Weekly Recap: Capture App v5, Faster Candy Culler & New Retail Themes 🍬📸

Hey photo friends! 👋

This week’s update is a big one. The new Capture App v5 for iOS has officially landed with major performance improvements, a refreshed UI, and some helpful workflow upgrades.

On top of that, Candy Culler just got significantly faster, retail got a couple new themes, and several tools across the Dashboard have been refined.

Let’s jump in.

📱 Capture App v5 (iOS) — Major Upgrade

Capture App Version 5 brings a full UI refresh, major performance improvements, and several new quality-of-life tools for shooting events.

⚡ v5: Faster Uploads & Better Performance

A brand-new upload system significantly improves efficiency:

• 📤 Uploads can be up to ~20–30% faster
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• 📦 Payload size reduced by ~25% thanks to image transfer improvements
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• 🔋 Lower CPU, battery, and memory usage during uploads
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• 📷 Much better memory usage with tethered cameras
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• 🧠 Improved overall memory performance across the app

These improvements should make long shooting sessions feel noticeably smoother.

🖼️ v5: New Image Gallery & Filters

The in-app gallery has been redesigned with better filtering and navigation:

• Image name search
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• Uploaded / Unuploaded status
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• Roll filtering
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• Event filtering

Filters are easy to remove with a single tap, similar to the Dashboard experience.

🔁 v5: Duplicate Photo Warning

The Capture App can now warn you about duplicate images during a shoot:

• Works only within the current session
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• Does not upload or save duplicate data
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• Can be disabled from the Resources page if desired

This works independently from the Dashboard’s Candy Culler duplicate detection, giving you duplicate awareness both during capture and afterward.

🧰 v5: New Event Overview Info

The event overview page now includes helpful connection details:

• 📡 Carrier name
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• 📶 Cellular generation (if available)
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• 📶 Current Wi-Fi network

This can help troubleshoot upload issues while shooting events.

🎨 v5: Photo Booth Background Packs

Photo Booth now supports downloadable background packs:

• 🎄 Christmas
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• 🎃 Halloween
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• More to come!

The default pack is now a downloadable set as well, which keeps the main app much smaller and makes OTA updates faster.

🔧 v5: Additional Capture App Improvements

🌍 International phone numbers supported in Positive ID (were already supported in Tap-A-Face)
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🧍 Full vertical images now fit on iPhone screens
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🔄 Update checks run automatically when refreshing events
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📧 Tap-a-Face email validation now matches Check-In pages
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🔄 Upload status updates immediately after each upload
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📲 Tablets can now use portrait orientation throughout the app

✨ v5: Complete UI Refresh

Version 5 introduces a polished new interface:

• Modern sheet-based UI
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• Improved dark mode styling
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• Larger login and event selection screens
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• Updated phone number input interface
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• New image details sheet
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• Cleaner image gallery layout

Overall, the app feels faster, cleaner, and more modern.

🧠 Candy Culler: Now 5× Faster

Candy Culler processing has been dramatically upgraded.

⚡ Up to 5× more images can now be processed at once, bringing it in line with Jersey Jotter throughput.

This means faster detection for:

• Duplicates
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• Blurry photos
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• Exposure issues
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• Closed eyes
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• Other culling checks

🍬 Candy Improvements

Candy continues getting faster and smarter:

• ⚡ Faster Candy responses
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• 🔎 Faster Candy Navigation results
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• 🧠 Improved event search for newly created events
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• 🎛️ Refreshed Mini Candy UI

Pro tip: Press CMD + A / CTRL + A to toggle Mini Candy.

🧾 Dashboard Improvements

Several useful refinements were made to the Dashboard:

• 📊 Fixed Faces Report chart showing empty data
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• 🧾 QR Code generator downloads now export at 1024px
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• 📑 Scan card PDFs now sort duplicate participants exactly like the Capture App
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• 🎨 Offer editor popups for adding products and packages are now wider with product category tabs
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• 📊 Event order list diamond-press counts now include quantities correctly
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• 🧭 QR Creator and Image Tester now appear in Sidebar Find

🎨 New Retail Themes

Candy's Note: We hope you enjoy the pupper pics!

🍵 Matcha Theme – a clean green storefront (great for spring or St. Patrick’s Day)

🍠 Ube Theme – a bold purple theme

Bonus: Retail UI styling also received improvements for tabs, checkboxes, and order tracking.

📳 Haptics for Mobile Retail & Check-In

Mobile users will now feel subtle feedback interactions when using the site:

• Tap feedback
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• Success feedback (add to cart, order placed)
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• Error feedback

This makes mobile ordering and check-in feel much more responsive, alive, and engaging!

🤳 Selfie Check-In Improvements

The Selfie Check-In site received improvements to the local face recognition model, making it more reliable and stable on more devices.

💰 FreePics Adjustment

Good news for high-volume FreePics users:

Selfie Check-Ins and PhotoRoster reference images no longer count as billable images.

That means FreePics events that use those workflows will be slightly cheaper overall.

📥 Easier Downloads on iPhone

On iOS Chrome: Press-and-hold image downloads now open the iOS Share menu, making it much easier to save images. (iOS Safari already supported this behavior.)

🌐 New FreePics Landing Page

The Quic.Pics site now has a proper landing page instead of only a login screen in case end customers stumble across it somehow.

Hopefully this helps it seem more legit while still remaining relatively white-label for your photographers out there!

That’s the week!

Capture App v5 is a big upgrade, and combined with the faster Candy Culler and several Dashboard improvements, the entire workflow from capture → cull → sell just got smoother.

See you next week,

Candy 🍬