Back to What's New

Wrapping up 2025 by polishing the experience

Wrapping up 2025 with a quiet but productive holiday session. Instead of pushing new features (a lot of work is coming soon), we dedicated this release to…

• Wrapping up 2025 with a quiet but productive holiday session.
• Instead of pushing new features (*a lot of work is coming soon*), we dedicated this release to quality, fixing bugs, reducing tech debt, and polishing the experience you use every day.
• This update focuses on the foundations that make Placify reliable over time: accuracy, performance, and consistency across your everyday workflows.
• Over the past months, we noticed a pattern in user feedback and internal usage:
• Photos occasionally linking to multiple places
• Map performance degrading as data grows
• Search and memory-related flows becoming less responsive in edge cases
• These weren’t always obvious issues, but they added friction over time.
• For this release, we chose to pause feature expansion and invest in making Placify more dependable for long-term use.
• We refined the way photos are automatically associated with places:
• Each photo now links to a single, most accurate place
• Reduced duplicate and conflicting associations
• Improved confidence in automatic place detection without sacrificing flexibility
• Added photo capture time filtering in Map view
• Optimized map loading behavior for larger datasets
• Added new Smart View templates
• Including *Review Your 2025*, offering new ways to revisit your records
• Fixed incorrect place memory notifications
• Resolved performance issues in place category search
• Added support for resetting photo capture dates
• As we move into 2026, we’ll shift our focus back toward new features and deeper experiences.
• Before that, our goal with 1.3.3 is simple: make Placify something you can trust every day.