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Emblem 1.6.71 is available now on the App Store and Google Play.
Emblem 1.6.70 gave the special Passports and Pavilions a look of their own. Emblem 1.6.71 is about everything around your trips: planning the next one, remembering the last one and finding your way in the app. It brings a new Search, a map you can filter, a Pavilions page that opens on a world map, six more Pavilions in their own look and a glass look across the app.
Next trip and Memories: Plan your next trip, and meet your Emblems again
Next trip is a private list for the places you want to see. Save Emblems, places, events and Pavilions to it from their pages. The list groups them by Pavilion and shows how many of each Pavilion's Emblems you already have, adds an event's dates to your calendar and gives you directions. Only you can see it.
On iPhone, if you allow Always location, Emblem tells you when an Emblem on your Next trip list, or a place where you can use a reward you won, is close by. It also reminds you two days before a reward ends.
Memories brings back an Emblem you collected on this day, now and then and at most once a month. After a long break, a short Welcome back shows what is new in your Pavilions and Passports and the rewards waiting for you.
Places you follow: Hear what is new in the places you love
Tap the bell "Tell me what's new" on a place, a Pavilion, a Passport or a brand to follow it. Emblem then tells you about its new Emblems, events and Passport openings, at most once a week and never at night. The first time, a short sheet explains what you will receive, and nothing is sent until you turn it on.
You can turn it off at any time in Settings, under Notifications and Places you follow, or for one place under Manage. The news also appears in your Activity.
Collecting and gifts: Keep it or gift it, in three clear steps
Collecting now starts with one choice: keep the Emblem, or send it to someone as a gift. If you keep it, three steps follow. Your moment holds your Dual photo and your message, Who sees it is a single switch, and Extras gathers the rest. If you gift it, you choose who it is for first, then the box, your note, a birthday and when it arrives. The button always says what is still missing, then "Send to" and the name.
If Precise Location is off, Emblem asks for it once while you collect. If an Emblem cannot be collected yet, the page says why and what to do next.
You now see when a friend opens your gift, and you can hide gifts you have sent.
Feed and sharing: A livelier feed, and more moments to share
Latest now shows events and posts from brands and artists next to your friends' collects. Pinch an Emblem in the feed to zoom in where your fingers are and move around in it.
Share a finished Passport, a Lucky win or a new title to the feed, and your friends can congratulate you. When you share an Emblem, pinch to zoom on it, and it turns with your phone like a card in your hand.
When your Following tab is empty, it suggests people who collected the same Emblems as you.
Passports, Search and Discover: Passports one tap away, and one Search for everything
Passports is now the second tab of the app, so your Passports are always one tap away. Each shelf on the Passports page, such as Continue, Pavilions or Cities, opens as its own page with See all.
Discover moves to a button in the Feed's header and becomes a page of widgets: your progress, a Passport in focus, top collectors, Pavilions in their own colours, rewards, titles and more. Several of them swipe sideways, like the widgets on a phone's home screen.
Search is new. One field finds Emblems, Passports, Pavilions and people. Each kind is a chip with its count, the part you typed is in bold, and every kind shows its first results and See all.
Map: A map you can filter, with a card for every place
The map has new filters for Passports, Pavilions, Lucky Emblems, Events and Rewards, a To collect view that shows only what you have not collected yet, and a Legend.
Tap a place to open its card, then swipe through its Emblems, each one in its Passport's look. The globe now hands over to the map without a pause, and you can tap a country's name on the map to open its Pavilion.
Pavilions: Pavilions open on a world map, and six more have their own look
The Pavilions page now opens on a world map, framed on where you are. Featured Pavilions swipe past in their own colours, flag first.
China, the United States, Brazil, Russia, Germany and Spain join Luxembourg, Türkmenistan and Finland as Pavilions with a look of their own, taken from their flags and their culture.
More Pavilions list their Regions and Territories, flag first. China, the United States, Brazil, Russia, Germany, Spain and Luxembourg show theirs on a map you can tap, and Luxembourg's 12 cantons have pages of their own. A Pavilion lists our own dishes and songs first, with travellers' suggestions below.
Drag a slider to see each Pavilion in 1.6.70 and in its own look in 1.6.71.
China Pavilion
United States Pavilion
Brazil Pavilion
Russia Pavilion
Germany Pavilion
Spain Pavilion
Passports, profile and titles: Your profile, shelf by shelf
Your profile now shelves your Emblems by Passport, so each collection sits together under its own cover.
The country Passports are now part of the Expo Passport. Each of their Emblems still shows in its country's Pavilion.
The Titles page is cleaner: titles stand on shelves in their tier's colours, and each one shows how many people hold it.
Rewards, Coins and quizzes: Rewards, Lucky Emblems and Coins, each with a page of its own
Rewards and Lucky Emblems have their own pages, sorted by Passport. Rewards you can use are ready as tickets, and each Passport shows how many more Emblems unlock its next rewards.
The Coins page shows your purse, your next missions and what you can use your Coins on, all in one place.
Quizzes are open any time, in your language: start a Pavilion or Emblem quiz whenever you like.
A new look and the Portal: Glass across the app, and a Dressing room in the Portal
The tab bar, the menu, the map's buttons and the Portal now share a glass look, and the tab bar names each of its icons.
A new welcome lets you sign up over a wall of Emblems, with the Terms and the Privacy Policy together on one page.
In the Portal, your character has a new Dressing room, can stand in for you on the map and moves more freely.
On iPhone, and faster everywhere: Music on the lock screen, foldable iPhones and a faster app
On iPhone, the music of an Emblem or a Pavilion keeps playing when the phone locks, with play and pause on the lock screen. On a foldable iPhone, the unfolded screen shows a list and a page side by side.
Settings are sorted into clear groups, large text is better supported, the app starts faster, and everything from Emblem grids to follower lists opens more quickly. Many smaller fixes come with this version.
Update Emblem
Update Emblem in your store to get version 1.6.71. Your Emblems, Passports, titles and Coins stay as they are.