Helios - Sun & Moon Tracker

Helios 6 is the biggest update yet: a new read on the light itself, a rebuilt sky, upgraded reminders and Shortcuts support. LIGHT CONDITIONS The new Outlook section tells you what the light is doing right now — golden light, blue hour, harsh overhead sun, fog, moonlight — how long it holds, and what it's good for. Every moment of the day is scored out of 100 and drawn as a curve, so you can see the good windows coming and the bad ones passing. It reads the real sky, not just clear-sky maths: cloud cover, rain and haze come from Apple Weather. And the advice is written for what you're here for — photography, hiking and astronomy each get their own. Change it any time in Settings. A NEW SKY The sky view has been rebuilt. Real clouds from the forecast drift overhead, the sun carries its own glow and bloom, and the sun's and moon's paths are traced across the sky with markers on the horizon showing exactly where they will rise and set. In HDR, on displays that support it. THE MAP, NOW IN THREE DIMENSIONS The Sky Projection map now shows the sun's or Moon's whole day up as a dome over the ground, with the golden and blue hour bearings tinted where they fall and the sun glowing along its track. Switch between the standard map and satellite imagery, and on the shadow map, flip between shadow and sunlight. SWIPE BETWEEN VIEWS Every place now has three backdrops you swipe between — the Atmosphere sky, the Sky Projection map and the Shadow map — with a picker that previews each one live. Helios remembers which you prefer. A NEW WAY THROUGH TIME A new timeline runs beneath every place. Drag it to move through the day and watch the sky, the map and the shadows follow. Its controls lift out of the way as you scrub and read the moment back to you, with a calendar for any date, a jump to tomorrow morning, and a way straight back to now. ECLIPSES Your Outlook now shows the next solar and lunar eclipse at your place — what kind it is, when it happens, and how much of the sun or moon is covered where you are. Behind them sits a new lunar engine accurate to the arcsecond, which also sharpens moonrise, moonset and phase times. UPGRADED REMINDERS Set a reminder for any event at any place. Repeat it every day, or fire it once on a date. Pin it to a place, or let it follow you wherever you are. Choose how long before the event you want to hear about it. SHORTCUTS AND SIRI 21 new actions: sun and moon position, event times and bearings, light quality, the next eclipse, shadow length, drawn moon and sky images you can drop into anything, plus saving, opening and searching your places. SPOTLIGHT Your saved places now turn up in Spotlight search, map and all, from anywhere on your device. NEW APPLE WATCH APP A completely new watch app built around four instruments — Light, Sun, Moon and Compass — over a sky coloured for the moment you are looking at. Turn the Digital Crown to move through the day.