iOS Update 3.3 Now Available: View and Copy Friend's Diaries, Decimal Servings Entry, and More
Posted on 2011-11-14 by mike
***UPDATE: I added a note about a change in the weekly net calorie view explaining why we made the change, and how people can still retrieve the old value. See below for more info.
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We've just released a new update to our iPhone app! Here's a rundown of the new features:
- View and copy friends' diaries: By default, your food and exercise diary is completely private. But if you'd like, you can now elect to share your diary with your friends in the app. Your friends can then view your diary from within the app, and copy entire meals you've logged to their own diary. We hope this will be useful for people who usually dine together. Now only one person has to log the meal; the other can view their diary and copy all of the entries with just a couple taps.
- Decimal servings option: We've added a decimal toggle to the dialog for entering the number of servings you've eaten of a particular food. By tapping the Decimal button, you can now enter the number of servings you are using a numeric keypad instead of the old fraction scroll-wheel. This should be particularly useful for people weighing their foods in grams. Instead of having to scroll all the way to 98, you can now just tap "98" on the keypad - plus, you can enter in a number of servings greater than 99.
- Barcode scanner now works with fixed focus cameras: We've improved our barcode scanner so that it now works on additional devices such as the iPod Touch and iPad 2.
- Weekly graph now shows weekly total: Many of our users manage their calories on a weekly, not daily basis. On the weekly view from the Home screen, we had always intended to show your weekly total, i.e. how many calories over or under you are for the entire week. However, we had mistakenly shown a daily average number there instead. This has now been fixed, and the weekly number is correctly displayed in this version. If you are looking for the old average number, you can hold your finger on the "Avg" column in the graph, and the numeric value will appear above the column.
After updating, view our "What's new in 3.3" video to see a video about our new features.
We are working on updates for all of the other apps as well, so stay tuned.
If you have any questions or experience any issues with the update, please just let us know.
Thanks, and hope you are all enjoying MFP.
Best,
Mike, Al, and the MFP team
I'm very excited to be able to see people's diaries on my phone!
Is there any chance of making the update work on older versions?
A native IPAD APP would be fantastic.
Unfotunately, since I did theu pate I can't even run MFP on my iPhone anymore..it wont' even open.
Would like to see a way to manually enter bar codes on the website and the app.
Have not tried any of the other features yet...
Apart from the above; I am REALLY REALLY PLEASED with the new updates particularly the Decimal option for non-US users like me who weigh in grams:-)
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
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One of my Wish List improvement items is:
- Ability to edit Recipes Ingredients' amount; currently you have to delete an Ingredient row and add a new one
Please help! It takes forever to type & search...
(Otherwise, totally awesome app!)
My goals are still in pounds and ounces as with the gym weights but my weight is in kgs.
my mares works fine but i cant get mine to play the game.
if you know what to do please add geckofli and share the knowledge
please
and thankyou
If you are creating a recipe and use the barcode scanner to add an ingredient, when you add it, MFP adds it to your diary instead of the recipe.
Hope this would be an easy fix! I LOVE scanning ingredients! Thank you!
If net calories for the week is what you are sticking to then on iOS, please make sure to switch the text "average daily net calories consumed calculation only includes days where at least one food item has been added to your diary". Right now it is not functioning that way. Today is Monday and I've entered breakfast and lunch and it says I have 8040 calories left for the week. I liked it much better where it would tell you only for the days that had something listed.