2026-01-20

New this week: Upload-Flow Improvements

• info about missing required fields when tapping the greyed-out upload button
• validate and sanitize filenames before upload
• when an upload did fail, you can now see more details about the issue
• failed uploads can now be resumed or retried (depending on the type of error)
• smaller UI styling adjustments in a few places

This set changes should make uploads more robust, easier to reason about and easier to recover from failed uploads.

Known Issue:
The original fullsized image sometimes fails to load when opening the zoom viewer.
This is partly due to a change on the backend and there is a tentative fix (adding a referer header to requests),
but needs further discussion. See Phabrikator-Ticket T413570.

Thanks everybody who send feedback, much appreciated!

2025-11-29

This release features mayor changes to the map making,
making it more useful and hopefully also more intuitive.
This is just one iteration on Map features, expect finetuning and more bigger features to come! :)

MAP

• new Tab-Icon for consistency
• images and categories can now be shown on the map (via context menu or small inline map in the detail views)
• when you long press on an empty location on the map, you will now be presented with items in a 250m radius around that coordinate that you pressed
• split location (categories/wikidata items) and images into 2 separate map layers that can be switched
• highlighted items on the map now have labels
• clusters are now positioned by center of density instead purely by their mathematical center, making the cluster button positioned more naturally
• a selected cluster now has the boundary-outline instead of a radius, which better reflects the geometry and density of items in a cluster
• clusters with only 1 item show that item with its image directly on the map
• the map sheet is now using the native sheet-model implementation which has some upsides, but also some gotchas.
• the map sheet now indicates the (rough) address/location of a cluster of items
• when opening a category/map location in another app, the system-wide default app for navigation will now be opened (eg. Organic Maps instead of Apple Maps), this may be an iOS 26 or EU-only feature, not 100% sure.

OTHER CHANGES

• add pluralization in some places
• some smaller label and icon adjustments in menus

2025-10-07

• UX changes for iOS 26
• uploads will now continue even when you move the app into background
• Uploads are now sorted into meta categories ("uploaded with CommonsFinder", "mobile upload")
• Cluster buttons on the map are now easier to hit
• Images can now be enlarged and zoomed within the detailed view
• more info when an upload failed