Geofency 9 introduces significant enhancements and new features to elevate your experience with iOS 18 and watchOS 11.
What’s New:
• New App Icons: Freshly redesigned icons that automatically adapt to light, dark, and tinted modes, seamlessly matching the new iOS 18 themes.
• Control Center Widget: Instantly clock in and out with a new widget directly accessible from your iOS 18 Control Center, offering quick and easy time management.
• Live Activities on Apple Watch: Stay on top of your events with Live Activities on watchOS 11, allowing real-time updates directly on your Apple Watch.
• 33 New Place Categories: Organize your places with more precision—33 new categories in iOS 18 expand the way you categorize locations.
• Place Info Overview: Now see detailed business hours and user ratings for places, giving you a fuller picture of each location (iOS 18).
• POI Short Info Overlay: After selecting a point of interest, enable map overlays that provide quick access to key details without leaving the map (iOS 18).
• Update POI Info: Keep your place information up-to-date by updating POI details as they change over time (iOS 18).
• Improved Apple Maps Integration: When you open a location in Apple Maps, you'll now see all relevant POI details, including additional metadata (iOS 18).
• Maps URL Generation: Generate URLs that include precise place IDs for easier sharing and navigation with Apple Maps (iOS 18).
• Live Duration Timer: When clocked in, the event editor now includes a live timer.
• Time Zone View: Easily switch between the current and local time zones in the event editor, which is displayed when the place is outside your own time zone.
• Time Zone in Exports: Time zone is now included when exporting your information, ensuring your records are more detailed.
• Widget Configuration: On iOS 18, the configuration view now opens automatically when adding widgets, making it quicker to choose the place.
• Limited Contacts Access: Compliant with iOS 18’s limited access to Contacts, giving you access to necessary data without compromising privacy.
Improvements:
• Compact Timer in Dynamic Island: The timer in the Dynamic Island is now more compact and displays the total time spent today, providing an at-a-glance view of your daily activity.
• Expressive Category Titles: When grouping by categories in the POI view, the category titles are now more descriptive, improving clarity and navigation.
• Modernized Maps Context Menu: The context menu in maps has been redesigned to be more intuitive and user-friendly.
• Enhanced Search Functionality: The search feature now supports more advanced queries, including business categories, country, sub-locality, and administrative area, making it easier to find exactly what you're looking for.
Bug Fixes:
• Addressed a rare issue where widgets could crash after using the "Hide POI" feature.