Global Position

his is a major reliability and battery release. Almost every screen has been reworked. BATTERY - Fixed duplicate location tracking. The app was running three overlapping GPS sessions and making redundant address lookups on every position update. - Location and motion sensors now stop when you leave the app, and the compass sensor runs only while the compass is on screen. - The GPS Accuracy setting now genuinely changes how the app tracks you. Previously it only changed the colour of an indicator — Low and Medium cost exactly as much power as High. They now save real battery. ACCURACY - Fixed coordinates losing their hemisphere near the equator and the prime meridian. In degrees/minutes formats, a position at 0.5°S was shown as 0.5°N. - Fixed a crash when opening the Info tab between 80°N and 84°N. - Speed no longer displays negative values when GPS has no usable reading. - UTM, MGRS and UPS now appear only where each grid system is actually defined, instead of showing meaningless polar coordinates everywhere. - MGRS grid references now match NGA and GEOTRANS output exactly. - Position, speed and altitude show "—" while waiting for a fix, rather than zeros that looked like a real location off the coast of Africa. - The GPS accuracy indicator now reflects your actual fix quality instead of whichever setting you had selected. COMPASS - The needle no longer swings almost a full turn backwards each time you face north. G-FORCE - The G-force meter now measures motion only, with gravity excluded. It reads 0.00 G at rest instead of 1.00 G, and the scale suits real driving. MAP - Rebuilt on Apple's current map engine for smoother panning and zooming. - The tracking button now correctly reflects whether the map is following you. - Sharing your location no longer opens a blank sheet before your first fix. INTERNATIONAL - Numbers now use your region's decimal separator (36,0 km/h). - Sunrise and sunset follow your device's 12- or 24-hour setting. - Day length is now localised. ALSO IN THIS RELEASE - A clear explanation and a shortcut to Settings if location access is off. - Maximum altitude now records correctly below sea level. - The solar progress bar advances while you are standing still. - Smoother altitude graph that uses less power. - VoiceOver improvements throughout. - The flashlight no longer reports as on when the device has no torch. PLEASE NOTE Your saved maximum G-force is reset by this update, because the meter now measures a different — and correct — quantity. Maximum speed and altitude records are unaffected.