What's new.

Quick Route

• Added route planning directly on the map, bringing destinations, route settings and journey progress into one place
• Free accounts can plan a starting point and up to three destinations, with sign-in required to calculate and start the route
• Add destinations from place search, saved pins or tags, including selecting several stops before adding them together
• Import addresses from photos or the camera on supported devices, then review and select the recognised destinations
• Added clearer feedback for unreadable images, unresolved addresses, duplicate destinations and stop limits
• Choose driving, walking or cycling, with an option to return to the starting point
• Use your current location or saved Home and Work addresses as shortcuts
• Drag stops into your preferred order and edit individual destinations without rebuilding the route
• Compare the current and optimised stop orders, including estimated time and distance, before accepting changes
• Keep the current route unchanged when cancelling optimisation or when a calculation fails
• Added clearer calculation progress, error messages and retry controls

Following a route

• Added a journey view showing the next stop, remaining distance, estimated finish time and route progress
• Added location-based arrival detection for Quick Route, while full routes retain manual stop updates
• Added clearer feedback when location access is unavailable or Pin Drop needs to remain open
• Pause and resume a journey while keeping completed stops and recorded progress
• Add destinations, edit unfinished stops or optimise the remaining journey
• Return to the map without losing the active route
• Tap individual stops to focus them on the map, then return to the full route overview
• Improved route lines, stop numbering and map positioning around the route panel

Saved routes

• Brought saved route creation and editing into the shared map-based route experience
• Eligible paid accounts can name and save an itinerary, update the original route or save a separate copy
• Added a clearer route picker for adding a pin to an existing route or creating a new route
• Improved opening routes containing places that are not already saved in the pin library
• Added route search and date sorting, alongside refreshed route cards and empty states
• Improved renaming and saving, keeping changes available to retry if saving fails

Route stop updates

• Refreshed the screens for completing, skipping, rescheduling and reporting issues at stops
• Added clearer access to notes, photos and attachments recorded against stop updates
• Improved reason selection for skipped stops and reported issues
• Improved rescheduling with tomorrow, next working day, next week and custom future date options
• Rescheduled stops create the associated follow-up task and record the update before leaving the screen
• Added confirmation before discarding rescheduling changes
• Fixed completed stops reverting and progress totals becoming inconsistent after syncing
• Prevented repeated taps and failed retries from creating duplicate stop updates or notes

Directions

• Refreshed the directions chooser with clearer travel summaries and navigation app options
• Show installed navigation apps, with additional choices available through the expanded menu
• Pass the remaining itinerary to apps that support multiple stops
• Offer an appropriate destination choice when an app supports only a single stop
• Improved arrival estimates, launch errors and retry handling

Maps

• Added a clearer indicator of the direction you are facing
• Improved location following, heading-follow mode, recentring and resetting the map to north
• Improved handling of zooming, rotating and dragging so location updates do not unexpectedly override your gestures
• Prevented presses on map controls from triggering unintended actions on the map underneath
• Made switching between saved pins, search results and places more reliable
• Prevented delayed place details or dismissal events from reopening an old preview
• Improved loading and responsiveness for large pin collections
• Improved clustering, cluster expansion and the return to individual pins when zooming in
• Improved marker updates so changes to icons, labels and selection appear more consistently
• Improved small map previews so the marker stays aligned with the saved location

Pins

• Refreshed pin details with clearer ownership, contact information, coordinates, elevation and address sections
• Added an email field when creating or editing a pin
• Improved email, phone and website actions, including copy options when the relevant app cannot be opened
• Made addresses and coordinates easier to copy
• Fixed address edits retaining the previous map location
• Keep the editor open when an address cannot be resolved, with clearer guidance before saving
• Added confirmation before discarding unsaved pin changes
• Added clearer discoverability controls for Free pins and Pins or Archived selection for paid accounts
• Improved ownership controls so they appear for the appropriate account types and permissions

Pin swipe actions

• Expanded quick actions for editing, sharing, favouriting, directions, tasks and archiving where available
• Added longer swipe gestures for the relevant edge action, while keeping short swipes for revealing options
• Added clearer confirmation before deleting a pin
• Improved coordination between rows so opening or closing swipe actions behaves more predictably
• Added a long-press shortcut from pin rows to filters
• Improved feedback when a deletion is saved locally and is waiting to sync

Favourites

• Made favourite status consistent across pin lists, search results, profiles and selection screens
• Improved favourite badges on pin images and smaller list items
• Added favouriting to supported pin swipe menus

Tags

• Create a tag directly from the text entered in tag search
• Hide the create suggestion when the same tag name already exists
• Restore your search, selection and keyboard state when cancelling tag creation
• Improved sorting descriptions and the layout of sorting controls
• Made tags easier to recognise in filters through their colours and icons
• Prevented recent tag edits being replaced by older information during syncing
• Improved handling of newer edits from other devices and tags awaiting deletion

Filters and search

• Refreshed list filters with clearer Apply and Reset controls
• Keep filter changes separate until Apply is pressed, and restore saved choices when cancelling
• Improved combining search with people, status, location and date filters
• Improved searching within tags and kept archived pins out of ordinary search results unless requested
• Added clearer route selection views for places, pins and tags
• Improved selection limits, duplicate-stop handling and cancellation while place details are loading
• Added clearer empty states, loading feedback and retry options when results cannot be loaded

People and pin pickers

• Refreshed people selection with clearer names, roles and selected states
• Search people by name or email without losing your current selection
• Apply people changes through Update, with unconfirmed changes discarded when cancelling
• Improved single and multiple pin selection, including selections made through tags
• Kept search inputs more stable while results and selections update
• Improved loading feedback for accounts with larger pin libraries

Visits

• Made visit recording and visit history available to signed-in Free accounts
• Added sign-in guidance where authentication is required
• Refreshed the visit editor with visit dates, star ratings, companions, photos and videos
• Added controls to change or clear a rating
• Improved companion selection, including excluding yourself where appropriate
• Kept visit notes available on Pro, while preserving existing notes when editing from a Free account
• Improved searching across active and completed visits, locations, descriptions and companions
• Improved failed-save retries while retaining media and avoiding duplicate visits
• Preserved existing ownership, dates, companions and older attachments when editing
• Improved deletion confirmation and handling of visits waiting to sync

Notes

• Added search across note and comment text
• Improved combining note search with saved filters
• Refreshed note creation, detail screens and list cards
• Improved scrolling, keyboard behaviour and access to writing, filtering and closing actions
• Fixed note detail layout issues and improved handling of notes without a linked location

Tasks

• Added search across task text, linked locations and assignees
• Improved combining search with assignment scope, status, location and due-date filters
• Refreshed task creation with clearer description, due date, assignee and location controls
• Refreshed task details with clearer status, assignment and deadline information
• Improved access to status changes, sharing, comments and linked pin actions
• Preserved drafts when cancelling pickers and improved visibility of actions according to permissions

Photos and videos

• Refreshed the media viewer with smoother opening and closing transitions
• Improved full-screen viewing, thumbnail navigation and showing or hiding controls
• Improved video loading and buffering behaviour
• Remember playback position when returning to a video
• Improved fallback and retry handling when a video source cannot be played
• Improved recovery and display of missing video thumbnails
• Reduced unnecessary preparation of media that is not currently visible
• Improved transitions between media previews, pin details and the media library

Attachments and media management

• Refreshed attachment browsing and selection controls
• Improved selection counts and confirmation before deleting one or several files
• Improved handling of media and attachments passed between editors and browsers
• Respect read-only access throughout media viewing and attachment screens
• Improved controls so editing, adding and deletion are offered only when permitted

Uploads

• Made the Upload Queue easier to find when uploads are pending
• Added clearer file types, upload states and failure messages
• Added individual retry controls and an option to retry all failed uploads
• Added an option to select a missing or empty file again
• Improved guidance when signing in again is required before retrying
• Improved recovery of older local photos when syncing them to an account
• Prevented duplicate upload attempts during media preparation and local photo recovery
• Prevented late updates from making a completed upload appear unfinished or replacing its uploaded file reference

Sharing and linked items

• Refreshed sharing options with clearer link-duration choices and indicators for paid options
• Improved progress, timeout and failure messages while generating share links
• Prevented repeated sharing actions while a link is being generated
• Refreshed linked-item selection for routes, lists and surveys, with clearer counts and adding states
• Improved the comment composer and access to posting comments from detail screens

Account and profiles

• Added a redesigned Account screen with clearer personal and workspace sections
• Improved access to settings, profile, billing, team and other permitted workspace controls
• Refreshed profile details, account badges and membership information
• Improved profile editing, profile links and sharing
• Added mutual friends to public profiles
• Added profile pin search by name, address or description
• Keep the same profile search when switching between map and list views
• Improved access handling when approval or friendship permissions change

Notifications

• Brought email and push notification preferences together in one screen
• Choose email, push, both or Off for each supported notification topic
• Improved handling of device notification permissions
• Keep successful preference changes when another channel fails, with clearer retry guidance

Settings

• Refreshed language selection and reused the same language picker during onboarding
• Improved metric, imperial and custom measurement choices
• Improved individual choices for distance, altitude, area and temperature
• Added a 12-hour or 24-hour clock preference
• Applied the clock preference across routes, directions, visits, tasks, comments and other date displays
• Added an Addresses screen for setting, changing or removing Home and Work shortcuts

Syncing and offline changes

• Made the last successful sync time shorter, clearer and appropriate to the selected language
• Improved restoring saved workspace data when reopening the app
• Reduced repeated work when loading and updating larger workspaces
• Improved handling of pending edits so older refreshes do not overwrite newer local changes
• Improved deletion and archiving so removed or archived items do not unexpectedly return after syncing
• Improved the distinction between changes that have synced and changes waiting to retry
• Keep blocked changes available when workspace access prevents syncing, and resume them only after access is confirmed again

Subscriptions and workspace access

• Corrected the default upgrade selection to Solo where no other plan has been selected
• Added clearer confirmation when payment has been received but subscription activation is still in progress
• Added an option to check activation again when it takes longer than expected
• Explain when another payment is not needed
• Improved handling of restricted or read-only workspaces during creation, saving, deletion and background syncing
• Prevented rejected deletions from discarding local data or being presented as successful

Team invitations

• Solo trial users can invite teammates by email or link without first reaching a purchase screen
• The first invitation switches an eligible Solo trial to Teams before continuing
• Added clearer progress and friendly error messages during the trial switch
• Prevented repeated taps from starting duplicate switches or invitations
• Stopped late invitation results from unexpectedly changing screens after the invitation panel has closed
• Public team links now guide signed-out users through sign-in and reopen the invitation afterwards
• Improved approval checks and handling of expired sign-in sessions
• Improved return-to-map navigation after signing in

General improvements

• Updated translations for new features, settings, permissions and error messages
• Improved spacing, rounded sections, button sizes and sorting menu layouts
• Improved panel sizing, scrolling and keyboard handling across the app
• Improved background blur consistency and transitions between screens
• Improved accessibility labels, selected states and reduced-motion behaviour in updated controls

Maps and location

• Added a direction cone showing which way the user is facing
• Updated the location button to switch between following the user’s position and following their heading
• Improved centring and zooming, preserving closer views and making longer camera movements smoother
• Made panning, pinching and rotating stop automatic tracking, while tilting pauses it without losing the selected mode
• Restored the previous map angle after heading tracking, unless the user manually rotates the map
• Reduced compass jitter and sudden heading changes, with better handling of calibration, GPS accuracy and returning from the background
• Prevented compass taps from passing through to the map
• Enabled map rotation and points of interest by default, while preserving explicit user preferences
• Removed the separate follow location setting, bringing that behaviour into the location button
• Fixed pin sizing, including changing from Large back to Small and refreshing the displayed markers immediately (user feedback)

Large pin libraries and map performance

• Reduced repeated filtering, sorting and rendering when loading large pin collections (user feedback)
• Added a 500-marker limit in dense map views to reduce rendering and memory pressure, while keeping the full pin list available (user feedback)
• Fixed clustering remaining visible when switched off, showing individual pins instead and revealing more as the user zooms in (user feedback)
• Improved cluster expansion on Apple Maps, showing individual pins at closer zoom levels when they fit within the marker limit
• Added a fallback map refresh after pinch gestures when the normal camera callback is missed
• Reduced unnecessary marker animations and native redraws
• Fixed bottom map controls appearing or remaining off-screen during heavy loading

Offline data and synchronisation

• Separated large workspace data from smaller settings, reducing repeated saving and memory usage (user feedback)
• Removed duplicate cached workspace data only after a durable replacement has been saved successfully (user feedback)
• Added safer offline saving, keeping the previous snapshot if a write fails or is interrupted
• Preserved pending local changes, offline data and refresh timing when restoring saved state
• Added account and workspace checks to prevent cached data from being restored into the wrong account
• Improved migration from older saved data and avoided loading unused legacy payloads for signed-in users

Photos, videos and media previews

• Added a dedicated full-screen media preview, with animations opening from and returning to the selected thumbnail
• Added pull-down dismissal, including smooth cancellation and a fallback when the original thumbnail is off-screen
• Preserved the pin card’s scroll position and expansion state when returning from a preview
• Improved preview backgrounds, controls, status bar transitions and full-screen playback
• Kept video playback, seeking and full-screen controls usable during preview gestures
• Added recovery for missing video thumbnails in media grids and strips
• Improved original media loading, including authenticated files, encoded filenames, storage paths and alternative download sources
• Preserved playback position and play or pause intent when switching sources or retrying failed playback
• Released inactive video players and limited media caches, keeping cached files separate between accounts
• Updated the attachment browser with consistent headers and bottom controls
• Fixed attachment deletion being reflected in drafts, including removing the final attachment, while preserving other photos and videos
• Preserved read-only restrictions and unsaved attachment selections when moving between screens

Photo upload recovery and Upload Queue

• Added recovery for uploads left queued by older app versions, moving legacy photos into the persistent upload queue and retrying eligible failures once (user feedback)
• Repaired outdated iOS file paths caused by app updates when the original file is still available (user feedback)
• Added checks for missing, empty or unreadable files, with clearer failure reasons and appropriate retry behaviour (user feedback)
• Prevented failed uploads from creating broken photo references, while preserving existing uploaded photos and cover images (user feedback)
• Added Select file again for missing or empty files, replacing the failed attachment in its original position without losing other photos (user feedback)
• Protected upload recovery from cancelled replacements, discarded uploads and outdated background results (user feedback)
• Redesigned the Upload Queue with file-type icons, filenames, upload status, failure explanations and clearer Retry and Discard controls
• Added a sticky Retry all failed uploads action and improved scrolling and bottom spacing
• Renamed the account entry from Sync status to Upload Queue, displaying it when a signed-in user has queued uploads

Favourites and pin cards

• Restored clearer access to Favourites, including the heart action and the favourites collection (user feedback)
• Renamed Saved to Favourites and updated the explanation of how the feature works
• Added favourite badges to pin images, lists, search results, profiles and pin pickers
• Positioned the heart beside the share controls, with animated movement as the pin card expands and darker red pressed feedback
• Applied Free and Solo access rules, while keeping team plans excluded and respecting pin editing permissions
• Allowed eligible synced personal pins to be favourited without incorrectly blocking them because of their source workspace
• Prevented repeated favourite updates and added clearer error feedback
• Improved pin card height, text spacing, button placement, rounded corners and safe-area spacing
• Removed unnecessary grey pressed feedback from the expanded pin card header

Notes

• Redesigned the notes list, creation, editing and detail screens with consistent title headers, gradient blur and sticky bottom controls
• Fixed search bar behaviour and added working note search with clearer empty and no-results states (user feedback)
• Preserved active filters, locations and attachments during note editing
• Fixed reused note cards showing stale creator or location details
• Standardised Edit, Share and Comments controls on note details

Tasks

• Redesigned the task list, creation, editing and detail screens, including keyboard-aware forms and consistent bottom controls
• Fixed search bar behaviour and added search across task text, locations and assignees (user feedback)
• Added clearer access to For me, Anyone and Unassigned views, while retaining status, assignee, location and due-date filters
• Preserved required fields, Solo and team permissions, owner assignment and people selection
• Standardised task status menus, keeping their selected state consistent and avoiding unnecessary saves
• Updated sharing, linked pins, comments, editing and deletion controls, preserving permission checks
• Refreshed the comment composer to match the shared screen layout

Visits

• Redesigned the visit list, check-in, editing and detail screens, with consistent headers and sticky controls
• Fixed search bar behaviour and added search across locations, creators and attendees (user feedback)
• Preserved active and completed sections, with status, people, location and date filters
• Improved empty states and check-in actions, respecting the user’s permissions
• Preserved automatic checkout and checkout-zone settings in the updated forms
• Updated Share, Checkout, Add to pin and Comments controls
• Fixed Invalid Date displays by adding a fallback for valid dates when timezone formatting fails

Routes

• Redesigned the route list, creation, editing and detail screens
• Fixed search bar behaviour and added search across routes and their stops (user feedback)
• Added clearer newest and oldest sorting, including safe handling of invalid dates
• Standardised the map and list controls and route detail layout
• Updated Share, Edit, Add stops, Optimise, Start and Pause controls
• Preserved driving, walking and cycling modes, GPS starting points, loops, stop selection and reordering
• Updated the route status sheet, retaining Complete, Skip, Reschedule and Report issue actions
• Added press feedback and repeated-navigation protection to route, note, task and visit cards

Filters, tags and people pickers

• Rebuilt filter sheets with draft selections, applying changes only when Apply is pressed
• Made closing a filter sheet discard unsaved changes, while Reset updates the draft until it is applied
• Preserved existing filter combinations, including filters not shown in a particular sheet
• Added Create tag above filtered results, prefilled from the search text and automatically selected after saving
• Preserved search, selections, sorting and keyboard focus when tag creation is cancelled
• Standardised sorting icons and descriptions
• Reworked the people picker with alphabetical sorting, clearer names, email addresses, roles and selection ticks
• Added explicit Update behaviour, disabling it when nothing has changed and discarding draft changes on cancellation
• Restricted the pin owner section to eligible team plans and users with the required permissions
• Rebuilt the pin chooser with a stable search field, debounced results and better handling of large collections
• Preserved pin chooser searches and selections when closing and reopening it
• Supported immediate single-pin selection and explicit multi-pin updates, retaining selection limits and tag or task-specific filtering

Sharing, linked items and directions

• Updated Add to pin, Linked to and Share sheets with consistent glass controls and list rows
• Preserved feature permissions and upgrade prompts for notes, visits, tasks and routes
• Improved linked-item navigation and the route chooser, including returning to the correct collection
• Refreshed share duration selection, retaining hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and permanent options with their existing access rules
• Preserved share generation, loading states and error handling
• Redesigned the Directions sheet, with installed navigation apps, estimated distance, travel time, arrival time and Add to route
• Standardised item footers, menu spacing and empty-state layouts

Account and profiles

• Renamed the main Settings entry to Account and redesigned its appearance
• Added clearer profile details, avatar styling, plan information and administrator badges
• Grouped personal and workspace account options, preserving role and billing restrictions
• Added consistent Edit and Share controls
• Improved personal profile pins, tags, followers, contact synchronisation and privacy wording
• Removed unused Lists and Badges placeholders
• Added profile link copying confirmation and clearer guidance when a username is missing
• Improved joining-date formatting, including server timestamps with fractional seconds and invalid-date handling
• Protected Follow, Cancel request and Unfollow actions against repeated presses
• Added public profile pin search across names, addresses and descriptions, ignoring case and accents and preserving searches between map and list views
• Improved public profile map framing and navigation when access to shared pins changes
• Prepared mutual friends support for profiles where the API supplies that information

Settings, languages and units

• Refreshed language, map, notification, unit, update-channel and data-management screens
• Added a shared language picker for onboarding and settings, showing native language names and clearer grouping
• Made language changes apply immediately, saving in the background and preventing older profile data from overriding the latest choice
• Added individual distance, altitude, area and temperature settings, supporting Metric, Imperial and mixed Custom preferences
• Improved headers, back-button spacing and accessibility
• Updated translations and plural forms across all language catalogues, including British and US spelling where appropriate

Email and push notifications

• Combined email and push preferences into Off, Email, Push or Both choices for each topic
• Organised personal notifications for security, features, offers, guidance and tips
• Organised workspace notifications for pin activity, members, tasks and team activity, with reports and summaries for eligible Teams Pro plans
• Kept required security notifications enabled
• Requested push permission only when push notifications are selected, with guidance when permission has been denied
• Improved preference saving and recovery, preserving successful channel updates when another update fails

Maintenance and verification

• Updated Expo dependencies and expo-device-hub, including the move to version 0.15.3 of the latter
• Improved simulator keychain checks, icon mappings, icon review data and shared button colours
• Expanded regression coverage for search history, map behaviour, filtering, pickers, tasks, routes, uploads and synchronisation
• Checked large-library startup and map behaviour with collections of around 21,000 and 30,000 pins in the iOS simulator

... and probably a few more things we've forgotten to mention. Enjoy!

What's new in Pin Drop

This update makes it quicker to find the pins you need and gives you more control over how your map looks. Search, photo uploads and translations also work better throughout the app.

Find the pins you need

We've rebuilt the Filters screen with clearer menus. Tag lists now expand only when you need them.

• Your filter changes don't apply until you tap Apply filters. If you close the screen first, the unapplied changes are discarded.
• Free accounts can now filter by public or private pins.
• Eligible team plans can filter projects by value range.
• Filtering within a tag is easier, with a select-all option. Untagged and archived pins are now handled properly.

Make your map your own

Map Settings has a new design.

• Preview the Standard, Satellite and Hybrid map styles before switching.
• Go back to the original settings in one tap with Reset to defaults.
• Teams Plus plans can show saved territory boundaries on the map.

Apple Maps fixes

• Points of interest now show up reliably and can be selected.
• Your points of interest setting no longer resets when your subscription updates.
• We've fixed blank map tiles that could appear after panning or zooming.

More reliable place search

• Autocomplete, choosing a location and slow connections are all handled better.
• If a location can't open, you'll see a clear message with an option to retry.
• Search results follow your app language. Recent searches still work after you change language.

Photos and syncing

• Uploading a photo no longer changes unrelated photos or cover images.
• Older images stay intact. If an upload fails to confirm, it now retries automatically.

Other improvements

• If your workspace is read-only, trying to edit now shows a clear message asking you to renew your subscription.
• More of the app is translated, including activity, edit history and workspace screens. Dates like "2 days ago" now follow your app language.
• Contacting support from a workspace opens your default email app.
• Upgrade panels and Get Started screens look cleaner. Locked Pro tiles respond when tapped and pop-up panels fit the screen properly.
• Notification sounds on Android work correctly again.

• Scrolling in drawers: Long menus now scroll properly, keeping content accessible on smaller screens
• Bottom-sheet sizing: Fixed an issue where a sheet could open almost collapsed instead of expanding to fit its content
• Translations: Added missing translations across onboarding, settings, imports, routes and other screens, with improved handling of plurals and dynamic text
• Fixed issue with timing out prematurely when getting workspace data

Pin Drop has been rebuilt from the first screen you see to the last control you tap. There is a new interface throughout, a search that finally reaches every corner of your map and a first run that gets a new user to a saved place in under a minute rather than leaving them staring at an empty map.

Three things drove this release. The first is that opening Pin Drop for the first time asked too much of people: an empty map, no explanation and an account wall before any value. That is now a guided journey you can take without signing up at all. The second is that finding things had quietly stopped scaling. Once you have a few hundred pins, a few routes and a handful of territories, a search that only looks at pin names is not a search. The third is that the interface had grown in layers over several years and needed one coherent system rather than a dozen local decisions.

Alongside that, a long list of reliability work: uploads that keep their order and survive a restart, video that plays properly, team changes that appear without a manual refresh and units and dates that are finally correct everywhere.

TL;DR

• New look throughout. Redesigned pin cards, drawers, buttons and sheets, built on one component system, in light and dark.
• Search that finds everything. Pins, tasks, notes, routes, visits, territories, tags, people and places, grouped with counts.
• A real first run. Guided first pin, suggested tags and a Get Started checklist. Try it before making an account.
• Your language. A full language picker and far wider translation coverage.
• Video and uploads that behave. In-app playback, stable ordering, a visible queue and retry.
• Live team updates. Changes from other people appear as they happen.
• Plans in the app. Solo, Team and Team Pro, monthly or annual, with trials and seat selection.

Getting started

The first-launch experience is new from top to bottom. A rebuilt welcome screen, a Start mapping guest journey so you can use the app before deciding anything and sign-in with Apple, Google or email built in properly rather than bolted on.

It is also resumable. If you close the app halfway through setup, you come back where you left off. Signing out no longer makes the app treat you as a brand-new install. If storage, authentication or permissions fail, there is a safe route onward instead of a dead end.

The startup itself has been rebuilt too: a native splash, an animated icon and wordmark sequence, then a curtain transition into the welcome screen, with reduced-motion support for anyone who would rather not have it.

Location and notification permissions are now their own screens, with artwork, an honest explanation of what each one buys you and a Maybe later that genuinely means later. If you grant permission in system settings instead, the app notices and moves on.

Your first pin is guided. New accounts and guests go straight into placing a pin, with a live address preview, rotating suggestions, a Name this place step, suggested tags such as Food, Travel, Client and Ideas, plus a live preview of the pin colour and icon as you choose.

A Get Started checklist then covers the things that make the app useful rather than just installed: dropping a pin, filling the map through imports, organising places, backing up with an account, planning a route and inviting your team where that applies. Progress shows in the account drawer and the map profile button.

Search

Search is now a bottom sheet and drawer rather than a single field. It searches across Pin Words, coordinates, pins, tasks, notes, territories, routes, visits, places, tags and people.

Results are grouped by type with counts, so you can see at a glance where a match came from. Sections expand with Show more. Recent searches are kept and can be cleared. You can bias a search around a selected pin, or search inside a single tag. There are proper loading, empty and no-results states, plus a warning when part of the search could not reach the server rather than silently returning less.

You can also create a pin directly from a place result.

The map

Drop-pin controls have been redesigned with the new interface, with rotating suggestion messaging and more reliable reverse geocoding, including a background pass that fills in addresses for pins that were missing one.

When precise location is not available, the app now falls back to an approximate position from your connection, draws a radius overlay so you can see the accuracy you are getting and frames the camera sensibly around it. Precise coordinates no longer linger after you withdraw permission.

Fixed: Android pins that sometimes did not appear, pin taps that did not reliably open the pin card, map reloading when the theme changes on Android, compass and heading reset and accidental pin taps while a drawer is opening.

Pin cards and details

The pin card and detail sheet are rebuilt around the new sheet system, with better snap points, gestures and dismissal. Pin detail now loads in stages with proper skeletons rather than blocking on a full fetch, transitions between pins are smoother and tags read better in both the card and the pin list.

Photos and video

Media handling has been substantially reworked. Uploads now hold stable identities so ordering is preserved, there is a single upload queue shared across the map, account, pin and media screens. Queued, uploading, failed and completed states are visible rather than implied.

You can retry a single upload or every failed upload at once. That state survives an app restart. Failed work backs off exponentially rather than hammering, permanent server rejections stop retrying and a pin's own details can still sync even when one of its images cannot.

Video now plays inside the app, with play, pause, buffering, seeking, elapsed time and duration, poster images while loading, full screen and playback position preserved as you move between media.

Working together

Workspace changes now arrive in real time, so a teammate's edit appears without a manual refresh.

Roles and permissions have been centralised into one evaluation path and applied consistently across pins, media, people, custom data, routes, tasks, visits, pipelines, territories, sharing and settings. Actions you cannot perform are now hidden or disabled rather than failing when you tap them. Locked workspaces behave predictably when a subscription or trial ends.

Organising

The Organise section is rebuilt around Tags, Territories and Places visited.

Tags gain search, sorting by name, created, updated or recently used, persisted sort preferences, reordering, statistics including pin count and coverage, search within a tag, pin selection and removal, plus a dedicated picker for managing membership. Tag colours and labels are more readable.

Places visited brings recent visit history into the same place, with guidance on the permissions visit tracking needs, a direct route to device settings and controls for clearing history.

Plans and billing

The upgrade experience has been reworked for Solo, Team and Team Pro, with monthly and annual billing, seat selection and team-size pricing, plus a route for larger workspaces that do not fit the standard tiers.

Purchasing now runs through the App Store and Google Play catalogues directly, with trial status and countdown, next invoice information, team renaming, in-app renewal of an expired Team trial, billing warnings for administrators and clear contact-your-admin messaging for members.

Language

A full-screen language picker with country flags and native language names, grouped into popular and additional languages, including separate English and US English.

Changes apply immediately, persist locally and save to your profile when you are signed in. Translation coverage has been expanded across onboarding, search, account, apps, imports, routes, tasks, visits, territories, pipelines, settings and error states, with better plural handling and validation that stops placeholders being lost in translation.

Interface

Underneath all of the above is a new component system: a bottom sheet with floating, inset, solid, transparent and glass variants, hug, partial and full-screen snap points, sticky headers and footers, plus proper keyboard synchronisation. A button system with primary, outline, glass, card, light, dark, destructive and hollow variants. Typography, inputs, tags, tabs, checkboxes, toggles, dividers, list items, cards and prompts, all theme-aware.

Deletion confirmations now use a single consistent prompt rather than varying by screen.

Also fixed

• Unit settings redesigned with Imperial, Metric and Custom, with independent preferences for distance, altitude, area and temperature
• Weather values using the wrong unit
• Timezone handling for server timestamps and UTC date display
• A stuck loading state during workspace loading
• Navigation bounce, duplicate actions and double-fired buttons across drawers
• Six-image grid stability and media context menus on both platforms

Under the hood

Expo, React Native, RevenueCat, routing, image, linking and update dependencies refreshed. iOS scene lifecycle support, updated privacy manifests and required-API declarations. Android splash handoff, verified links, instant app and App Clip configuration. Analytics expanded across onboarding, authentication, account setup, upgrades, purchases, sharing, imports and creation, with signup and login-source attribution.

Test coverage has grown considerably: unit and component tests across onboarding, permissions, first-pin creation, search, maps, drawers, tags, billing, authentication, media, uploads and video, plus Maestro end-to-end flows for interrupted onboarding recovery, permission journeys, account setup, first pin, imports, backup and sign-in, sign-out navigation and media-grid stability. A QA runner covers personas, scenarios, device setup and release checks.

• Blank map or pin list: Fixed an issue where the map or pin list could occasionally remain invisible after opening or navigating around the app
• Disappearing location dot: The user's blue location dot now stays correctly synchronized with the phone's location permission
• Faster location updates: The locate button now responds immediately when a recent location is available and continues looking for a more accurate position in the background
• Better location-permission handling: Declining location access no longer sends users unnecessarily to another settings screen.
• Disappearing bottom action bar: Fixed the reported issue where the bottom bar containing the add, search and menu actions could disappear
• Smoother and faster search: Search results now load and scroll more efficiently, particularly with longer result lists
• Improved search layout: Fixed scrolling boundaries, kept the empty-results message centered, and prevented the keyboard from covering the list results
• Search now has images: Pin and User profile images are now displayed where available
• Letter-based tags: Tags can now use one or two letters instead of an icon. Suggested letters are generated automatically from the tag name and appear everywhere the tag is used, including map pins and lists
• New Hybrid map style: Added a Hybrid option alongside Default and Satellite in the map section of Filters
• More relevant map preview: The map preview in Filters now reflects the area currently being viewed instead of always showing a fixed example location
• Better translations: Improved singular and plural wording for item counts across supported languages

• Faster, smoother map performance
• New "Extra Small" pin size for a cleaner map
• Move Pin now respects your preferred map provider and style options
• Fixed an occasional blank map while panning on iOS
• Clearer, more responsive option selection in Settings
• Easier location access with clearer prompts and direct links to App Settings

Fix for search bar.

Fix issue with map labels.

Various fixes.

Dynamic data loading support.

Speedups for large amounts of locations.

Fixes issue with sharing tags.

Fixes issue with custom data saving and team invites.

Fixes for searching and speed ups.

An early look at the new Pin Drop web app. Some areas are fully functional, others are still in progress. We are building this openly and your feedback will shape what comes next.

Fully available:

• Signup,
• Onboarding
• Search
• Pins
• Tags
• Profile setup

Coming soon:

Login, profile editing, create, data, settings, Home dashboard, routes, pipelines and projects, territories, custom data.

You can switch back to the classic web experience at any time. Send us feedback if something feels unclear, broken or missing.

A small patch update:

• Support for Apple Maps
• Map and list speed ups
• Ability to resize pin markers
• Fixed issue with dropping a pin from search

A small patch update:

• Fixed tag lagging on pin preview

A small patch update:

• Map speed improvements
• Update to routing (Android)
• Bug fix for dropping pins from search results

A small patch update to fix some bugs:

• Map performance improvements (Android)
• Data issues (iOS and Android)
• Apple login issue (iOS)

When we started to bring Pin Drop back to life, we were inheriting over 10 years of code. Everyone's data was held locally on their devices, so if they lost their phone or the app stopped working, that was it. We moved to a cloud-based infrastructure so your data is always accessible, backed up and secure.

In 2025 we decided the old design and architecture needed to be rebuilt from the ground up. The result is what we have creatively named v6.

Fresh design

The app and website have been rebuilt from scratch, with serious speed improvements.

New base map

We switched from Apple to Google Maps for enhanced satellite cover and improved clarity at high zoom, allowing for more accurate pin placement.

New features

• Custom data on pins
• Territories
• Pipelines and projects
• Improved data management
• Visited and archived pins

Lists have been deprecated in their current form. Existing lists become tags of the same name in the organised section.

Brand new web app

The web app had a full refresh to bring it in line with where we are heading. We will keep improving it alongside the apps.