iPhone Tumblr App 1.1 Finally Available
It looks like the new iPhone Tumblr app version 1.1 is available now on the AppStore. I have already installed it and I’m gonna compare the list of new features with my wishlist.
The first missing feature I’ve noticed is the lack of photo upload for text posts. I still had to rely on the old trick of creating a private Image post and then reference that image from the text post (nb getting the image URI might be quite tricky though)
So, here is a quick status update on the features from my iPhone Tumblr 1.1 app wishlist:
- Custom iPhone bookmarklet that triggers the app: there is a mention of a new bookmarklet for links, but I couldn’t find any additional information. Anyone found anything related to this?
- Multiple drafts and Queueing posts: these features seem to be present in the Tumblr 1.1 version
- Editable access: available in this new version (1.1)
- Sync or Offline mode: not sure this works. Basically it would offer the user the possibility to continue to write posts while the iPhone is not connected and then once online all these updates will be pushed live. There is a mention of “Save for late”, but I’m not sure these are equivalent.
- Multiple photo posts: not supported yet.
- Text entry image support: not supported yet
Bottom line, it looks like most of my bets were correct and the new iPhone Tumblr 1.1 app will offer a better experience for the users.
Update: Related to “Save for late” functionality, it will allow you to create 1 offline post of each type, but there’s no support for multiple offline/temporary posts.
Update: Darn iTunes doesn’t allow me to copy text so here is a screenshot of the iPhone Tumblr 1.1 app release notes
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