Rods — Corner & Road Alerts

Version 1.7.7 Improvements - Free Roam now recalculates the road ahead about 3x faster when you leave the planned route. - Your Free Roam driven trail now stays on the map for the whole session, colored by corner difficulty. - Morning and evening Rods messages on the Home screen now appear at the right time of day. Bug Fixes - Fixed Free Roam gradually slowing down and overheating the phone on longer sessions, which could make the car icon and route line vanish. - Fixed drives going silent for the rest of the session after a route recalculation hiccup. - Fixed the Free Roam car icon jittering back and forth along the road. - Restored the settings button on the Free Roam drive screen. - Callouts are no longer dropped when the audio system is briefly busy — Rods now retries. - Callouts now recover and play when Siri or another app briefly holds audio while Rods is in the background.

Version 1.7.5 Bug Fixes - Fixed pace-note callouts going silent mid-drive at low speeds when GPS accuracy drops. - Fixed routes you build before creating an account not appearing in your saved Routes. - Fixed route details briefly disappearing while a long route loads.

Version 1.7.4 Improvements - Create Route now snaps your pins to the correct nearby road. - Faster, smoother rating prompt. Bug Fixes - Fixed routes occasionally drawing a straight line instead of following the road. - Fixed voice pack downloads that could get stuck or keep restarting. - Fixed callouts staying silent even when the voice pack was ready. - Fixed occasional errors importing routes from Google Maps links. - Fixed callouts arriving late on newer phones. - Fixed an app freeze that could happen under memory pressure. - Fixed crashes on newer devices and while loading map data.

Version 1.7.3 What's New - Import a route straight from a Waze share link. - Spoken alert when you drift off-route with weak GPS, so you're never left in silence. Improvements - Voice packs now upgrade automatically when an improved pack is released. - Smoother Free Roam with less lag on long drives. - Pace notes stay better aligned with your position between GPS updates. Bug Fixes - Fixed Free Roam callouts occasionally going silent or arriving late. - Fixed Free Roam repeating roundabout calls, and false roundabout calls under tunnels. - Fixed Free Roam repeating the same speed-bump callout. - Fixed "Caution, roundabout" going silent on older voice packs. - Free Roam now saves your full drive even when the trace is trimmed. - Free Roam saved routes now show speed bumps and surfaces in preview. - Fixed pace notes freezing on long drives after a GPS dropout. - Fixed a freeze on the drive screen caused by a display loop. - Fixed a crash when opening Create Route. - Fixed the car icon facing the wrong way or vanishing through corners. - Fixed Bluetooth callouts fading in at the start of every prompt. - (iOS) Fixed callouts going silent after a mid-drive audio glitch. - (iOS) Fixed callouts going silent after a phone call or Siri interruption mid-drive. - (Android) Fixed an audio-service crash when returning to the app mid-drive.

Version 1.7.2 Improvements - Better Google Maps link import — now handles country domains (like google.de), links pasted inside a message, and multi-stop links. - Smoother map on very long routes — fixed lag and a cut-off route line while driving and in the route preview. Bug Fixes - Fixed your music or podcast volume briefly dropping when a drive begins. - Fixed a rare Home screen crash linked to the 3D car preview.