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Smart Tide: Tide Chart & Timesv2.0.0

Released September 11, 2026Major

iOS

What changed

  • UXRebranded app from Tide Current to Smart Tide
  • ContentExpanded data coverage to include thousands of stations in the US and Canada
  • UXIntroduced map-based station discovery and improved saved station management
  • UXAdded global unit switching for height, temperature, and wind
  • LocalizationAdded English and French language support and romanized Korean station names
  • UXRestricted surfing alerts to only stations that measure wave data
  • PlatformImproved Live Activities reliability, background refreshing, and manual override handling
  • PlatformFixed Siri integration for US and Canadian tide stations
  • UXRedrawn tide chart with time-of-day background and full-width curve
  • UXImproved nearest-station lookup logic to prevent cross-continent suggestions

Original release notes

Smart Tide goes global, and gets a new name.

NEW NAME
"Tide Current" read as tidal current — the horizontal flow of water, which this app has never claimed to compute. It's Smart Tide now.

NEW: THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Thousands of NOAA and Canadian Hydrographic Service stations join the Korean ones. Pick your source, or search across all of them.

NEW: FIND STATIONS ON A MAP
Station discovery starts from the map instead of a Korea-first list. Saving a station keeps you where you are rather than throwing you to another screen, and your saved stations sit in a row along the top of the map.

NEW: METRES OR FEET
Switch height, temperature and wind units in one place. The app, the widgets, the watch and your alert thresholds all follow.

NEW: KOREAN, ENGLISH AND FRENCH
Fully translated, with Korean station names romanized so they read properly in every language. Regions now say which country they're in — "West Sea" alone was not much help outside Korea.

FIXED: alerts that could never fire
You could set a surfing alert on a station that doesn't measure waves. It would simply stay silent forever. Smart Tide now only offers the alerts a station can actually report, and says why when one isn't available.

FIXED: Live Activities disappearing
One you started by hand would be shut down a moment later by the automatic schedule. It now leaves your manual ones alone, refreshes more reliably in the background, and leads with the next high or low rather than a current height that could go stale.

FIXED: Siri failing on US and Canadian stations
"What's the next high tide?" returned "station not found" for anything outside Korea.

FIXED: long station names breaking the saved list
Names like "Redwood Creek Marker 8" wrapped and squeezed the tide reading onto two lines.

ALSO
A redrawn chart with a full-width curve and a background that follows the time of day. High and low points marked on the Live Activity chart. Confirmation before deleting a station that has alerts attached. Nearest-station lookup no longer suggests a station on another continent.

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