PaddlePalPaddlePal 2026.19
In this release
New Features
- A new pace chart in every workout detail shows how your pace changed across the session
- Live pace now appears on the iPhone recording screen, in the Live Activity, and on the Dynamic Island
- Challenge reminders: turn on notifications and PaddlePal will tell you about new challenges and remind you before they end
- Reviews from other paddlers now appear near the top of every paddle spot, with a one-time tip pointing them out
Improvements
- Apple Watch widgets now respect your distance unit and show live, always-current timestamps
- The iPhone stats widget now honours your speed unit preference
- The statistics calendar keeps a stable five-week layout and its loading placeholder matches the real grid
- Smoother, more responsive app: several causes of brief freezes while scrolling and viewing weather have been removed
- Apple Watch uses less battery during GPS tracking
- Clearer VoiceOver descriptions and better contrast in many places, including when Reduce Transparency is on
- A friendly message now appears if saving a route fails
Bug Fixes
- Fixed workouts stuck showing "Locating..." in the logbook, including workouts recorded on Apple Watch
- Fixed the watch occasionally starting a session paused, with a resume button that did not respond
- Fixed live distance, pace, and splits freezing for the rest of a session after you stopped moving for a while
- Saving a workout on iPhone is now more resilient: a problem at the end of a workout no longer loses your session
- Fixed the Live Activity timer not starting if you paused right at the beginning of a workout
- Fixed the upgrade screen going blank during temporary network problems
- Fixed exported GPX and FIT files overwriting each other when they had the same name, and you are now told if an export fails
- Fixed the statistics calendar occasionally dropping the oldest day of the last 30 days
- Emergency beacon messages now use your real name instead of a generic fallback if available
- Fixed heart rate zone details missing from some older workouts
- Fixed a crash related to Siri suggestions
