For various reasons, I’ve not been able to give Mimi the time and attention I’d hoped over the last several months, but I’m actively trying to change that. I’m working on an update that takes a fresh approach to the photo selection flow by utilizing new features coming in iOS 14.

iOS 14 has a powerful new system provided photo picker that lets users pick photos from their library. The new picker has great features for browsing, searching, making multiple selections, etc. This is perfect for apps like Mimi where people can pick the photos they want to upload with minimum friction and with an experience that feels true to iOS. I’m very conscious of privacy in apps, so it gives me great joy to note that with this new picker Mimi will no longer need to ask for Photos permission.

I had planned to enhance the original photo selection screen with new features for better selection, but now I can utilize that time towards other features that folks have requested. Features that I think will be a lot more useful in the long term, like support for the share sheet, and drag and drop, that allows sending photos into Mimi from other apps. And I have more ideas that I hope to share after this initial set of work is complete.

I can’t wait to bring this new experience to you sometime after iOS 14 launches this Fall. I appreciate your support and comments. If you’ve liked using Mimi, I’d love it if you could give it a rating or review on the App Store. Thank you!

Pandemic windstorm afternoon walk.

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Picked a few pears from our tree. Not sure they’re ready. Might wait another week or so to pick more. Will cut these open tomorrow and see.

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A tandoori chicken dinner is a good dinner 😋

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Uh oh, this may lead to a problem 😬

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The garden continues to provide us with good stuff 😋

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Interesting alert when uninstalling Epson printer software. Wasn’t sure if it was referring to Epson’s applications, or to all applications. Turned out, it was the latter. I shouldn’t have to quit other apps for this.

Mr. Momo discovers that ropes are great for climbing and biting.

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1: up 2: floating 3: bug 4: peace 5: flow 6: bisect

7: daytripping 8: view 9: black-and-white 10: windows 11: transport 12: sound

13: filter 14: among 15: silhouette 16: stationary 17: cuddly 18: grid

19: ribbon 20: change 21: crunch 22: home 23: graceful 24: frosty

25: hope 26: relentless 27: overcome 28: emotions 29: flake 30: discovery 31: love

Some notes:

• I constrained myself to photos taken on that day. No digging into the archives.
• A lot of these were taken around the house or the neighborhood, i.e. the pandemic life.
• There was one day where I took a photo but forgot to post and posted the next morning. So there goes my 30 day photo blogging pin on Micro.blog. Again 🤦‍♂️
• Some days I kinda winged it, as can be seen 😬.
• This photo challenge was managed by @macgenie.
• The last one I did was the February photoblogging challenge.

I love that Mr. Momo can make himself cozy on my messy desk and give me company during the workday. #mbaug

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