My Finds: Metal Detecting

GPS track quality Stray GPS readings — where the phone briefly reports a position far from where you actually were — are now filtered out as they happen, so your recorded track stays true to your walk. Shared and exported GPX tracks are cleaner: a stray reading or a signal gap no longer draws a long straight line across the map. Your track no longer breaks up at detecting pace. Quiet spells while you sweep and dig stay one continuous path; the line only breaks where you genuinely moved during a gap. Find depth Tap a depth preset when logging a find to record how deep it was. The depth shows on the find’s detail page, can be changed any time, and follows your measurement setting (inches or centimetres). The free-text depth note is still there for anything that doesn’t fit a preset. Insights gains a Depth Distribution chart and a Deepest Find record card. Coin metal When you log a coin, My Finds can suggest its likely metal — silver, gold or copper alloy — worked out from the denomination and year. Tap the suggestion to fill it in; nothing is set unless you choose it. Dated coins no longer ask for a metal on the Improve Records list, except where it genuinely can’t be told apart — like a wartime threepence, which came in both silver and brass. Date Range You can now record the period a find dates to — like 1250–1400 for a medieval buckle type — separately from the Year field, which stays reserved for dates actually stamped on the object. The new fields appear when logging a find and on its detail page, for every category, with a CE/BCE switch and open-ended ranges (“From 1066”). A date range counts as a recorded date on the Improve Records list. Backups Backups now include your hand-drawn field boundaries and your agreement documents (photos and PDFs of written permissions), plus each find’s favourite star, structured depth and date range — so restoring onto a new phone brings everything back complete. GoTerrain imports All of GoTerrain’s find icons are now recognised, so imported finds land in a sensible category instead of Other / Unidentified. The gold, silver and copper icons also fill in a find’s metal type when GoTerrain didn’t record one. New find categories Two new top-level categories join the UK set: Tools / Implements (agricultural and trade tools, surveying gear, personal implements) and Token / Medal (trade tokens, jettons, commemorative and award medals). Both offer type suggestions and are mapped for PAS export; anything you’ve already recorded keeps its name and stays where it is. Two new metal types in the picker: White Metal and Nickel Silver. Find notes A find’s notes can now be added or changed on the find detail screen — previously they could only be entered when the find was first logged. Maps A session’s map now marks where the session ended, including the true closing point when a session ended on the drive away. UK rights of way are drawn in their proper colours again, matching the map legend. The Map tab opens centred on your current location instead of zoomed out to fit every find. Stability Fixed a class of rare crashes where a find’s list row could be redrawn just after the find was deleted. Fixed a shared session report where the first find could be missing from the PDF when the session covered a tall, narrow area.