Changelog

New 🎉 - Beacons make their debut in the app

This new version introduces a new feature, "Beacons" (Les balises font leur apparition dans l'application. (Bêta)), which you can read about in a previous article. To summarize, you can add beacons during your trips and attach a note to them to help you on your next trip. Your caregivers can also add beacons from the platform to flag an obstacle or a helpful tip during your trips with SonarVision.

Comfort of use for the RTK device

When navigating with RTK, heading is now calculated the same way as navigation using the camera. This means the phone can be held with the camera facing up, down, in landscape mode, or even flat.

Navigation is no longer interrupted after a loss of internet connection (loss of RTK precision), but only when accuracy is no longer sufficient to ensure precise guidance. This avoids interrupting guidance as soon as the internet connection drops in rural areas or on hiking trails, as accuracy usually remains sufficient for several minutes.

UX improvements for our users

For our visually impaired users and caregivers, we have added maps to easily view the locations of various places featured in the app.

We have improved the navigation interface by increasing button sizes in VoiceOver mode, making them easier to locate when searching across the screen.

Bug fixes

• The instruction Aligned with the crossing was not always announced correctly.

• The Create a new address button from the starting or ending point of a trace did not appear when an associated street address could not be generated. (This typically occurred on traces recorded during a hike).

New features and improvements

Pre-guidance warnings

Pre-guidance warnings (low battery and night mode) have been redesigned to be displayed after the destination has been selected and before the scan stage. Previously, these warnings were displayed at the same time as the scan stage, which could cause confusion, particularly with VoiceOver. In addition, they will only be displayed once per hour at most to avoid being displayed as soon as guidance is started. Pre-guidance warnings can also be disabled in the “Navigation” section of the app settings.

Distance display

Distances in the application will now be displayed using the unit of measurement specified by the user in their phone settings.

Bug fixes

• Confirmation dialogs no longer displayed the “Cancel” buttons since iOS 26.

• In certain very specific cases, the app could select a route that crossed to the opposite sidewalk even though a route existed on the sidewalk where the user was located.

• Sometimes, the instruction issued by the reassurance button was followed very quickly by the same instruction.

New features and improvements

Sonarvision now includes a new settings page for voice configuration.

You can choose from all the voices installed on your iPhone and adjust the speed, volume, and pitch to personalize how instructions are read aloud.

This update follows a bug introduced by Apple in recent iOS versions, which temporarily prevents apps from automatically using the VoiceOver voice selected in your system settings.

While waiting for Apple to fix this issue, Sonarvision now gives you full control over the voice used for navigation guidance.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that could prevent Sonarvision from selecting the shortest itinerary when generating an automatic route.

• Fixed a bug where the initial distance and reassurance messages were not announced during bird’s-eye guidance.

• Fixed a bug when adding an address via scan, where the “Add” button did not always update the interface correctly, sometimes leading to duplicate address creation.

• Improved address search and addition, especially when the device has no internet connection, and corrected minor typos.