Changelog

When a journey clearly mixes two ways of travelling, such as a drive to a car park followed by a long walk, the timeline now shows each part separately instead of one long drive.

The timeline now shows a visit as one card, even when it runs past midnight. A small date marker shows where each day starts, and the header at the top names the day you are looking at: Today, Yesterday or the date.

byway.place now shows the app in your language.

Stops at a station, airport, shopping centre, supermarket or hotel are now named after that place, not a café inside it. A café you've picked before still wins.

Byway is now available in Danish.

Byway is now available in Dutch.

Byway is now available in European Portuguese.

Byway is now available in Japanese.

Byway is now available in Korean.

Byway is now available in Latin American Spanish.

Byway is now available in Norwegian.

Byway is now available in Polish.

Byway is now available in Simplified Chinese.

Byway is now available in Swedish.

Byway is now available in Traditional Chinese.

Byway is now available in Turkish.

The byway.place home page is now in every language the app speaks. Pick yours from the list at the bottom of the page.

Times in the Timeline follow your language's clock: 12-hour in US English, 24-hour in most other languages.

The Stats highlight for your longest journey is no longer called a trip.

Byway is now available in Brazilian Portuguese.

Byway is now available in French.

Byway is now available in German.

Byway is now available in Italian.

Byway is now available in Spanish.

Byway now uses US spelling when your browser is set to US English.

Error messages when signing in or managing your account are clearer.

Clearer wording about encryption and account deletion.

Stats now opens on the current year, ranks Top Places by time, and scrolls the activity calendar to the current month.

Merging a visit you had just merged no longer brings the earlier merge back or leaves a 0-minute copy of the place in your timeline.

Settings no longer shows the date you last synced in American format, and very long durations now show a thousands separator (1,234 hr).

Summary: a look back at each day, week and month — the places that stood out, new places and journeys, beside a map. Mark a place Not Interesting or Always Show, and find those places again in Settings › Summary.

New place data now reaches Byway without reloading the page.

A Foursquare place you pick yourself now keeps its own icon and subtitle, so a hotel you choose shows a bed rather than a suitcase.

Settings shows whether your email address is confirmed, and can send the link again.

A deletion requested by email can now be cancelled from the link in that email, or from Settings if you are signed in.

Recover your account from the link in your recovery email: it opens straight to the Secret Key step, and passkey accounts can set up a new passkey instead of a password.

Settings asks you to confirm it's you before it changes your email address.

Existing signed-in browsers stay signed in when device-bound sessions are introduced.

Public pages no longer use inline scripts, preparing them for stronger browser security policies.

Devices shows when no device is recording and explains how to start again.

Signing in on a new browser now shows how much of your history is left to download, instead of an unchanging spinner.

Signing out of a browser that had nothing left to upload no longer stops your other devices syncing.

Signing in on a new browser is much faster: your history now downloads in parallel instead of one piece at a time. If your visits can't be loaded, Byway says so instead of showing an empty timeline.

Removing a device now checks with the server that this browser still holds the account's current Secret Key before rotating your keys, so a browser that missed a Secret Key change elsewhere can no longer leave your Recovery Kit unable to open your data.

You can now export a Full Backup (JSON) from the web app, and Export starts on it — it's the format Byway can restore from. A backup always covers your whole account, so it takes no date range.

Clearer wording throughout settings, recovery and history tools.

A browser that hasn't been opened since a Secret Key change no longer pushes its outdated recovery details over the current ones.

Places are getting their own map icons — a bed for a hotel, a train for a station, a bag for a shop — instead of one shared icon per category. More arrive as the map data refreshes.

Pick a colour for your places as well as an icon or emoji — the two are now independent, so you can keep the glyph and change the tint.

A place's card, its picker row and the Places table now say what a place is — "Hotel", "Coffee Shop" — instead of the broad category it files under.

Split a visit in two from its edit window — pick a place and set the times for each half.

Adding a passkey now asks for vault access in the same prompt that creates it, and offers an Enable vault access retry instead of silently settling for sign-in only.

Enable vault access now opens your passkey provider's own prompt instead of the browser's phone-or-security-key picker.

You can now add passkeys without replacing your password, and see which passkeys can unlock your vault.

The Stats tiles now agree with their counts, so a single country reads "1 Country" rather than "1 Countries".

Choose Metric or Imperial in Settings — distances across your timeline, trips and stats now follow your choice, starting from your browser's region.

Opening Trips no longer hides trips saved on another device.

Admin: a Feature Flags tab for deciding who can see a pre-release feature, and a Beta Tester role to point those rules at.

Deleting an account from the admin screen now asks you to type the account's email address (pasting is refused) and then confirm once more, so a single misclick can no longer destroy an account.

Byway's privacy policy and support pages are now on the site, at byway.place/privacy/ and byway.place/support/.

Travelled by bus? Pick “By bus” from a journey's mode menu, alongside “By train”.

Short trips are no longer shown as runs — a burst of speed over a minute or two is usually just the GPS catching up, so trips under three minutes stay walks.

A travel leg whose mode you set yourself no longer draws a dotted underline under its caption.

The travel mode picker's "Let Byway decide" is now called "Automatic".

Got somewhere by train? Pick how you travelled from the chevron on any journey in the timeline.

An Underground or train journey between two walks is now shown as a train, not left blank.

An overground train journey now shows as a train rather than as driving.

Byway now checks that a change to your history really came from one of your own devices, and when you remove a device the replacement key is only ever shared with devices you actually own.

The line for travel in progress is no longer dashed and oversized on the timeline map — it now matches the recorded track's weight and glows gently to mark it as happening now.

A journey that mixed walking with a train or Underground ride no longer shows up as a run.

An imported workout route no longer draws as a spray of spikes back to wherever the recording device was — the map shows the route actually taken.

A large timeline update no longer stops the web app absorbing your visits, or leaves a moved visit missing.

Publishing now waits and retries when the encrypted relay is temporarily rate-limited.

App lock now keeps your Secret Key out of this browser's storage as well as your data key, so unlocking without your passkey asks for the Secret Key from your Recovery Kit rather than your password.

The changelog now explains what the Byway CLI is and where to get it.

The My Data visits table marks undated visits instead of printing times the rest of the app declines to state.

A visit whose times were never recorded now sits on the timeline where its data actually is, rather than hours later.

An interrupted store upgrade no longer leaves the app unable to open its local data.

Selecting a journey that turns out to be an offline gap no longer leaves a stray line across the map.

An offline stretch on the timeline now starts where your recorded data actually stopped, so the row covers the whole gap.

Visits detected from sparse data now show without times and stay out of duration stats; gaps in recording show as "Offline".

Byway has a new icon, and it now stays sharp in the toolbar and on your home screen at every size.

The Map tab breaks the track at an offline window, matching the Timeline map.

The Byway icon in the toolbar now loads — it was pointing at a file that never made it into the release.

Byway has a new look — a new app icon and a softer green palette drawn from it.

A place's own subtitle now appears wherever its category used to: in the place picker's rows, and in the Places table.

Selecting a multi-day visit now outlines the whole stay as one box, and an ongoing visit gets its own highlight rather than the selection colour.

A stay you're still on is now outlined all the way around, even when it spans more than one day.

Stats and the timeline open far faster on a long history — the app no longer rebuilds your whole visit history once per card and once per page.

The map draws the whole of a long date range again — its route used to stop partway through.

The map redraws faster while scrolling a long date range.

Travel between places now shows a simple symbol for how you got there — walking, running, cycling, driving or flying — matching the iOS app instead of an emoji.

You can now give a place your own subtitle — the line under its name on the timeline — and custom places get one for the first time.

Byway now has a home page at byway.place, with the app at app.byway.place. The Encryption and Changelog pages share its header, so the three read as one site.

The Secret Key field now appears with the rest of the sign-in form on a new device, instead of sliding in after you've typed your email.

Adding a note to a visit no longer locks its arrival and departure times, or rounds them to the nearest minute.

The timeline is redesigned around day sections: every day gets a pinned header with a summary of what happened on it, cards carry a place icon and a "duration · category" line, travel between places is a pill on a dotted trail, and a stay that runs over midnight now spans those days as one connected object.

Signing in as a different account on a browser that was last used for another one now works instead of failing with an unexplained error.

New passwords now need at least 8 characters as well as enough variety, and the rule is identical on iOS — a password accepted on one Byway app is accepted on the other.

You can now unlock your vault with your Secret Key alone — no password needed — and a new browser is no longer asked for both at once.

Travel on the timeline now shows how you got there — walking, running, cycling, driving or flying.

The place icon picker now offers your recent emoji and a proper emoji picker instead of a text field.

Timeline visits now grow with how long you spent there, so a quick errand and an afternoon with friends no longer look the same. Short visits take up less room, and each visit's duration lines up with its arrival time.

Sync now reclaims unused encrypted uploads and reports when your relay storage limit has been reached.

Finishing an invite link now sets up your encrypted vault and shows your Secret Key to save, the same as signing up yourself.

Settings now shows a single Devices list. Removing or revoking a device signs it out and cuts off its access — there's no separate API Keys list to remember.

You can restore the locations from a full backup: pick the .json file in Settings and they're added to your account and synced to your other devices.

Full JSON backups are available again, and now include your visits rather than only your points.

Suggested Trips are generated from your visits again, including any you have renamed, merged or deleted.

The browser edit pipeline check now exercises a place assignment through the durable op queue, matching how edits actually work.

The timeline now shows a grey "Recorder Offline" bar when your recording device hasn't reported for over 12 hours, instead of silently stretching your current visit.

Travel between visits is rebuilt once after this update, so the map may take a moment to draw routes the first time you open it.

The changelog now has separate Web, iOS and Server tabs, and each section lists new features before fixes.

The public changelog now shows Byway's web, server, and iOS changes in one place.

Sync progress now appears at the top of the timeline instead of covering the map.

Admin cell generation can resume an interrupted publication: failed and cancelled runs get a Resume action, and there is a dialog for entering a publication id directly.

Place tagging now follows the published cell manifest, so unchanged cells are reused from the browser cache instead of being refetched after a data refresh.

The timeline now shows your current travel while you are between visits, including its route on the map.

Byway now asks for confirmation before recomputing visits.

A public page at byway.place/e2ee explaining how your data is encrypted.

The My Data points table now shows newest points first by default.

New passkeys can now unlock your vault, not just sign you in.

Signing in after upgrading your account on another device no longer shows the old unlock screen.

Signing in and unlocking Byway now ask for less. Your Secret Key is remembered on a device you've signed in on, so locking and coming back needs only your password — and when the key is needed, the field is shown up front instead of appearing after a failed attempt.

Signing in with a passkey now unlocks your vault in one step, and never asks for a password you don't have.

Signing out and straight back in no longer leaves syncing broken until you reload.

Settings operations that ask for your account password — revealing your Secret Key, switching to passkey sign-in — no longer reject the correct password.

Flights now draw a curved great-circle path on the map instead of a straight line.

Visits you've tagged with a place now appear on the map at the place's location, with the trail bending in to meet it.

Settings now shows the app version and build at the bottom.

Stats top-countries/cities counts are easier to read — fixed low-contrast text over the ranking bars in light mode.

Deleting a visit now sticks — some visits (from imported history) could reappear right after you deleted them.

Byway is now available in Brazilian Portuguese.

Byway is now available in Danish.

Byway is now available in Dutch.

Byway is now available in European Portuguese.

Byway is now available in French.

Byway is now available in German.

Byway is now available in Italian.

Byway is now available in Japanese.

Byway is now available in Korean.

Byway is now available in Latin American Spanish.

Byway is now available in Norwegian.

Byway is now available in Polish.

Byway is now available in Simplified Chinese.

Byway is now available in Spanish.

Byway is now available in Swedish.

Byway is now available in Traditional Chinese.

Byway is now available in Turkish.

Byway now uses US spelling when your iPhone is set to US English.

Times in the Timeline follow your device's 12- or 24-hour setting.

Trips now open on a Summary: the places that were new to you, where you stayed, and where the rest of your time went.

Stats now opens on the current year, ranks Top Places by time, and scrolls the activity calendar to the current month.

The timeline reads more simply: a stay that runs past midnight is now one card, each day starts at a small date marker beside the times, and the header at the top says Today or Yesterday.

Creating or editing a place from a visit now shows a map — drag it to position the pin.

Full backups are available again: Settings → Export → Full backup (JSON) now includes your visits, places and trips.

The timeline now shows a grey "Recorder Offline" bar when your recording device hasn't reported for over 12 hours, instead of silently stretching your current visit.

Byway now asks for an App Store review once you've been using it for a while, and there's a Review Byway button in Settings under Help & Support.

Ask Siri about your history — “when was I last at the office?”, “what trips did I take last year?”, “how far did I travel in March?” — and search your visits, places and trips from Spotlight. Turn it on in Settings under Siri & Search; it’s off until you do.

Visits detected from sparse data no longer claim times they can't know, and gaps in recording now show as "Offline" rather than as travel.

You can restore a full backup from Settings: merge its locations into this account, or replace your visits, places and trips with the backup's and sync them to your other devices.

Passkeys can now sign you in and unlock your encrypted location history in one step.

Travel on the timeline now shows how you got there — walking, running, cycling, driving or flying.

Place icons can now be an emoji — pick from your recent ones or the emoji keyboard.

A stay that runs past midnight now appears under every day it covered, joined by a continuous line, so a long stay reads as long at a glance.

The map now fills the screen behind the timeline, which you can drag up for more of your history or down for more of the map.

The timeline has been redesigned: days now have their own pinned headings with a summary of the places and distance for that day, visit cards carry the place's category beside the duration, and travel between places reads as a compact pill.

You can now give a place your own subtitle — the line under its name on the timeline — and custom places get one for the first time.

The Enable Tracking and Disable Tracking Shortcuts actions now pause and resume recording instead of removing this device as your tracker, so an automation can stop recording for a while without handing the role to another device.

You can now pause tracking without giving up your recorder device: the Tracking screen's "Tracking Enabled" switch stops recording and keeps every setting. Removing a device as your tracker is now its own confirmed action at the bottom of the screen.

The sidebar has a cleaner look: one list of destinations, and Tracking is now a live status card pinned to the bottom that shows what your tracker is doing at a glance. On a device you've turned tracking off for, the card stays out of the way entirely.

Byway has a new look — a new app icon and a softer green palette drawn from it.

Settings now lists the devices signed in to your account, so you can rename one, remove one you no longer use, or revoke and rotate your keys for one that's lost.

Tap a place — on the Stats screen, or from a visit's card — to see everything about it: time spent, visit count, your average and longest stay, when you first went, and the full list of visits.

The app icon has a new look.

Settings has been reorganised: your account, devices and sync now sit at the top, and a new Help & Support section brings together Support, Debug Settings and About Byway.

There's a new Support screen: email support directly from the app, optionally with your logs attached, and turn on Shake to Send Feedback to report a problem with a screenshot from any screen. Attached logs have your locations removed by default.

The map on a place's screen can now be panned and zoomed, with a Recenter button to snap back to the place.

If your watch recorded an outdoor workout while your phone was somewhere else, Byway can now offer to import the route into your timeline. Turn on "Offer to Import Outdoor Workouts" in Tracking Settings.

Got somewhere by train? Long-press a journey on the timeline to say how you travelled.

An Underground or train journey between two walks is now shown as a train, not left blank.

An overground train journey now shows as a train rather than as driving.

Long-press a visit in the timeline for its own menu: edit it, change its place, open the place's page, merge it with the stay above or below, split a merged stay back apart, or delete it.

A place page can now open the place in Apple Maps, when Apple Maps knows it, and in Google Maps if you have that app installed.

Travelled by bus? Long-press a journey and tell Byway — “By bus” now sits alongside “By train” in the list of ways you got there.

Shaking your device to send feedback now gives you a quick buzz, so you know Byway heard the shake.

Passwords you create in Byway are now saved against byway.place, so your password manager offers them when you sign in on the web too.

You can now create a Byway account right in the app — no invite link needed.

Create an account with just a passkey — Face ID signs you in and unlocks your history, with no password to choose or forget. Pick Passkey or Password on the Create account screen.

Try Byway before signing up: the new Demo Mode button on the welcome screen opens the whole app over a month of invented history — a student's month in Edinburgh, with trips to Glasgow and London. Nothing is recorded, your photos are never read, and the demo is gone the next time you open Byway.

Setting up a new device now turns the location tracker on for you, unless another of your devices is already recording.

Scan the QR code on your printed Recovery Kit to fill in your Secret Key, instead of typing all 52 characters. The code no longer appears on the Recovery Kit screen itself, where there was nothing to scan it with.

The timeline now says what Byway is doing while it waits for your first visit, and the map follows you until there is something to show. 636

Choose Metric or Imperial in Settings — distances across your timeline, trips and stats now follow your choice, starting from your device's region.

Trips can now be shared as a looping GIF. On the share sheet's Video tab, Output offers HD Video, 4K Video or GIF — for the places that autoplay a GIF but not a video.

The share sheet is redesigned: pick a theme, format and quality, choose which places and stats appear, and turn labels, pins and photos on or off.

Poster photos can now be arranged by hand: tap the preview in the share sheet to open it full screen, then drag a photo to move it, or tap it and pinch or twist to resize and rotate. Tap it again to choose a square or original crop. Up to eight photos, raised from four.

The Tracking screen now tells you when Byway's location access is set to "While Using the App" and explains why it needs "Always" — with a shortcut to the right place in Settings.

Split a visit in two from its edit screen — pick a place and set the times for each half.

You can now sign out from the unlock and restore screens, so an account you can't unlock is no longer a dead end you can't leave — even by reinstalling.

Forgotten your password or lost your passkey? You can now recover your account from the app: ask for an email, then use the Secret Key from your Recovery Kit to set a new password or add a new passkey.

Places are getting their own map icons — a bed for a hotel, a train for a station, a bag for a shop — instead of one shared icon per category. More arrive as the map data refreshes.

Pick a colour for your places as well as an icon or emoji — the two are now independent, so you can keep the glyph and change the tint.

A place's card now says what it is — "Hotel", "Coffee Shop", "Rail Station" — instead of the broad category it files under.

Settings → Debug Settings has a new "Refresh place details" action that re-tags every visit against the latest place data, so older visits pick up new names, icons and categories without a full recompute.

Editing a visit now happens on the visit itself: the card grows into an edit mode headed "Editing Visit", the place becomes a button that opens the place picker, and merging asks which place to keep and shows you the result before you commit.

You can now delete your Byway account from Settings — the app tells you exactly what deletion destroys, points you at Export Data first, and asks you to type your email address to confirm.

A new Right Now widget shows where you are and how long you've been there, right on your Home Screen.

A new Timeline widget shows the places you've been today, at two sizes, and tapping a row opens that visit.

The large Timeline widget has a Map switch — long-press and choose Edit Widget to turn the map off and get two more places back.

Two new widgets: Trace, which draws the shape of your day as a map, and Your Day, which puts that map beside the day's distance and places. The large Timeline widget gains a map across the top.

Right Now now works on the Lock Screen, as a rectangular widget or a single line beside the clock.

A This Year widget: your distance, places and countries so far, where the time went, and your top places.

An On This Day widget: what you were doing on this date in previous years, picking the most interesting one rather than always last year.

Tapping a visit on the timeline now opens an expanded detail view over the list, showing when you arrived and left, how long you stayed, your photos from the visit and any notes. Drag it down or tap the close button to go back to the timeline; the per-card edit pencil is gone, with Edit now inside the detail view. The same applies to the timeline inside a trip.

You can now search for an address to place a pin, and VoiceOver users can nudge it without dragging the map.

A new Summary screen looks back at each day, picking out new and unusual places and keeping routine stops quiet. Available to testers first.

Summary now looks back over weeks and months too, with a Go to date picker, and a live map beside the feed on iPad.

In Summary, press and hold a place to mark it Not Interesting or Always Show, with Undo. Settings › Summary lists both.

New place data now reaches Byway without restarting the app. Refresh place details and new visits use the latest version as soon as it is published.

A Foursquare place you pick yourself now keeps its own icon and subtitle, so a hotel you choose shows a bed rather than a suitcase.

Refresh place details now also updates the icons of places you chose yourself before this update, so a hotel you picked shows a bed rather than a suitcase.

Timeline day headers, distances and durations now follow your region's date and number formats.

Merging a visit you had just merged no longer brings the earlier merge back or leaves a 0-minute copy of the place in your timeline.

A visit you merged while you were still there now ends when you leave, instead of staying open.

Error messages when signing in or managing your account are clearer.

Clearer wording about encryption and account deletion.

A device you remove from Settings is now signed out properly: it loses access straight away, and if it comes back online it clears the data it downloaded instead of quietly failing to sync.

Demo Mode's home place now uses a real category, so it is translated.

The "now" label beside a visit in progress no longer wraps onto two lines in languages where the word is long, such as French.

Stops at a station, airport, shopping centre, supermarket or hotel are now named after that place, not a café inside it. A café you've picked before still wins.

The app no longer freezes or stutters shortly after launch — syncing and place tagging now run in the background instead of blocking the interface.

Sign-up now judges password strength the same way the web app does, so a password accepted here won't be refused there.

Updating no longer sends a signed-in device back to the unlock screen when its saved account details were in an older format.

A place name applied to the visit you're currently at now reaches your other devices straight away, instead of waiting until the recording device next uploaded points.

Recalculating travel after new points is fast again instead of getting slower the longer the app is installed.

Recording no longer rewrites the entire travel history every time a location is recorded, which was costing about a second and a half of work every few seconds while moving.

Reopening Byway after it has been in the background now fills in the time it was suspended and updates your visits straight away, so the place you're currently at shows up without needing to restart the app.

Scrolling the timeline is smoother, and the route line now covers the whole visible span instead of stopping partway on wide zooms.

The full backup (JSON) export is temporarily unavailable while visits change how they're stored. GPX and GeoJSON exports are unaffected.

The timeline is much faster to scroll and no longer stutters while visits are syncing.

The visit you're currently at no longer briefly reverts to "Unknown Place" when you reopen the app — its name is kept while the place is re-checked in the background.

Travel between visits is rebuilt once after this update, so the map may take a moment to draw routes the first time you open it.

Travel segments no longer disappear from the timeline after the app recalculates visits, and the recalculation itself is much faster.

Your phone no longer re-uploads the visit you're currently at every few minutes, which saves battery and data while you're sitting still.

Byway no longer reports a sync failure while you have location points but no visits detected yet.

Clearer wording throughout setup, tracking, settings and recovery.

The Stats highlight for your longest journey is no longer called a trip.

Devices shows when no device is recording and explains how to start again.

Turning on tracking for a device now makes it the one that records your location — the separate "Record on this device" setting is gone. Byway tells you when it takes over from another device, and a device that stops being the recorder now turns its own tracking off and says so, instead of sitting there looking like it was still recording.

A place's average time no longer counts visits whose duration couldn't be determined.

Every map that draws your route now leaves a gap where nothing was recorded, instead of a straight line across it.

Merging a visit whose times couldn't be determined no longer makes the merged visit claim exact times.

Old visits are corrected automatically the first time you open Byway after updating.

Siri and Shortcuts no longer report invented times for a visit whose clock was never recorded.

Visits with undetermined times no longer show invented times on the visit detail, place or map cards, and correcting the times restores them.

An edit made on another device could be silently undone a few seconds after it arrived, and the undo would sync back. It sticks now.

Pull to refresh on the Stats screen no longer blanks out the cards behind a second spinner.

Restoring a backup now sends its locations to your other devices, instead of leaving them on this one.

Timeline visits now grow with how long you spent there, so a quick errand and an afternoon with friends no longer look the same. Short visits take up less room, place names line up with their icon, and durations match the web app exactly.

Unlocking your data now asks for one thing, not two: your password when this device still holds your Secret Key, or the Secret Key on its own when it doesn't.

Sync now reports when your encrypted relay storage limit has been reached.

The app lock setting and lock screen now name whatever your device actually uses — Touch ID or your passcode on devices without Face ID.

The selected place icon is now ringed in the accent colour, so it's easy to see which one is picked.

Tapping a travel segment now zooms the map to the whole route, including a trip that starts and ends in the same place.

Byway keeps recording your location while the unlock screen is up, instead of silently pausing until you sign back in. The screen now tells you so.

A place's own subtitle now appears wherever its category used to: in the place picker, in the Places list, and on visits offered to Spotlight and Siri.

Recording is much lighter on the battery: a location fix that changes nothing no longer rebuilds your whole visit history behind the scenes.

The timeline scrolls smoothly over a long history again — the map no longer re-sorts every visit you have as you scroll.

Recording no longer rewrites the whole diagnostic log file for every line it writes, which was a steady drain on battery and storage in the background.

Photos mode and the Map screen no longer stutter over a long date range.

Adding a note or changing a place on a visit no longer locks its arrival and departure times, so the app can keep refining them.

A snapshot written straight after a compaction now publishes correctly instead of leaving the sync stuck.

Byway no longer crashes in the background. A background refresh could kill the app instead of recording, which also stopped further refreshes until you next opened it.

Your Secret Key is now shown in full, over several lines, when you reveal it in Settings.

Selecting a multi-day visit now outlines the whole stay as one box, and an ongoing visit gets its own highlight rather than the selection colour.

Photos taken on any day of a multi-day stay now appear on the visit's card, not just the last one.

Sidebar rows and the tracking card now highlight as you touch them, so a tap is visibly registered.

Places you go to regularly are now strongly preferred when naming a stop, so a spot you visit every week no longer loses to a neighbour a metre or two closer that you have never been to.

A stay you're still on is now outlined all the way around, even when it spans more than one day.

Opening a past trip no longer shows a travel segment running from the end of the trip to the present moment — a trip's timeline now stops where the trip does.

Places show their proper icon again — the Stats screen's Top Places list drew a plain grey pin for every Foursquare place, and editing one opened with the generic pin selected instead of its category's icon.

A place you have just arrived at now appears on your timeline within a couple of minutes, on every device, instead of the timeline showing you as still travelling until you next open the app.

A visit whose times were never recorded now sits on the timeline where its data actually is, rather than hours later.

Selecting a journey that turns out to be an offline gap no longer leaves a stray line across the map.

An offline stretch on the timeline now starts where your recorded data actually stopped, so the row covers the whole gap.

Support emails no longer lose their line breaks when Byway is used on a Mac.

Sync no longer gives up when the relay asks it to slow down, so a large timeline update finishes instead of retrying forever.

A large timeline update now saves its progress as it goes, so if Byway is interrupted part-way it picks up where it left off instead of starting again.

Byway now tells you when it's updating your timeline after an app update, instead of appearing to freeze; and opening the app is quicker, because your history is no longer rebuilt several times over at once.

The loading spinner on Trips, Stats, Places and the Timeline is now a full-size indicator centred on the screen, instead of a tiny one sitting in a small grey box.

Background sync now defers rate-limited publishing when there is not enough time to retry safely.

Visit-heavy screens no longer block other app work while preparing timeline data.

Byway now explains when restoring your timeline from encrypted history may take a moment.

Byway no longer re-uploads your whole timeline over and over after a sync interruption, so syncing settles instead of retrying forever.

Publish status now stays accurate across relaunches and reports interrupted batch progress.

Your Secret Key is no longer stored in device backups or in iCloud Keychain. A device restored from a backup now asks for the Secret Key from your Recovery Kit once, instead of your password.

Byway now checks that a change to your history really came from one of your own devices, using a list only your devices can write. A dishonest server can no longer invent a device and rewrite your timeline.

Your location history is no longer included in iPhone or iCloud backups. A restored device downloads it from your encrypted account instead.

A device restored from a backup now asks which of your devices should record your location, instead of silently recording alongside another one.

The line showing travel in progress is no longer a thick dashed stripe across the map — it now sits at the same weight as the recorded track and glows gently to mark it as happening now.

A journey that mixed walking with a train or Underground ride no longer shows up as a run.

Restoring Byway from a device backup now unlocks with your account password instead of asking for your Recovery Kit, so tracking resumes as soon as you open the app.

An imported workout route no longer draws as a spray of spikes back to wherever your phone was — the map shows the route you actually took.

Short trips are no longer shown as runs — a burst of speed over a minute or two is usually just the GPS catching up, so trips under three minutes stay walks.

A travel leg whose mode you set yourself no longer draws a dotted underline under its caption.

The travel mode picker's "Let Byway decide" is now called "Automatic".

Place pages now actually show the Apple Maps and Google Maps buttons — the row was never resolving which to offer.

The Apple Maps button on a place page now waits in place with a spinner instead of popping in, and both map buttons match the page's other cards.

Long-pressing a journey no longer flashes a shadow across the whole timeline row.

Photos beside a travel leg are now the same size as those on a visit card, and every photo cluster lines up on one edge down the timeline.

Full tracking no longer stays on indefinitely when iOS stops delivering location fixes — Power-Saver Mode now falls back to the last known position to place its geofence.

The Choose Place sheet now shows placeholder rows while nearby places load, and says what happened when there are none — nothing listed here, no place data for the area yet, or a failed load you can retry.

Timeline scrolling is smooth again — the list no longer rebuilds every card on every frame of a scroll.

The map keeps up with the timeline while you scroll — redrawing it is around 40x cheaper.

The timeline now reflows for larger text sizes: cards, day headers and travel rows grow to fit the text instead of clipping it, place names and captions wrap rather than truncate, arrival and departure times scale too, and the map keeps showing a comparable stretch of the day.

The outline around an ongoing or selected stay no longer draws through the date when a day header is pinned above it.

Byway now records that you are still somewhere while parked in Power-Saver Mode, so a stay you are in the middle of appears on the timeline instead of waiting until you move again.

The timeline now shows the journey you are on from the moment recording starts, instead of an empty state until your first stop is detected.

Walking routes are recorded in more detail — Byway now records a point every 50 metres rather than every 100, which stops short walks being drawn as straight lines between distant points.

A trip or place saved on another device no longer disappears a day or two later.

A brand-new account no longer claims you are travelling while you are sitting still — the timeline waits for a visit to resolve, or for you to genuinely move, before drawing the journey line.

Demo mode's stand-in photos no longer show a black wedge in one corner.

A long place name no longer stretches a poster photo's white border, and the poster's title and dates now carry a soft halo so they stay readable over a busy map.

Switches throughout the app now use Byway's green rather than the system default.

Trip card maps now match the appearance you're in, instead of keeping whichever of light or dark they were first drawn in.

Backfill History works again: Byway now reads your Photos and Health data on the device and adds the points straight to your timeline, instead of failing with a server error.

If creating your account fails because the connection dropped, tapping Create account again now finishes the job rather than reporting that your email is already taken.

A WiFi sign-in page or a company proxy can no longer sign you out of Byway: only a rejection from Byway's own servers does.

Signing out now clears everything it says it does: the app no longer keeps the previous account's data when the server rejects a stale credential, the Recovery Kit PDF is deleted rather than left on the device, and app-lock no longer carries over to the next person to sign in.

Signing out now also signs this device out on the server, even after the app has been deleted and reinstalled.

The “Update Byway” screen and banner now take you to the App Store (or TestFlight) to update, and no longer appear over setup, unlock or the app lock.

A background wake no longer records a stale or wildly inaccurate location as a real point — Byway was occasionally planting a fix hundreds of metres away, and then padding the gap around it.

A geofence exit that turns out to be a false alarm is now dismissed rather than waking full tracking for nothing, which saves battery when your phone is sitting still indoors.

Byway can no longer get stuck with GPS running at full power after checking whether you have started moving — a rare stall that quietly drained the battery while the app looked like it was in Power-Saver.

Byway no longer parks in Power-Saver when location access is set to "While Using the App" — iOS never delivers the geofence, significant-location or visit events that mode depends on, so the app could stop recording and then fill the gap in with a stay you had already left.

If Byway closes while you're creating an account, it now picks up where you left off, so the account and its Recovery Kit are no longer lost.

Signing out now removes exported data, logs and trip clips from the device.

Copied Secret Keys now expire after two minutes.

Splitting a visit no longer overwrites a time you set yourself, or closes a visit that is still running.

Signing in with your password and Secret Key now happens in the app instead of a web page, with a scanner for the QR code on your Recovery Kit.

Signing out from Settings now asks first. It erases everything Byway has stored on this device, and previously did so on a single tap with no warning.

Opening a visit from the collapsed timeline sheet now raises the sheet to make room for the detail, and the panel's close and Edit buttons are full size.

Dates in the visit and trip editors no longer get cut off — 13/03/2026 was showing as 13/03/20…

Export now starts on Full Backup, the one format Byway can restore from, instead of GPX. A backup always covers your whole account, so it no longer offers a date range.

The map no longer dims behind an open visit — only the timeline card dims, and the map stays live.

Demo Mode's most recent journey is now on the previous day, instead of opening on up to a day and a half at home.

If your Secret Key isn't saved on this device, Settings now lets you enter it from your Recovery Kit instead of telling you to sign in again.

A visit merged while it was still in progress no longer swallows the next visit you arrive at — or the days it had absorbed.

A slow or interrupted sync upload is no longer re-sent several times over, which could quietly use a great deal of cellular data.

Opening a visit from a widget or from the map no longer scrolls it under the day header — long stays arrived with their name cut off.

The travel icon in the Timeline widget now lines up with the place icons above and below it.

Setting up Byway on a new device is much faster: your history now downloads in parallel instead of one piece at a time.

A flight no longer leaves hours of phantom time at the airport you departed from: while the phone is in airplane mode iOS cannot tell Byway the device has moved, and Byway was reading that silence as "still here".

Screens that were a single fixed page — Welcome, onboarding, Backfill History, the update prompt and the removed-device screen — now scroll at larger text sizes, so their buttons stay reachable instead of being pushed off the bottom.

VoiceOver now reads each visit and journey as one sentence with its place, times and duration, and rows can be opened with a keyboard or Switch Control.

The photo viewer now works with VoiceOver: each photo or video is described with its position and when it was taken, zoom is available as an action, the two-finger scrub gesture closes it, and the thumbnail strip reads as buttons. Its place name no longer truncates at larger text sizes, and its buttons are easier to hit.

VoiceOver now moves into the visit panel when it opens and announces when you switch to editing, the panel's header no longer overlaps its buttons at large text sizes, and the Merge button's label is readable in Dark Mode.

The timeline map's camera no longer flies between places when Reduce Motion is on.

VoiceOver can now find and select the visit markers on the timeline map.

Stats reads properly at the largest text sizes, and VoiceOver can hear every card, including the activity heatmap.

The Place screen reads properly at the largest text sizes, and VoiceOver hears each visit as one sentence.

Trips reflow to a single column at large text sizes, and VoiceOver now reads each card as one trip — its name, its dates in words, and whether it is a suggestion — with Edit, Delete, Confirm and Hide available as actions. Deleting a trip now asks first.

The navigation menu can be closed with VoiceOver and Switch Control, its rows no longer sit under the tracking card at large text sizes, and its animations respect Reduce Motion.

VoiceOver can now find the places on the Map screen, and its controls no longer overlap at large text sizes.

VoiceOver now reads out errors and hints the moment they appear on the sign-up, sign-in and unlock screens, buttons keep their names while they're working, and your Secret Key can be read out group by group and copied with a labelled, full-size Copy button.

Settings, Tracking, Backfill and Demo screens announce progress and read as whole rows in VoiceOver, and the device badge is easier to read.

Widgets now follow the Larger Text setting, the Byway green reads on a dark Home Screen, and VoiceOver speaks durations in words.

With Reduce Motion on, the app's remaining springs and slides become short fades, and indicators that pulse now hold still.

With Increase Contrast or Differentiate Without Colour turned on, Byway now uses shapes and stronger contrast as well as colour: ongoing visits get a dashed outline, Stats shows filled heatmap cells and category percentages, selected icons and colours get a checkmark, and warnings, trip cards and the timeline handle are easier to see.

The icon, emoji and colour choices when editing a place, and the Open in Maps buttons on a place, are easier to tap. VoiceOver now says which icon or emoji is chosen.

VoiceOver now reads distances rounded the same way the screen shows them.

Byway's accent and active states now look more vivid on wide-gamut displays.

Signing out now clears this device completely. A new account no longer opens onto the previous account's timeline, and Map, Trips and Stats no longer fail to load.

You can change a visit's date again — tapping a day in the calendar had stopped taking effect.

The timeline no longer stays greyed out and unresponsive after merging a visit.

Signing in on a new iPhone now shows your history downloading, with how much is left, instead of "No visits yet".

Flights now draw a curved great-circle path on the map instead of a straight line.

About Byway now credits its data sources and open-source dependencies.

Byway now verifies movement before leaving Power-Saver, adapts sooner at familiar stops, and adds a Check for Movement Shortcut. Existing Power-Saver tuning actions have been retired.

The QR scanner for adding a device now shows a targeting square to aim at, and only scans codes inside it.

Place tagging now follows the published cell manifest, so cells that have not changed are reused from your device's cache instead of being downloaded again after a data refresh.

Settings now shows the key management that matches your account, and your Secret Key in the same format as your Recovery Kit.

The timeline now shows your current travel while you are between visits, including its route on the map.

Sync no longer gets stuck in a 'Retrying' state after a failed background publish, and Settings now shows what the last sync failure actually was.

Settings now shows the right key management for your account after you upgrade it elsewhere.

Location points from another device are no longer silently skipped when syncing.

Sync now recovers on devices where pulling changes from your other devices had stopped working, which could leave the timeline missing edits and visits made elsewhere.

Sync problems now show up per operation, and the recorder shows when it last published.

Photos from iCloud Shared Albums no longer appear in the timeline photo section or feed the GPX generator — only your own library does.

Location points now upload in 5-minute batches instead of one at a time, saving battery.

Sync no longer stalls while you're moving: frequent location updates could stop uploads from ever completing.

Edits made on another device now appear in synced visit data without waiting for the phone to move.

The app no longer rebuilds your whole timeline every time you open it.

Byway no longer pauses for several seconds on the first visit in a new area while it downloads map data.

Byway now downloads map data for upcoming visits in the background, so place names keep filling in without pausing.

Place names now fill in far faster when Byway is working through a backlog of visits, and the “Calculating visits…” counter updates smoothly instead of looking stuck.

Scrolling the timeline stays smooth while Byway is working out place names in the background.

Fixed a crash a few seconds after launch while Byway was recalculating visits.

You can now tap anywhere on a row to choose a place in the visit editor — and rows in Manage Places and Settings respond to taps across their full width too.

Fixed a crash on launch while Byway was recalculating visits.

Creating a new place now returns you to the visit immediately instead of hanging on the form.

Reopening Byway no longer makes it recalculate the place name for the visit you're currently on.

Byway no longer reports a sync error when two updates arrive at once — overlapping syncs now coalesce into one instead of racing each other.

Photos on short travel segments are no longer clipped in the timeline.

The obsolete Instance entry has been removed from Settings.

Exported logs now open with a header naming the app version, build, iOS version and device.

Exported logs now name the subsystem that wrote each line, so they can be filtered by area of the app.

The diagnostic log now shows every app log line with severity levels, filtering, and matching exported output.

The app running on a Mac now names itself "Mac" instead of "iPad".

Byway now asks for confirmation before recomputing all visits.

The photo access prompt no longer appears the moment the app opens — it now waits until you start using the timeline.

The launch screen now matches dark mode instead of flashing white.

Device-enrollment QR codes now open directly in Byway when scanned with the Camera app.

Visits you've tagged with a place now appear on the map at the place's location, with the trail bending in to meet it.

Deleting a visit now sticks — some visits (from imported history) could reappear right after you deleted them.

The Byway CLI now installs with 'brew install homegrownsw/byway/byway', and reports a real year-based version.

Explain how to run a manually downloaded byway on macOS, which Gatekeeper quarantines.

Account emails and Summary headlines are now available in Brazilian Portuguese.

Byway now asks you to confirm your email address. Until you do, it can't send you a link to get back in if you forget your password.

If someone asks to delete your account by email, you can now stop it. The email carries a link that cancels the deletion, and Byway tells you when one is cancelled or goes ahead.

Byway now emails you when a device is removed from your account, when your sign-in details change, and when a passkey is added or removed.

Changing your account email now asks you to confirm it's you first. Byway also checks that an address looks like one that can receive mail before accepting it.

Revoked web browsers can no longer keep using their saved sessions.

Revoking a recording device leaves recording paused until you turn it on on your phone.

Add browser security policies and collect privacy-safe reports before enforcing script restrictions.

Demo account creation no longer fails at the last step with a 426.

A sign-up whose confirmation was lost in transit can now be completed by trying again, instead of leaving an account nobody could sign in to.

Feature flags: a single endpoint reports which features an account may use, with availability decided by rulesets an admin edits live.

An incremental cell run no longer re-uploads every cell after an unrelated pipeline change, so a monthly refresh only rewrites the cells that actually changed.

Desktop CLI stats no longer hide sparsely-recorded visits: your visit, place and city counts now match the app.

The desktop CLI now starts an offline row where your recorded data stopped, matching the app.

A large timeline update is no longer rejected for uploading too quickly, and when Byway does need a device to slow down it now says exactly how long to wait.

Fix the migration version collision that had been blocking every deploy since 12 August.

The desktop CLI can sign in and unlock its vault on a passkey-only account: `byway login` now signs you in through your browser — any credential, passkey included — and opens the vault with your Secret Key.

Bound how many password hashes the server computes at once, so a flood of login attempts can no longer exhaust its memory and take the service down.

An invited user's account is now created properly, with its own encryption keys and Recovery Kit, instead of leaving them signed in with nothing to unlock.

Deleting your account now also erases your encrypted data from Byway's storage, on every deletion route.

An admin password reset or a join link can no longer lock an account out of sign-in by setting a password the account's sign-in method cannot use.

Full JSON backups are available again: byway export --format json now includes your visits and the edits you made to them.

The full JSON backup can be restored again: byway import reads a version 2 backup and puts its points back, and says plainly which parts it could not.

Device-enrollment QR codes from the CLI now open directly in Byway when scanned with a phone camera.

Cell generation now reports the manifest-writing phase instead of appearing stuck at 100%, and progress detail no longer carries over from the previous phase.

The desktop CLI now accepts a Secret Key pasted straight from your Recovery Kit.