others are one tap away. Walks now keep recording reliably after a break at a café or restaurant, even with your iPhone in your pocket. Until now the rest of such a walk could end up as a straight line. Walks already recorded that way stay as they are. For some of you, syncing with iCloud got stuck as soon as a trip had an end date or a session had a short voice note. That has been fixed since early October, even on iPhones that have not been updated yet. FLANEUR is ready for iPhone Duo. On the outer display everything stays one-handed, with the menu and tools along the edge. Plus some finer work. Titles in sheets no longer get cut off on small displays, the hint when you add an area can be read in full again, and the layer chips on the map no longer break at large text sizes. A trip's end date is now properly labelled “End”. Shot ideas are called shot ideas everywhere. VoiceOver names the spot when you tick it off in a trip. Rarely, at most twice a year and never right after a walk, FLANEUR asks for a rating through Apple's own window. If the app helps you, we would be glad of it. Good light out there, flaneurs.