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

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
  • 📦 Payload size reduced by ~25% thanks to image transfer improvements
  • 🔋 Lower CPU, battery, and memory usage during uploads
  • 📷 Much better memory usage with tethered cameras
  • 🧠 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
  • Uploaded / Unuploaded status
  • Roll filtering
  • 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
  • Does not upload or save duplicate data
  • 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
  • 📶 Cellular generation (if available)
  • 📶 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
  • 🎃 Halloween
  • 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)

🧍 Full vertical images now fit on iPhone screens

🔄 Update checks run automatically when refreshing events

📧 Tap-a-Face email validation now matches Check-In pages

🔄 Upload status updates immediately after each upload

📲 Tablets can now use portrait orientation throughout the app

✨ v5: Complete UI Refresh

Version 5 introduces a polished new interface:

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

New popup styling!

Vertical orientation for iPad! Yay!

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

🍬 Candy Improvements

Candy continues getting faster and smarter:

  • ⚡ Faster Candy responses
  • 🔎 Faster Candy Navigation results
  • 🧠 Improved event search for newly created events
  • 🎛️ 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
  • 🧾 QR Code generator downloads now export at 1024px
  • 📑 Scan card PDFs now sort duplicate participants exactly like the Capture App
  • 🎨 Offer editor popups for adding products and packages are now wider with product category tabs
  • 📊 Event order list diamond-press counts now include quantities correctly
  • 🧭 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
  • Success feedback (add to cart, order placed)
  • 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.

💰 QuicPics Adjustment

Good news for high-volume QuicPics users:

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

That means QuicPics 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 QuicPics 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!

You can see it here: https://www.quic.pics

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 🍬

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Setting Up Canon Wireless 📸

Ready to shoot pics and upload them to the cloud without a cable tether? There are a few steps involved!

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  2. Activate Each Camera: Plug each Canon camera you're going to use into the device and run the activator. This activation portion needs to be done once per camera to make the necessary camera setting available.
  3. Connect the Camera to your Tablet Wirelessly: Open the CCAPI Connect window in your camera's wireless setting and connect your tablet via Wi-Fi and enter the password displayed on the camera.
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  • EOS R8
  • EOS R50
  • EOS R6 Mark II
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