My Finds: Metal Detecting

A big release. The headlines first, then the rest. MARK A SIGNAL TO COME BACK TO. That strong signal on the walk back to the car needn’t be lost. Tap Add Find and choose Mark Signal, or use the one-tap button on the Lock Screen session display, and a question-mark pin waits on your maps until you return. Free and unlimited. ROMAN ROADS. A new overlay draws the scholarly reconstruction of the Roman road network over the modern map, main roads heavier, uncertain courses dashed. Tap a road for its name and route. LiDAR TERRAIN THAT BLENDS IN. The relief keeps its full contrast while the map keeps its colours beneath it, so fields stay green, water stays blue and labels stay readable. FIELD BOUNDARIES WITHOUT THE TRACING. In the Netherlands and parts of England, tap registered parcels on the satellite view to take them as your boundary, or import boundaries from a Google Earth file. Your permission’s fields and gates now show on every map, including the session map after the day is over. MERGE, MOVE AND CORRECT. Merge two records of the same find. Move a find to the right session. Type a grid reference or coordinates to place a pin exactly. Improve Records now offers one-tap corrections for coins that should read Copper, and for “issued for England” on post-1707 coinage. BETTER COINS. Copper joins the metal types. German Empire and Germany join the issuers, with Mark and Pfennig denominations, and the app suggests the ruler once the issuer and year pin a single reign. Venetian coinage, charms and watches have homes too. PHOTOS. Rotate or square-crop any photo. Photos taken during a tracked session now locate themselves on import from the recorded path, and two angles of the same find group together more reliably. Photo times import correctly wherever in the world you took them. MAPS. Previous-session paths are colour-coded by age, so you can see which ground you covered most recently. A session’s own map can show the other sessions that overlap it. A layers button on the map gathers the Historic Map, LiDAR Terrain, Roman Roads and paths switches in one place. UK RECORDING. The PAS card suggests the Finds Liaison Officer for the county the find was made in, with a copyable email. Find Similar opens finds.org.uk with a search built from the find. Detecting Know-How, under Settings, covers what every UK detectorist should know: permission, the law, reporting, beaches and field craft. TRACKING. Your path no longer goes quiet at true detecting pace, and it keeps recording with the phone locked in a pocket. Changing GPS Recording mid-session takes effect immediately. A session ended for travelling now says so. IMPORT. Bring your history in from Tect O Trak, and the app now tells you when a file from another app has been imported before. ALSO. Searching for a year now finds date-ranged finds too, and “1880s” finds the decade. Improve Records now leads with finds that have no category yet. Custom Queries are free until your 20th find, like the research overlays. Restore Purchase and Subscribe say what happened when the App Store can’t be reached. Insights charts drill with VoiceOver. A refreshed icon, a sturdier start-up, and fixes for the Finds search bar, photo rotation, map search on iOS 27 and the blank share sheet.