My Finds: Metal Detecting

Category and Subcategory are now two separate rows, each with its own picker, and a tap in either applies straight away — there’s no Save to remember. Subcategories used to be reachable only by going through “Change Category”, so most people never found them; now they sit alongside Denomination and Ruler as the optional field they are. Two new land types for a session: Cultivated and Failed crop. Worked-to-seedbed ground and a failed crop are their own thing, not quite ploughed and not quite stubble, and they sit next to those in the picker. Thanks to Bob Hughes for the request. Prepared sessions can be edited — tap the pencil on a plan to change any of its details. Saving updates the plan in place, so it keeps its spot in the queue. Counts throughout the app now read correctly whether there’s one of something or several — no more “1 finds”. Fixed: exported GPX files now match the GPX 1.1 schema exactly. Google Earth always accepted them; stricter mapping software may not have. The Denomination and Ruler pickers now show which region’s list you’re looking at, with its flag, and explain that it follows the session — not the region in Settings. If a session picked up the wrong country, you can set it right on the session’s Region row. Fixed: a stray GPS reading arriving out of order at the end of a session could be recorded as the final point of your track, putting a short backwards step into exported files. Delete All Data and the Replace option when restoring a backup now refuse while a session is recording, and say why. Adding a backup to your existing data is unaffected. New: import your finds from Tect O Trak — including photos. Tect O Trak has gone from the App Store, leaving its users no way to move on with their history; My Finds now reads the app’s CSV export and Images folder (zip the folder and pick the zip under Settings → Backup & Restore → Import from Another App). Grid references become map locations, finds are grouped into one session per day, and every photo comes across with its find. Fixed: typing a grid reference to place a find by hand put the pin up to a mile north or south of the spot the reference names. Grid references you type now land within a metre or two. (Locations recorded from GPS were never affected — this only touched manually-typed references.) Fixed: after Delete All Data, going back to the Sessions tab could quit the app if a session’s detail screen had been open before the delete.