This is My Life

About This is My Life

This one is quite a big bump! Moments can now be placed on a map Add a photo and the location fills in from the photo itself, if it has one. Start typing a place and you'll get suggestions, so a moment is pinned to a real location rather than just text. Moment details now show a map below the photos — tap it for a full map you can pan and zoom, and drag the pin if it isn't quite in the right spot. A bigger family tree Great-grandparents and great-grandchildren now appear, taking the tree to seven generations. The tree sizes itself to what's on screen — a small family draws large and clear, a deep one stays legible — and spreads sideways to use the full width. Pinch to zoom and faint arrows show which way to drag for more. Tapping someone re-centres the tree on them. Adding family is clearer too: one field places a person in the tree (parent, child, partner or sibling), and a separate one is simply how you describe them in lists — aunt, cousin, grandparent, whatever fits. A new look for Present Mode Presentations now open on a redesigned keepsake card and finish on a matching closing card, with four cover styles to choose from: Antique Gold, Forest & Brass, Oxblood & Silver, and Midnight & Rose Gold. Captions show the month and year of each moment, and presentations move at a quicker default pace. A quicker start Setting up is three screens instead of four, and the app now looks for an existing story in iCloud before anything else — if it finds one, you go straight in. Signing in with Apple is optional: skip it and sign in later from Settings whenever you like. New installs can also restore from a backup file directly, without waiting on iCloud. Sharing Photos to the app You can now choose the category when sharing a photo from the Photos App. If a photo hasn't finished downloading from iCloud yet, the share screen tells you instead of appearing to do nothing. And if you keep more than one story on your device, a shared photo is filed into whichever story was open when you shared it. Also fixed Siri and Spotlight could answer using a story you had switched away from. Photos could stay as placeholders after switching or restoring a story, until you reopened the app. Backups now keep private moments, photos excluded from presentations, and map locations. Location suggestions no longer hide behind the keyboard, and tapping anywhere on a suggestion selects it. Present Mode's opening card no longer gets cut off in landscape. On iPad: a taller map on moment details, the timeline sidebar stays put when you open a moment with photos, and long-pressing a card no longer opens the neighbouring card's menu. Family tree labels no longer overlap in the PDF storybook.

App privacy

The developer, Brian O'Riordan, reported these privacy practices to Apple.