Changelog

What changes have been made to Terrene Dash?

2025.2

More decimals!

→ New feature - More decimals!
  • Tapping the middle of the speedometer, barometer, or altimeter dials toggles a decimal place
  • Thanks Tracy for another great idea! Enjoy!

2025.1

UI tweaks

○ UI improvements
  • Changed the dial borders to a subtle drop shadow
○ Code maintenance and cleanup work
  • Changed the minimum required version to iOS 17
  • Fixed missing app icon in Help & Support

2024.4

Button hiding and UI tweaks

○ Auto hide the Dial Gallery and Settings buttons
  • They’ll appear when you first start the app or if you tap on the screen, and disappear a few seconds later.
○ Improved the menus
  • The system status bar won’t peaking through anymore
  • No more weird double pop up when going to Settings then My Dashboard
!! Oops!
  • Fixed a bug where the app got stuck in limbo land if you’re on the last dashboard and delete it. Now it’ll send you to the last visible dashboard.

2024.3

Speedometer update

→ New feature - Top speed indicator
→ New feature - Speedometer defaults for your region

2024.2

Clock update

→ New feature - 12 or 24-Hour clock setting

2024.1

Barometer fix

!! Oops!
  • Oops! Fixed the Barometer which now requires Motion & Fitness authorisation

2023.3

Spring clean

○ Updated Help & Support links
!! Oops!
  • Fixed a bug where the Today trip meter wouldn’t reset at midnight if you hadn’t used the app in a while.

2023.2

GPS Status

→ New feature - GPS Status
  • See if the device is receiving data or not
  • Shows the current accuracy
  • Hides itself when the accuracy is good
○ Changed how the Battery Status looks
○ Minor change to how the Trip Meter looks

2023.1

Trip Meter

→ New Trip Meter
  • Added four resettable trip meters to the Speedometer
  • The Today trip meter automatically resets after midnight
○ Barometer
  • Added millimeters of mercury (mm Hg)
○ Rebuilt all dials
  • All dials draw faster and use less resources
  • The Clock dial uses 4 times less CPU
○ Code maintenance and cleanup work
  • Changed the minimum required version to iOS 16

2022.4

Terrene Dash!

→ We're now Terrene Dash!
  • Also gave the app icon a nice update.
→ Battery level indicator
  • While the phone is not plugged in, the current charge level is displayed
  • Thanks again Maarten for this idea! Enjoy!
○ Changes to work better at night
  • The dark-mode dashboard background is now pure black
  • The home indicator bar disappears after a few seconds
○ Various code maintenance and cleanup work
  • Changed the minimum required version to iOS 15

2022.3

Compass clarity

○ Improved the compass clarity for North, East, South, and West. North now has a red marker.
  • Thanks again Maarten for your suggestions! Enjoy!
!! Oops!
  • Fixed a bug for iPhone 8 Plus devices, where the dashboard in landscape wasn't displaying correctly.

2022.2

Course over Ground (COG)

→ Course Over Ground (COG)
  • Using the GPS, this show the direction your vehicle is moving.
○ Each dial in the dial gallery now has a description

2022.1

Landscape mode

→ Landscape mode
  • Thanks Maarten! Enjoy
!! Oops!
  • Fixed a bug, so the compass now continues to work while swiping between dashboards

2021.6

Altimeter and UI tweaks

→ New Altimeter dial, configurable in feet or meters
  • This is a three-pointer altimeter, displaying 100, 1000 and 10000 feet or meters
○ Refreshed all dials with a larger main digital display, and slimmer background dial markings
○ Optimised dial code to use less device resources
!! Oops!
  • Fixed a bug, where it would add instead of replace a dial, when there was only one dial on that dashboard

2021.5

New icon, UI tweaks, and fixed the hour clock hand

→ New and improved app icon
○ Changed the UI from a tab bar to a tool bar.
  • This is in preparation for other tool bar buttons in future updates.
○ Optimised the compass and clock dials to decrease CPU usage.
  • This seems to help reduce the phone going into overheat protection mode (ie. display dimming) when it's hot outside and attached to your windscreen.
○ More colour tweaks in dark mode to make sure it's using pure black for OLED displays.
!! Oops!
  • Fixed the Clock hand positions, to show the correct time during daylight savings. Fortunately, the digital clock was showing the correct time.

2021.4

Compass and barometer updates

→ Dashboards
  • You can configure up to 5 dashboards with 2 dials each
  • Make the dashboard full-screen, hiding the tab and status bars
→ Dial Gallery
  • Preview all available dials, with more on the way
  • Choose a dial, configure it, and add it to the dashboard
  • You can also replace existing dials too
→ Settings
  • Re-order and remove dashboards
  • Set a preference to always use light or dark mode
  • Links to the Terrene homepage, help and support websites
○ Increased the dial sizes a bit more
○ Changed the dark mode dials to have a completely black background to improve clarity

2021.3

Compass and barometer updates

→ New Barometers for Kilopascals (kPa), Inches of mercury (in Hg), and Pounds per square inch (psi)
→ New Compass for true north
  • Increased the dial sizes and added more markers to improve clarity
  • Improved wording when requesting location access
!! Oops!
  • Fixed the Speedometers for Knots and Meters per second to now have correct dial markers

2021.2

Clock and a barometer

This update includes a 24-hour clock in your current timezone and a barometer measuring the atmospheric pressure in hectopascals.

2021.1

Launch!

Welcome Terrene!

To start with, I've added a Speedometer in km/h, MPH, Knots and m/s and a Compass.

This is the start of many instruments/gauges/tools/etc to be added to the Terrene toolbox.