Small phones: on screens with less height, the header and the tab bar take less room, and the light meter gives the viewfinder more space – about twice as much on the smallest phones. Larger phones look as before.

Light meter: a new switch in the settings (Light meter) hides the camera and the shutter button on the light meter page, for anyone who only meters there. The viewfinder gets the room.

Widgets: your rolls on the Home Screen. The small widget shows one camera with its film and frame count; the medium and large ones every camera with film, and the large one also the rolls at the lab, with the days they have been there. Count frames with − and + right on the widget, without opening the app – every other widget follows, and the counter turns red when the roll is full. Touch and hold › Edit Widget to pick a camera; left empty, the small one shows the active camera from the light meter. On the Lock Screen, a widget shows the active camera's frame count.

Camera Control: on iPhone 16 and later, Filmlog can sit on the Camera Control button (Settings › Camera › Camera Control). In the light meter a press logs the frame, and a light press-and-swipe picks the aperture. With the iPhone locked, the button opens a small meter on the Lock Screen: pick the camera there, and its frames go onto that camera's film, photo included, as soon as you open the app. It stays upright, speaks the app’s language and shows the same tripod warning as the meter.

Light meter: the active camera sits next to the reading, with its picture, film and frame count. Tap it to switch cameras; the round camera button logs the frame with the settings and a reference photo. Each camera gets its own row of up to nine favourite apertures, chosen with the pencil, so an f/1.8 lens fits. Tripod and fine-tune warnings appear as red badges in the viewfinder. The controls below the viewfinder now stay put, and the guide explains everything new.

New films: Fomapan R 100 and Foma Ortho 400.

Light meter: while the fine-tune is set to anything other than zero, a red badge sits at the top left of the viewfinder and shows the value — so a correction you set for a filter cannot be forgotten. The value in the fine-tune row turns red too.

Distance: on iPhones with a LiDAR scanner (Pro models from iPhone 12 Pro), the distance to the metering point now appears on the right, below the exposure value — up to about 5 m. Handy for cameras without a rangefinder: set it on the focus ring. Glass, mirrors and shiny surfaces can fool the sensor.

Light meter: a new row of apertures below the ISO row. Pick one and the large display at the top shows the shutter speed to set for it.

A new switch in the settings keeps the ISO and aperture you chose — when you switch pages and when you open the app again. Off by default.

Lab: the months in the archive fold away. Tap a month to close it; a dot shows when a closed month still holds a roll that is due.

Settings have moved to the gear at the top right. The bar at the bottom now holds only the five pages you work with, and its buttons are bigger.

The app is a little more compact on iPhone. An open camera now fits on the screen in one piece and stays put while it is open — no more scrolling past it.

44 more films to pick from, among them Kentmere Pan 200, Harman Phoenix II, Kodak Vision3, Fujifilm Acros II and the black-and-white films from Rollei, Adox and Lomography.

Fixed: two headings in the manual showed "&" instead of "&".

A fifth page: Shutter. Hold the phone close to the camera and fire, and the microphone measures how long the shutter was open. The waveform shows the two sounds, two markers span the time between them, and underneath stands the measured speed, the nearest speed on the dial and how far off it is in stops. Listen back at a quarter or an eighth speed to hear the two sounds apart.

It is a rough cross-check, not a measuring instrument — good enough to ask whether your 1/500 is roughly right or a whole stop off. The page says so itself, and says what it cannot do.

An overview on the lab page. Which film is in which camera, with the frame count and the day it was loaded, and where every roll in the archive stands: taken out, sent in, developed. Dates that are getting old are shown in red. Collapsed by default — tap the line to open it.

The place of a note is found faster now, and the app no longer asks for permission again and again.

Under the hood: the app was rebuilt for the scene lifecycle that iOS 26 requires. Without it, it would no longer have started at all.