
Viewpoint: Photography Planner
Every photo tool in one app
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What's New in Viewpoint
1.12.0
September 29, 2026
The real sky, in the AR scout and on the map. • The real Milky Way in AR Scout. Turn on Milky Way and the scout lays a real photograph of the whole sky over your camera — the bright core, the dark dust lanes — exactly where it sits for your place and time. It stays see-through, follows you as you turn and roll the phone, and looks the same above and below the horizon, so you can trace the whole band. In daylight it becomes a dark strip of night sky, so you can plan tonight's shot in the afternoon. • The sun and moon as you'll see them. The sun's path takes the colour of the light — deep blue before dawn, violet in the blue hour, red at sunrise, orange in the golden hour, yellow by day. The moon is a real photograph, lit at tonight's phase and turned the way it will appear. Both stay visible below the horizon, and a dashed line marks the horizon even offline. • Find the core. A target labelled "Milky Way core", with its height, shows exactly where to aim. • Conditions that look like the weather. Cloud, fog, golden light, snow and storm light now appear on the map as real textures instead of flat colour. Clouds cover as much of the map as the forecast says, fog settles in the valleys, golden light warms the land, and storm light shows lightning only where a thunderstorm is forecast. The map always shows through. • Easier to read. The legend shows each condition's actual look, the map switches to a dark style while a condition is on so it stands out, and changing the hour crossfades instead of jumping. • A more reliable north in AR Scout. The scout now waits for a true-north heading before drawing, falls back to a corrected compass indoors, and asks iOS to calibrate the compass when it needs to — so the sun, moon and Milky Way land where they really are.
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