iOS 2026.04.8

A round of polish for photo challenge gallery, category, and location screens, faster photo challenge loading, easier access to Edit Profile, a tighter user-tracking zoom on the map, and fixes to link taps and rich text rendering on newer iOS versions.

Improved

Photo challenges with many locations and categories now load faster on initial open by combining the challenge and location data into a single round trip and reusing the prepared rows across the Locations, Categories, and Photos tabs.
Tapping a photo challenge location with multiple categories now shows all categories at that location in one place, instead of just one badge.
Map cards now show "Your Location" instead of "Map Selection" when you tap on your own location dot.
Tapping your own profile photo or name on the Me tab now opens Edit Profile.
Recentering on your location now uses a tighter zoom so nearby trails and points of interest stay in view.
Cleaned up the Communities banner by removing the offline-availability indicator.
The My Submissions card on photo challenges now shows the photo count without repeating the word "Submitted".

Fixed

The photo challenge Photos gallery now uses an empty-state message specific to photo challenges instead of generic Social feed wording.
Photo challenge category lookups are much faster on challenges with many locations and many categories.
Photo challenge category cards align text to the leading edge, drop unintended padding around the submission count, and stop showing a generic placeholder image when a category has no badge.
The photo challenge category bottom sheet now shows the task's custom message when one is provided, and hides the badge area when no badge image is set.
Tapping a locked photo challenge location task now opens the lock explanation instead of doing nothing.
"My Submissions" rows in the challenge gallery line up consistently to the leading edge.
Upcoming photo challenges no longer show a JOIN CHALLENGE button when you tap a location or category before the challenge has started.
Photo challenges that filter by community no longer surface tasks from other communities through the new optimized loader.
Hardened the optimized photo challenge loader against rare race conditions where it could fall back and deliver an optimized result at the same time.
Points of interest and waypoints once again show an icon when they appear in shared lists.
The Organizations banner on Home now skips organizations without logos before showing up to ten, so well-branded organizations are more likely to appear.
Links inside social posts and rich text again trigger custom handlers correctly on iOS 17 and later.
Tappable links inside text views stay tappable after subsequent layout updates on iOS 26.
Articles, events, challenge details, and task descriptions render correctly after the app is opened from the background.
Fixed a cache mix-up where unrelated items with the same numeric id could share cached details, occasionally causing the wrong information to appear until the next refresh.